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CSET SUBTEST IV – WORLD LANGUAGE
EXAM 2025 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM WITH
CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
Fourteen Amendment - correct answer- Established the
constitutional basis for the educational rights of language
minority students.
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 - correct answer- Ordered
desegregation of schools. Established the principle of equal
educational opportunity for all students.
Mendez vs. Westminster (preceded Brown by 9 years) - correct
answer- Ended segregation of Mexican and Mexican American
students in Orange County.
Title VI Civil Rights Act, 1964 - correct answer- Prohibited
discrimination in federally funded programs. Established the
principle of equal opportunity for national origin minority groups.
Bilingual Education Acts of 1968 & 1974. Also Title VII.
(Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Ed. Act, 1974) - correct
answer- Provided supplemental funding for schools to meet
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special educational needs of LEP students. Didn't specify
methods of instruction.
Established transitional bilingual educ. programs to meet the
needs of LEP students. Program requirements follow federal
guidelines for identification, program placement, and
reclassification of students as FEP.
May 25, 1970 Memorandum - correct answer- Prohibited the
denial of access to educational programs because of a
student's limited English proficiency.
Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 1974 - correct answer-
Provided definition of what constituted denial of equal
educational opportunity.
Lau vs. Nichols, 1970 - correct answer- Chinese student
against San Francisco SD, states that students didn't receive
equal education when taught in language they didn't
understand. Result: Requires SD to provide equal access to the
core curriculum for students whose primary language is not
English.
Castaneda vs. Pickard, 1981 - correct answer- Set the
standards for the courts in examining programs for LEP
students. To comply with federal law, local SD must have: a
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pedagogical plan for LEP students, sufficient qualified staff to
implement the plan, and a system established to evaluate the
program. Required to take appropriate action to overcome
language barriers.
Bilingual Education Act, 1981 - correct answer- Strengthened
the obligations of SD to LEP.
Proposition 227, 1998 - correct answer- Required SD to
dismantle transitional bilingual programs that taught students
literacy skills and academic content to LEP students in their L1
while they learned English. However, it had a provision allowing
parents to apply for waivers allowing students to continue in Bil.
Educ. under certain specified conditions.
Williams vs. State of CA, 2000-2004 - correct answer-
Provisions that stated better bilingual education instruction was
needed. State settled and is making change throughout the
state.
Separate Underlying Proficiency Theory (SUP) - correct
answer- States that L1 proficiency and L2 proficiency are
separate and not connected at all. Assumes that skills &
content in L1 don't transfer to L2.
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Common Underlying Proficiency Theory (CUP) - correct
answer- Indicates that a child acquires a set of skills and
implicit metalinguistic knowledge that can be drawn upon when
working in another language. Students are learning concepts
as they're learning L1, and those concepts are transferable to
L2. L1 and L2 are interdependent.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) - correct
answer- The universal aspects of language proficiency required
for all native speakers of a language to communicate
successfully.
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) - correct
answer- Refers to language skills associated with literacy and
cognitive development learned through formal instruction.
Bilingual Education - correct answer- Instruction in 2 languages
for any part of or all of the school curriculum.
Bilingual Bi-cultural Education - correct answer- Broader scope
program as a total educational approach for developing
bilingualism in all American children and for nurturing the
linguistic resources already possessed by language minorities.
CSET SUBTEST IV – WORLD LANGUAGE
EXAM 2025 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM WITH
CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
Fourteen Amendment - correct answer- Established the
constitutional basis for the educational rights of language
minority students.
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 - correct answer- Ordered
desegregation of schools. Established the principle of equal
educational opportunity for all students.
Mendez vs. Westminster (preceded Brown by 9 years) - correct
answer- Ended segregation of Mexican and Mexican American
students in Orange County.
Title VI Civil Rights Act, 1964 - correct answer- Prohibited
discrimination in federally funded programs. Established the
principle of equal opportunity for national origin minority groups.
Bilingual Education Acts of 1968 & 1974. Also Title VII.
(Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Ed. Act, 1974) - correct
answer- Provided supplemental funding for schools to meet
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special educational needs of LEP students. Didn't specify
methods of instruction.
Established transitional bilingual educ. programs to meet the
needs of LEP students. Program requirements follow federal
guidelines for identification, program placement, and
reclassification of students as FEP.
May 25, 1970 Memorandum - correct answer- Prohibited the
denial of access to educational programs because of a
student's limited English proficiency.
Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 1974 - correct answer-
Provided definition of what constituted denial of equal
educational opportunity.
Lau vs. Nichols, 1970 - correct answer- Chinese student
against San Francisco SD, states that students didn't receive
equal education when taught in language they didn't
understand. Result: Requires SD to provide equal access to the
core curriculum for students whose primary language is not
English.
Castaneda vs. Pickard, 1981 - correct answer- Set the
standards for the courts in examining programs for LEP
students. To comply with federal law, local SD must have: a
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pedagogical plan for LEP students, sufficient qualified staff to
implement the plan, and a system established to evaluate the
program. Required to take appropriate action to overcome
language barriers.
Bilingual Education Act, 1981 - correct answer- Strengthened
the obligations of SD to LEP.
Proposition 227, 1998 - correct answer- Required SD to
dismantle transitional bilingual programs that taught students
literacy skills and academic content to LEP students in their L1
while they learned English. However, it had a provision allowing
parents to apply for waivers allowing students to continue in Bil.
Educ. under certain specified conditions.
Williams vs. State of CA, 2000-2004 - correct answer-
Provisions that stated better bilingual education instruction was
needed. State settled and is making change throughout the
state.
Separate Underlying Proficiency Theory (SUP) - correct
answer- States that L1 proficiency and L2 proficiency are
separate and not connected at all. Assumes that skills &
content in L1 don't transfer to L2.
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Common Underlying Proficiency Theory (CUP) - correct
answer- Indicates that a child acquires a set of skills and
implicit metalinguistic knowledge that can be drawn upon when
working in another language. Students are learning concepts
as they're learning L1, and those concepts are transferable to
L2. L1 and L2 are interdependent.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) - correct
answer- The universal aspects of language proficiency required
for all native speakers of a language to communicate
successfully.
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) - correct
answer- Refers to language skills associated with literacy and
cognitive development learned through formal instruction.
Bilingual Education - correct answer- Instruction in 2 languages
for any part of or all of the school curriculum.
Bilingual Bi-cultural Education - correct answer- Broader scope
program as a total educational approach for developing
bilingualism in all American children and for nurturing the
linguistic resources already possessed by language minorities.
