EXAM 2 Review

Question 1

Define Bilingual Education of Act of 1968

Answer 1

Provide federal funding for innovative education programs for students with limited proficiency

Question 2

Define Oakland Unified School Board Resolution

Answer 2

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Question 3

Define Proposition 227

Answer 3

Federal fund program to teach only ‘English’ to kids, leaving bilingual teaching behind and saving $50 million to teach adults

Question 4

Define Lau vs. Nichols

Answer 4

A suit claiming Chinese children were being denied equal education in SF School district. This resulted in the creation of special programs regardless of funding.

Question 5

Define English Immersion

Answer 5

Being put in an education environment that primarily teaches subjects in English ‘ Sink or Swim’

Question 6

Define Sheltered English

Answer 6

Teaching subjects in English, but using primary language for education

Question 7

Define Transitional

Answer 7

Teaching subjects in primary language for a certain amount of time and eventually learning subjects in English

Question 8

Define Dual Immersion/ Two-Way Bilingual

Answer 8

Using both English and primary language to teach different subjects

Question 9

Define Pidgin

Answer 9

Language developed as means of communication between (2) or more speakers in simplified forms

Question 10

Define Creole

Answer 10

Linguistic expansion over generations from an existing pidgin

Question 11

Define Dialect

Answer 11

Mutually intelligible form of language that differs in systematic ways

Question 12

Define Langauge

Answer 12

Written or spoken method of communication