TEXES 164 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
An emphasis on using individual syllables ✔✔A primary difference between English literacy
skill development and Spanish literacy skill development is that Spanish literacy involves
Culture maintanance ✔✔To maintain the culture identity of ELL´s it is important to read english
version stories, folk-tales, and other narratives from student´s home cultures to valitate and
affirm those cultures.
Canadian Language inmmersion programs ✔✔Designed for both English speakers and English
language learners (e.g. French Students).
Additive Bilingual Programs ✔✔The main goal is reinforce and continue the cognitive growth in
L1 to enhance student learning and as well reinforce development in L2.
Instruction in Language arts and content area ✔✔Should be instructed in L1 and L2 at least 6
consecutive years to improve ELL´s chances of achieving academic parity with NSL´s.
,Reciprocal Teaching ✔✔It is an instructional activity where students and teacher engage in a
dialogue about the class content
Summarizing Reciprocal ✔✔teaching strategies where students present the main content in their
own words.
Clarifiying ✔✔Reciprocal teaching strategy where students identify specific parts of a text to
create comprehensive problems related to vocabulary, expressions, and concepts. For seeking
support, questioning and using reference materials to be sure of understanding the content.
Predicting ✔✔Reciprocal teaching strategy to predict the content based on prior knowledge and
knowledge they have accumulated on the lesson. Then students read or participate in an activity
to verify if their prediction is accurate and to lik new knowledge with the prior knowledge.
Concurrent Approach ✔✔Both languages are used for instruction. It is required special skills
from the teacher to dominate the instruction and strong knowledge of the curriculum. *It is is
strange used to delive content in modern dual language programs or BE.
Language ✔✔Language is a system composed by sub- systems
,Language sub-systems ✔✔Phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics, discourse, and
pragmatics.
Semantics literal meaning ✔✔Denotation
Semantics implied meaning ✔✔Conotation
Phonolgy ✔✔Study of the sound system in language
Phoneme ✔✔Basic unit of the sound that distinguish one word from another. In English there are
44 phonemes.
Graphemes ✔✔Printed letter symbol used to represent a speech sound (phoneme). In English
there are 26 graphemes (letters).
English ✔✔Grapheme-phoneme is inconsistent because it has many consonant digraphs.
, Digraphs ✔✔Two or more otters representing one sound. E.g. Gh - ghost, kn- know, rh - rhythm,
sc - scene
Spanish ✔✔Grapheme-phoneme correspondence is very consistent. It has 26 graphemes to
represent 25 or 27 phonemes.
Morphology ✔✔The study of the structure of words or word formation.
Morpheme ✔✔The smallest meaningful unit of language (cat there phonemes c/a/t).
Derivational morpheme ✔✔Can (but may not) change the syntactic classification by using
affixes (from adjective to an adverb).
Affix ✔✔An structural element added to the beginning or ending of a word in order to alter the
meaning, pronunciation, or function. (e.g. Suffixes and prefixes).
Inflectional morphemes ✔✔Do not change the syntactic classification and typically follows
derivational morphemes. They go always at the end of a word.
100% Pass
An emphasis on using individual syllables ✔✔A primary difference between English literacy
skill development and Spanish literacy skill development is that Spanish literacy involves
Culture maintanance ✔✔To maintain the culture identity of ELL´s it is important to read english
version stories, folk-tales, and other narratives from student´s home cultures to valitate and
affirm those cultures.
Canadian Language inmmersion programs ✔✔Designed for both English speakers and English
language learners (e.g. French Students).
Additive Bilingual Programs ✔✔The main goal is reinforce and continue the cognitive growth in
L1 to enhance student learning and as well reinforce development in L2.
Instruction in Language arts and content area ✔✔Should be instructed in L1 and L2 at least 6
consecutive years to improve ELL´s chances of achieving academic parity with NSL´s.
,Reciprocal Teaching ✔✔It is an instructional activity where students and teacher engage in a
dialogue about the class content
Summarizing Reciprocal ✔✔teaching strategies where students present the main content in their
own words.
Clarifiying ✔✔Reciprocal teaching strategy where students identify specific parts of a text to
create comprehensive problems related to vocabulary, expressions, and concepts. For seeking
support, questioning and using reference materials to be sure of understanding the content.
Predicting ✔✔Reciprocal teaching strategy to predict the content based on prior knowledge and
knowledge they have accumulated on the lesson. Then students read or participate in an activity
to verify if their prediction is accurate and to lik new knowledge with the prior knowledge.
Concurrent Approach ✔✔Both languages are used for instruction. It is required special skills
from the teacher to dominate the instruction and strong knowledge of the curriculum. *It is is
strange used to delive content in modern dual language programs or BE.
Language ✔✔Language is a system composed by sub- systems
,Language sub-systems ✔✔Phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics, discourse, and
pragmatics.
Semantics literal meaning ✔✔Denotation
Semantics implied meaning ✔✔Conotation
Phonolgy ✔✔Study of the sound system in language
Phoneme ✔✔Basic unit of the sound that distinguish one word from another. In English there are
44 phonemes.
Graphemes ✔✔Printed letter symbol used to represent a speech sound (phoneme). In English
there are 26 graphemes (letters).
English ✔✔Grapheme-phoneme is inconsistent because it has many consonant digraphs.
, Digraphs ✔✔Two or more otters representing one sound. E.g. Gh - ghost, kn- know, rh - rhythm,
sc - scene
Spanish ✔✔Grapheme-phoneme correspondence is very consistent. It has 26 graphemes to
represent 25 or 27 phonemes.
Morphology ✔✔The study of the structure of words or word formation.
Morpheme ✔✔The smallest meaningful unit of language (cat there phonemes c/a/t).
Derivational morpheme ✔✔Can (but may not) change the syntactic classification by using
affixes (from adjective to an adverb).
Affix ✔✔An structural element added to the beginning or ending of a word in order to alter the
meaning, pronunciation, or function. (e.g. Suffixes and prefixes).
Inflectional morphemes ✔✔Do not change the syntactic classification and typically follows
derivational morphemes. They go always at the end of a word.
