Exam 5: Language Development, Language Diversity, and Immigrant Education

Define culture and discuss the issues that prompted belief in the cultural deficit model. What are the prevailing beliefs of educational researchers and theorists today about this issue?

_________ bilingualism refers to adding a second language without losing one's heritage language.

Which of the following most accurately represents research concerning the issue of critical periods for learning language?

What is the average amount of time it takes for a student to master academic language in a second language?

Discuss the benefits of bilingualism as it pertains to heritage languages. Make specific reference to Indigenous languages in Canada in your answer.

Individuals who speak only one language are referred to as ________.

Mrs. O'Connor teaches middle school in a school where many students in her class speak dialects rather than formal English. Describe appropriate attitudes and approaches for teaching these students effectively.

Daniela is in the first grade. Her family left Mexico and moved to Vancouver one year ago. Daniela is having difficulty learning to speak and read in English. Based on bilingual emergent literacy research, what should her teachers prioritize to help Daniela at this stage of literacy?

Which of the following is the best recommendation for a teacher who has a student who speaks using a different dialect?

"The toy is broked" is an example of overregularizing.

Critical periods and sensitive periods are synonymous terms in reference to language acquisition.

Identifying students who have a learning disability or students who have giftedness can be very difficult when the students do not speak English. Describe steps teachers might take to identify each of these groups of students before referring them.

How to enter a conversation or how to tell jokes are examples of semantics.

A person who is capable of communicating both in a spoken language and a signed language are considered to be _____________.

Colton is almost four years old and has an expressive vocabulary of about 1000 words. Based on milestones in early childhood language, what should Colton's parents be doing to encourage Colton's language development

Scott, who is a grade 12 student and a native English speaker, is starting to learn French. According to the text, which activity will likely be the most difficult for him to successfully engage in?

The assumption that students' home culture is inferior because it has not prepared them to fit well into schools is called the ________ model.

Which of the following situations is an example of subtractive bilingualism?

Metalinguistic awareness begins to develop at about the age of puberty.

Researchers have found the best time for one to learn a second language on one's own is