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MTEL English as a Second Language - Question List

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16.
Which of the following vocabulary-learning activities most clearly involves metacognition?
  1. Rewriting vocabulary words from a classroom word wall in alphabetical order.
  2. Identifying words that are unfamiliar in a reading passage.
  3. Looking up bolded vocabulary words from a textbook chapter in the book's glossary.
  4. Locating synonyms for a given vocabulary word in the thesaurus.
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17.
Use the exchange below between an ESL teacher and an English language learner to answer the question that follows.

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?
 
  1. Categorization and memorization.
  2. Translation and transfer.
  3. Imagery and representation.
  4. Elaboration and inference.
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18.
An English language learner overgeneralizes the regular past tense marker -ed to irregular verbs, such as saying holded for held. This student is most clearly demonstrating:
  1. The memorization of an incorrect verb form.
  2. The acquisition of a new vocabulary word.
  3. The extension of a known word to a new meaning.
  4. The process of internalizing a grammatical rule.
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19.
An ESL teacher asks an English language learner, "Where is your pencil?" The student replies, "He is on my desk." Which of the following rationales best explains the student's incorrect use of the personal pronoun he to refer to an object?
  1. The student is confusing animate and inanimate objects.
  2. The student speaks a first language in which inanimate objects are marked for gender.
  3. The student is unfamiliar with the word pencil.
  4. The student is overgeneralizing rules for the appropriate use of a pronoun in place of a noun phrase.
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20.
A tenth-grade English language learner is at an advanced stage of English language acquisition. However, the student continues to make certain consistent syntactic errors despite repeated explicit instruction. This phenomenon can best be explained as:
  1. Delay in internalizing prescriptive grammar rules.
  2. Positive transfer from the first language.
  3. Fossilization of interlanguage structures.
  4. Code-switching between two languages.
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