ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
A kindergarten classroom contains a center with a "clerk" and a
"customer" area with toy groceries, carts, and a cash register where
students can simulate a grocery store. This most likely facilitates
a) Leaning appropriate formal and language registers
b) Gaining academic language about shopping
c) Acquiring shopping related vocabulary in an unstructured context
d) Practicing past present and future tenses. - ANSWER-C
A student begins a sentence in English, inserts a Spanish phrase, and
then finishes the sentence in English. The student is demonstrating
which of the following language phenomena?
a) Bidialectism
b) Code-switching
c) Language dominance
d) Additive bilingualism - ANSWER-B
Spanish, Vietnamese and English all share the same alphabet however
the corresponding sounds and symbols of Spanish are close to those of
English while those of Vietnamese are closer to French. How would this
situation likely affect the English language development of Vietnamese
and Spanish speakers?
,ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
a) Vietnamese speakers will be more likely than Spanish speakers to
experience problems with false cognates
b) Spanish speakers will acquire written English skills more rapidly than
Vietnamese speakers
c) Spanish speakers will have less difficulty than Vietnamese speakers in
transferring their graphophonics knowledge and skills to English.
d) Literate Vietnamese speakers will develop English literacy at a rate
similar to Spanish speakers who are not literate in their first language -
ANSWER-C
A teacher provides students with comprehensible input in English and
finds ways to lower their affective filters. These are both essential
strategies for developing beginning ELLs:
a) Cognitive academic language proficiency
b) Listening and speaking skills
c) Conceptual development in the primary language
d) Emergent literacy - ANSWER-B
Commissioners Rules - ANSWER-According to the commissioners rules
teachers must support students by addressing their needs:
Affective
Cognitive
,ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
Linguistic
Affective Support - ANSWER-The greatest motivation for any student
to learn a second language is a desire to live in fellowship with those
individuals that speak that language
-Anxiety free learning situation
-Valued native language and culture
-Advocacy for rights
-Opportunities for success
Which of the following is the most effective research based strategy for
using native language in the ESL classroom?
a) Direct or Simultaneous instruction
b) Peer translators
c) Preview/View/Review
d) Bilingual dictionaries - ANSWER-C
Preview/View/Review
(percentages) - ANSWER-Preview:
5% (Native Language)
View:
, ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
90% (Second or target language)
Review:
5% (Native Language)
Cognitive Support - ANSWER-Comprehensible input
Learning and metacognitive strategies
TEKS in English and in content areas
Higher level thinking skills
Linguistic Support - ANSWER-Research-based language instruction
Meaningful interactions with more proficient English speakers
Instruction designed for level proficiency
Explicit vocabulary instruction
ELL Proficiency Stages & key features
Beginning - ANSWER-Little or no ability to understand English in
academic and social settings.
Beginners tend to understand mostly common, everyday words (BICS)
and words that are repeated often in a particular setting.
Intermediate - ANSWER-Limited ability to understand simple, high
frequency spoken English used in routine academic and social settings.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
A kindergarten classroom contains a center with a "clerk" and a
"customer" area with toy groceries, carts, and a cash register where
students can simulate a grocery store. This most likely facilitates
a) Leaning appropriate formal and language registers
b) Gaining academic language about shopping
c) Acquiring shopping related vocabulary in an unstructured context
d) Practicing past present and future tenses. - ANSWER-C
A student begins a sentence in English, inserts a Spanish phrase, and
then finishes the sentence in English. The student is demonstrating
which of the following language phenomena?
a) Bidialectism
b) Code-switching
c) Language dominance
d) Additive bilingualism - ANSWER-B
Spanish, Vietnamese and English all share the same alphabet however
the corresponding sounds and symbols of Spanish are close to those of
English while those of Vietnamese are closer to French. How would this
situation likely affect the English language development of Vietnamese
and Spanish speakers?
,ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
a) Vietnamese speakers will be more likely than Spanish speakers to
experience problems with false cognates
b) Spanish speakers will acquire written English skills more rapidly than
Vietnamese speakers
c) Spanish speakers will have less difficulty than Vietnamese speakers in
transferring their graphophonics knowledge and skills to English.
d) Literate Vietnamese speakers will develop English literacy at a rate
similar to Spanish speakers who are not literate in their first language -
ANSWER-C
A teacher provides students with comprehensible input in English and
finds ways to lower their affective filters. These are both essential
strategies for developing beginning ELLs:
a) Cognitive academic language proficiency
b) Listening and speaking skills
c) Conceptual development in the primary language
d) Emergent literacy - ANSWER-B
Commissioners Rules - ANSWER-According to the commissioners rules
teachers must support students by addressing their needs:
Affective
Cognitive
,ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
Linguistic
Affective Support - ANSWER-The greatest motivation for any student
to learn a second language is a desire to live in fellowship with those
individuals that speak that language
-Anxiety free learning situation
-Valued native language and culture
-Advocacy for rights
-Opportunities for success
Which of the following is the most effective research based strategy for
using native language in the ESL classroom?
a) Direct or Simultaneous instruction
b) Peer translators
c) Preview/View/Review
d) Bilingual dictionaries - ANSWER-C
Preview/View/Review
(percentages) - ANSWER-Preview:
5% (Native Language)
View:
, ESL CERTIFICATION EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
|ALREADY GRADED A+
90% (Second or target language)
Review:
5% (Native Language)
Cognitive Support - ANSWER-Comprehensible input
Learning and metacognitive strategies
TEKS in English and in content areas
Higher level thinking skills
Linguistic Support - ANSWER-Research-based language instruction
Meaningful interactions with more proficient English speakers
Instruction designed for level proficiency
Explicit vocabulary instruction
ELL Proficiency Stages & key features
Beginning - ANSWER-Little or no ability to understand English in
academic and social settings.
Beginners tend to understand mostly common, everyday words (BICS)
and words that are repeated often in a particular setting.
Intermediate - ANSWER-Limited ability to understand simple, high
frequency spoken English used in routine academic and social settings.
