ELL Final UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following recommendations about getting familiar with your second language
students is not made by your text?
a. Find out what language is spoken in the student's home;
b. Get as much information as you can about the student's previous schooling;
c. Become aware of basic features of the student's culture;
d. Send home a survey for parents to fill out. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Which of the following is not a recommended way to get to know a student?
a. Have students write an illustrated autobiography.
b. Have students keep a dialogue journal;
c. Do a unit on family origins;
d. Have students prepare a formal talk to be given in the front of the classroom. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Which of the following are key aspects of a culture?
a. Family structures, life cycles, roles and interpersonal relationships,
b. Ideas about discipline, use of time and space; religion;
c. Food, health and hygiene practices, history and traditions;
d. All of the above. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Cultural rules governing sociolinguistic interactions include:
a. When to speak and when to remain silent
b. Who has the right to initiate a conversation
c. Wait time between conversational turns
d. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Participation structures in the classroom relates to:
a. The organization of groups with corresponding rules for talking and listening
,b. How students participate in activities outside the classroom
c. Whether students are motivated by the way the classroom is organized
d. Whether there is a balance between large and small groups in the classroom - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔a.
One of the best ways you can help a new second language learner in your classroom is to
a. Study foods and holidays from their country
b. Study subjects that will be easy for the student
c. Create a secure classroom where the student feels he/she belongs
d. Make sure the student works in groups - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔c.
One main purpose of bilingual programs is to:
a. assist students with learning content in their own language until they are proficient enough
in English to learn well in the regular classroom;
b. help second language learners learn content;
c. put off the time students will have to function in their home classroom
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a.
Communicative competence is often used instead of language proficiency to:
a. describe how people communicate with one another in particular social situations;
b. emphasize not only grammatical forms but also language functions and social conventions
of language use
c. show how speakers choose wording to suit their communicative purpose
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Language acquisition refers to:
a. how students use language in our classrooms
b. how children interact with their caregivers
c. how children and others acquire language
d. how we use language in social situations - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔c.
, One of the main problems with behaviorist theories of language acquisition is that:
a. they can't account for children's original utterances, utterances they couldn't ever have
heard themselves
b. they can't account for overgeneralizations children make
c. they can't account for original word orders in children's utterances
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
From an innatist perspective children:
a. model sentences they have heard parents or other caregivers use
b. imitate what they have heard around them and create original utterances
c. don't use grammar to inform their utterances
d. construct grammar through a process of hypothesis testing - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Chomsky's innatist view of language acquisition has been criticized because it:
a. is too dismissive of the ways that mothers and caregivers help infants acquire language;
b. focuses primarily on language learning in preschool;
c. posits imitation as the main variable in language acquisition
d. suggests that infants are passive receivers of language - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a.
According to the interactionist theory of language acquisition:
a. imitation plays a major role in assisting children in language acquisition;
b. caregivers play a minor role in assisting children in language acquisition;
c. caregivers play a critical role by adjusting language to facilitate the use of innate capacities
children have for language acquisition;
d. children will acquire language even if they have no interaction with caregivers. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔c.
Behaviorists in studying language mainly focus on:
a. conversations between the child and caregiver, including caregiver speech;
b. the child's development of syntax as they acquire a language;
c. the child's verbal behaviors as responses to stimuli in the environment
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following recommendations about getting familiar with your second language
students is not made by your text?
a. Find out what language is spoken in the student's home;
b. Get as much information as you can about the student's previous schooling;
c. Become aware of basic features of the student's culture;
d. Send home a survey for parents to fill out. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Which of the following is not a recommended way to get to know a student?
a. Have students write an illustrated autobiography.
b. Have students keep a dialogue journal;
c. Do a unit on family origins;
d. Have students prepare a formal talk to be given in the front of the classroom. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Which of the following are key aspects of a culture?
a. Family structures, life cycles, roles and interpersonal relationships,
b. Ideas about discipline, use of time and space; religion;
c. Food, health and hygiene practices, history and traditions;
d. All of the above. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Cultural rules governing sociolinguistic interactions include:
a. When to speak and when to remain silent
b. Who has the right to initiate a conversation
c. Wait time between conversational turns
d. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Participation structures in the classroom relates to:
a. The organization of groups with corresponding rules for talking and listening
,b. How students participate in activities outside the classroom
c. Whether students are motivated by the way the classroom is organized
d. Whether there is a balance between large and small groups in the classroom - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔a.
One of the best ways you can help a new second language learner in your classroom is to
a. Study foods and holidays from their country
b. Study subjects that will be easy for the student
c. Create a secure classroom where the student feels he/she belongs
d. Make sure the student works in groups - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔c.
One main purpose of bilingual programs is to:
a. assist students with learning content in their own language until they are proficient enough
in English to learn well in the regular classroom;
b. help second language learners learn content;
c. put off the time students will have to function in their home classroom
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a.
Communicative competence is often used instead of language proficiency to:
a. describe how people communicate with one another in particular social situations;
b. emphasize not only grammatical forms but also language functions and social conventions
of language use
c. show how speakers choose wording to suit their communicative purpose
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Language acquisition refers to:
a. how students use language in our classrooms
b. how children interact with their caregivers
c. how children and others acquire language
d. how we use language in social situations - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔c.
, One of the main problems with behaviorist theories of language acquisition is that:
a. they can't account for children's original utterances, utterances they couldn't ever have
heard themselves
b. they can't account for overgeneralizations children make
c. they can't account for original word orders in children's utterances
d. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
From an innatist perspective children:
a. model sentences they have heard parents or other caregivers use
b. imitate what they have heard around them and create original utterances
c. don't use grammar to inform their utterances
d. construct grammar through a process of hypothesis testing - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d.
Chomsky's innatist view of language acquisition has been criticized because it:
a. is too dismissive of the ways that mothers and caregivers help infants acquire language;
b. focuses primarily on language learning in preschool;
c. posits imitation as the main variable in language acquisition
d. suggests that infants are passive receivers of language - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a.
According to the interactionist theory of language acquisition:
a. imitation plays a major role in assisting children in language acquisition;
b. caregivers play a minor role in assisting children in language acquisition;
c. caregivers play a critical role by adjusting language to facilitate the use of innate capacities
children have for language acquisition;
d. children will acquire language even if they have no interaction with caregivers. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔c.
Behaviorists in studying language mainly focus on:
a. conversations between the child and caregiver, including caregiver speech;
b. the child's development of syntax as they acquire a language;
c. the child's verbal behaviors as responses to stimuli in the environment
