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A teacher notices that an ELL student avoids making eye contact with adults and rarely volunteers answers, even when she clearly knows the material. The most culturally responsive first interpretation is that:

Culture As A Factor In Ell Learning

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Which concept best describes the process by which an immigrant student gradually adopts aspects of the new culture while retaining elements of the home culture?

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An ELL who recently arrived appears withdrawn, tired, and uninterested several weeks into the school year after an initially enthusiastic start. This pattern is most consistent with:

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A teacher wants to make the classroom more culturally inclusive. Which action best reflects an additive, asset-based approach?

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The tendency to judge another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture is called:

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Which classroom practice most directly helps reduce the cultural mismatch that can disadvantage ELLs during instruction?

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A counselor schedules a parent conference and the family brings an older sibling to interpret. The ESOL teacher's most appropriate professional response is to:

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Which statement best reflects the relationship between culture and language for ELLs?

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Which is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning in a language?

Language As A System

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The word 'unhappiness' contains how many morphemes?

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In the sentence 'The teacher gave the students the books,' the study of how the phrase order and structure convey grammatical relationships is part of:

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A student says 'Can you pass the salt?' at dinner and the listener understands it as a request, not a yes/no question. The branch of linguistics that explains this is:

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An ELL whose first language has no /θ/ sound (as in 'think') often pronounces it as /t/ or /s/. This is best explained by:

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The relationship between 'big' and 'large' is best described as:

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Which pair represents an inflectional morpheme rather than a derivational one?

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An ELL writes 'She no like the movie.' From an interlanguage perspective, the teacher should recognize this as:

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Which of the following is an example of pragmatic competence in English?

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The English plural endings in 'cats' /s/, 'dogs' /z/, and 'horses' /ɪz/ are examples of:

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A sentence that is grammatically well-formed but semantically odd, such as 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously,' best illustrates that:

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Which is the best classroom strategy for helping ELLs acquire English phonological awareness without overemphasizing accent reduction?

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According to Krashen's Input Hypothesis, language acquisition occurs most effectively when learners receive input that is: