1. Cooperative Learning is a teaching approach that combines students at varying scholastic levels and with various learning styles into small groups for learning activities that encourage interaction. All students have ample opportunity to speak, and groups foster a sense of mutual respect. Additionally, students at different levels and with different learning styles observe one another and expand their learning skills and strategies. This approach is most effective when:

2. Two teachers are discussing a student with whom they both work with. The term 'communicative competence' comes up. What aspect of the student's development are the teachers discussing?

3. When does special education law apply to LEPs?

4. ESL requires students 'to listen attentively and engage actively in a variety of oral language experiences.' Specifically, second language learners are, at the appropriate English proficiency level, expected to know whether to listen for information, understanding, or enjoyment; respond to questions and directions; participate in classroom discussions, songs, rhymes, and other language play; and:

5. What are the characteristics of an additive educational program?

6. What is the BSM, and what is it designed to establish?

7. How can a teacher best simplify a text for ELLs at the beginning and intermediate stages?

8. Which of the following classroom practices is least effective with regards to second language acquisition:

9. What is one difference between ESL and bilingual models?

10. Realia means:

11. Which of the following statements is true?

12. A teacher has decided to incorporate Total Physical Response strategies into her classroom instruction. She will:

13. Research indicates that the Silent/Receptive stage of second language acquisition typically lasts up to _______, during which time a learner understands and can respond to roughly __________ words.

14. A student whose L1 is Basque is displaying certain problems. The ESL teacher is uncertain whether he has one or more learning disabilities or if it could be a problem with his language development. She is uncertain what to do. She knows that if she refers him for assessment, he might be inaccurately labeled as learning impaired and placed in a special education class. If his problems are language-based, such a move could be detrimental. She knows that there are no assessments available in Basque in her district, and she feels strongly that he needs to be presented with certain questions and allowed to answer in his own words before a decision is made. The boy's adult aunt, a fluent English speaker and the teacher's neighbor and friend, has offered to help as an informal translator. Is this a suitable fix?

15. The ESL teacher is fit to be tied. At the first parent-teacher conference, she clearly informed Hector's mother that her son lacked manners and was lazy and self-centered. She gave his mother the assignment of reviewing all school work to make certain it had been done—and done correctly. She conducted the conference in Spanish, because she wanted to be certain Hector's mother, who is Venezuelan, understood her. Hector continues to arrive at school with an empty book bag or with homework that has been incorrectly and hastily done. Furthermore, Hector's mother failed to show up at the last conference, calling to say she had to take an extra shift at work. What should the teacher do about this frustrating situation?

16. In 1981 the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a 1978 federal ruling in the case of Castaneda v. Pickard. As a result, a three-pronged assessment was established to ensure that bilingual programs met requirements established by what act?

17. CBEC stands for:

18. A teacher's third grade class includes students from Costa Rica, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Korea, Vietnam, India, Iraq, and the United States. Over the course of several months, the class has explored the cultures of each country. The teacher has been careful to include lessons that demonstrate how different cultures have different values and beliefs about behavior, relationships, religion, and education. She has placed each of her students in small, homogeneous groups and asked them to create some kind of presentation that will teach the class about different cultural expectations and the emotions that can arise when there is cultural confusion. Of the following presentations, which is most likely to be the most effective?

19. Because the United States began as a melting pot of people from many different nationalities and ethnic groups, bilingual communities and education were a matter of course. It was essential for business people who served members of a particular culture to know that language, and immigrant children who did not speak English were often taught in their language of origin. By WWI, the United States began to develop a strong sense of itself as a nation, and English emerged as the 'national' language. Non-English-speaking children were no longer taught in any language other than English. When did this trend begin to reverse, and why?

20. A classroom teacher with several mainstreamed ESL students is frustrated. She has noted that few of their parents come to parent-teacher conferences, and those who do, come inconsistently and have little to say. She is aware that many of them have limited English skills, and also that several have very young children at home. What can she do to encourage the parents to increase their participation in their children's education?

21. The Reading Proficiency Tests in English (RPTE) is used for _______ students in grades____________

22. Is acculturation or assimilation more likely to produce second language learners who are successful at both BICS and CALP thresholds?

23. Many times, ESL teachers must simplify a text so that students will be able to understand the ideas. Why is it important that the language be simplified by substituting common words for more abstract ones, by shortening sentences or turning a long sentence into two or three simple ones, or by deleting unnecessary information while modifying the concepts and ideas as little as possible?

24. TPR stands for:

25. The teacher is working with a group of ESL students who are at the Speech Emergence stage. She is careful to speak slowly and repeat essential vocabulary, uses gesture to reinforce her instruction, and gives students questions to use when interviewing one another for a writing project. The likely outcome is: