MTEL- ESL (54) Practice Test
Which of the following examples provides the strongest support for the nativist notion
that all children are born with an
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be applied to the acquisition of any language? - ANS-A child can produce structurally
complex novel utterances at a very young age.
An ESL teacher is designing a listening lesson for 6th grade intermediate-level English
language learners. Which of the following guidelines should the teacher follow in order
to align the lesson with the comprehensible input hypothesis? - ANS-Choose an aural
selection that is slightly above the students' comprehension level.
Which of the following situations best illustrates James Cummin's theory of Common
Underlying Proficiency (CUP)? - ANS-An English language learner who has knowledge
of an academic concept in the 1st language quickly introduced in English.
Which of the following types of instructional activities would be most appropriate for
ELLs at advanced stages of English language development? - ANS-Frequent
opportunities for the student to use English in challenging, authentic situations.
Which of the following utterances would be most typical of an ELL who is in the early
production stage of language acquisition? - ANS-Want crayon.
Which of the following vocabulary-learning activities most clearly involves
metacognition? - ANS-Identifying unfamiliar words in a reading passage.
Student: (pointing to word in a book) What does it mean invisible?
Teacher: Look at the parts of the word.
Student: I know in- means "not" and vis is like "visual," something you see with the
eyes. I remember -ible is like -able, right?
Teacher: Right. Now look at the sentence.
Student: (reading) "The creature was practically invisible, hidden in the dense foliage."
"Hidden" is like to hide. I guess if it is invisible, it means you're not able to see it
because it is hiding.
This student's performance most clearly demonstrates which of the following cognitive
processes involved in language acquisition? - ANS-Elaboration and inference
An ELL overgenerates the regular past tense -ed to irregular verbs, such as holded or
held. This student is most likely demonstrating: - ANS-The process of internalizing a
grammatical rule.
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