ELO1 - Subject Specific Pedagogy Flashcards
What is the role of the teacher in the Communicative Approach?
Choose 1 answer
To act as an advisor by encouraging communication and answering questions
What is consistent with the Natural Approach to language learning?
Language learners must receive comprehensible input to advance.
What is an example of an integrated learning activity in content-based instruction?
The teacher reads portions of The Indian in the Cupboard to the class, and then the students research web sites and books to design a replica of the Indian’s home.
Which lesson for high school ELLs uses integrated learning activities?
Students write a paragraph about their career goals, then trade papers with a partner. Each student orally summarizes his/her partner’s paper.
Asking ELLs to do which activity would help them to practice speaking in a specific register?
Give directions to a small child about how to make a paper airplane.
In which situation would two spoken registers be utilized?
Speaking with your student and speaking with your friend
An ELL teacher wants to use a listening strategy that will involve the students’ prior knowledge in understanding oral language.
Which approach should the teacher use?
Top-down processing approach
Listening closely to instructions during a first driving lesson is an example of which type of listening function?
Transactional
What should the teacher do to expose new ELLs to the many uses of print around them?
Label different kinds of items in the room.
Which activity utilizes the language experience approach?
Having students tell stories and read transcripts of these stories.
A beginning ELL teacher is teaching students about animals in science class. The teacher brings to the classroom a collection of books, audio materials, videos, and pictures about various animals.
The experienced ELL teacher should advise what?
This will provide a variety of support and access to the content through a variety of resources.
An ELL teacher explains and models effective comprehension strategies that focus on what a text might mean and how students come to understand the information in the text.
This is consistent with which approach?
Transactional strategies instruction
ELL teachers should motivate students to carefully read texts which require the student to demonstrate good understanding of details in the text, to learn information from it, and to use that information for other tasks.
Which activity fosters careful reading for understanding?
Listing examples that appear in the text, adding other pertinent examples to the list, and explaining one’s reasons for doing so
The ELL teacher wants to support ELLs in developing English writing skills.
What is an example of a technique for generating ideas prior to beginning to write?
Brainstorming
What is a likely topic for a “rhetorical pattern” essay?
Compare and contrast one culture with another culture.
ELLs are asked to read a new book each month. The teacher puts up a new list of vocabulary from each book on the word wall for reference.
Considering individual needs, an excellent way to develop a student’s thematic learning of vocabulary is through _____.
Vocabulary notebooks
Why is ongoing authentic assessment important in the ELL classroom?
To provide students with information on how they are doing
If teachers use many idiomatic expressions in the classroom, then ELLs might _____.
Get confused with language they do not understand
An ELL teacher wants to introduce idioms to a group of ELLs.
This is important because idioms are _____.
Commonly occurring multi-word units in English
An ELL teacher structures a pre-writing lesson in which students of varying levels of language proficiency are placed in groups of four. The teacher gives each group a set of pictures portraying people working together. Students are asked to look at the pictures and talk about what is happening, eventually developing a short story.
Why does the teacher use this type of lesson?
The teacher is attempting to encourage students to think cooperatively rather than competitively to reach a goal.
What is one important benefit of cooperative learning in the ELL classroom?
Teachers can circulate and conduct informal assessments.
A fourth-grade teacher is concerned because a new ELL has been in the class for two weeks and will not yet respond to questions.
The ELL specialist suggests that _____.
The student is probably still in the early silent stage of language development and is developing listening skills
ELLs will feel comfortable and welcome in a classroom where _____.
Students are allowed to work collaboratively
A new teacher is developing a lesson to teach ELLs reading strategies.
What should the teacher know about the students’ literacy backgrounds in their L1s?
There is a strong relationship between students’ literacy in their L1s and language learning in the L2.
When ELLs have a homework assignment to read an entire textbook chapter, the first step they should take is _____.
Preview the pictures and headings in the chapter to activate knowledge they already have about the topic
High School ELLs with intermediate English fluency might be taught the rules of cognates as a way to improve their _____.
Vocabulary
The incorporation of material that is culturally familiar to ELLs and that might activate schemata is known as the _____ approach.
Socio-psycholinguistic
A teacher is working with students who have mastered basic interpersonal communication skills.
What should the teacher do next?
Focus on introducing academic language tasks needed at their level
When a teacher uses realia, repetition, change in speech, and multiple resources to help students access demanding concepts, this is called _____.
Sheltered English instruction
Which lesson indicates the use of differentiated instruction?
A teacher uses direct instruction to begin a lesson, followed by graphic organizers and a cooperative learning activity.
Differentiated instruction _____.
Allows for the different language needs and learning styles of the students
