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CSET Spanish Subtest
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CSET Spanish Subtest
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1. IQ tests - force students to converge onto one answer

2. Ability to use particular social strategies to achieve communicative goals - i.e. know when to interrupt - how to initiate conversation

3. Ralph Yarborough introduced Bilingual Education Act as an amendment. Enacted in 1968. Indicated that bilingual programs were part of the federal education system.

4. Requires that language sub skills are repeated until they move from being controlled to automatic; difficult to delete.

5. Two years maximum in mother tongue

6. Individual characteristics affect language input: ability - aptitude - attitude - motivation

7. Simply reading and writing so one can operate in society (usu. low level) - reading and writing seen as separate skills

8. Required that immigrants learn English

9. What is actually assimilated. more important than input

10. Language learner is adapting to new culture - degree to which new language is gained depends on degree to which person integrates self into new culture

11. Language teaching is about conveying meaning - focus on socially appropriate forms of communication; suggests learners need to identify some of their own errors. Implicit rule formation rather than explicit habit

12. Aim is to be bilingual and bicultural without loss of achievement. form depends on when child begins.

13. Literacy: learning to read/write naturally for a purpose - for meaningful communication and for inherent pleasure. Reading and writing seen as connected - demands process of learning is interesting and relevant to student

14. Inner - mental representation of language

15. A language minority separates from the language majority in order to protect their language

16. Hearing/reading a lesson/passage in one language and the development of the work in another. Promotes more thorough understanding

17. Literacy can be used to maintain hegemony/control masses and it can also be a liberator

18. Both languages operate through the same central processing system

19. Goal: assimilation. contain bilingual kids but are barely bilingual in nature

20. Someone who does not have total competency in either language

21. Essentially wanted to end bilingual education - only leaving sheltered English programs. Largely decreased enrollment in bilingual education programs - but still some parents/schools could opt in to bilingual

22. Refers to those people whose experiences are not well represented by their language and therefore have difficulties expressing their thoughts and feelings verbally

23. Ability to communicate accurately in different contexts

24. Foreign words that have become permanent part of recipient language. part of continuum of codeswitching

25. When equal numbers of minority and majority language students are in the same classroom. aim is to produce balanced bilinguals. language compartmentalization