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41.
Research has shown that "voluntary" immigrants (individuals who immigrated in pursuit of a better life) and "involuntary" immigrants (individuals who immigrated against their will or who traditionally lacked opportunities to assimilate into mainstream culture) typically have unequal educational outcomes. An ESL teacher could best use this information to better understand which of the following sociocultural factors related to students' language development and learning?
  1. Mainstream school models and their influence on students' resistance to change.
  2. Power relationships in society and their impact on school achievement.
  3. Undervalued language varieties and their effect on students' school success.
  4. Group motivation and its impact on learning.
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42.
An English language learner is extroverted and enjoys interacting with others. He is not afraid to try to communicate even when he is uncertain of the accuracy of his speech. These personality traits are likely to affect this student's English language acquisition in which of the following ways?
  1. Facilitating language acquisition by supporting his ability to self-monitor his language production and to internalize language rules.
  2. Hindering language acquisition by encouraging the fossilization of nonstandard language forms in his interlanguage development.
  3. Facilitating language acquisition by promoting his willingness to take risks and his motivation to integrate into the new culture.
  4. Hindering language acquisition by creating social distance between him and native English speakers who do not share these traits.
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43.
Which of the following factors is likely to have the most significant impact on the degree to which an English language learner is able to acquire native-like pronunciation in English?
  1. The age at which the student begins learning English.
  2. The amount and type of second-language instruction the student receives.
  3. The grammatical features of the student's first language.
  4. The extent to which the student desires to maintain his or her first language.
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44.
An ESL teacher is co-teaching in an SEI content class that includes English language learners representing a wide range of English proficiency levels. Which of the following instructional practices would likely best promote the oral language development of all students in the class?
  1. Providing students with immediate corrective feedback on their oral language production errors.
  2. Utilizing a range of question types from those that prompt a nonverbal response to those that prompt an elaborate verbal response.
  3. Using natural, rapid speech that contains reduced forms and challenging vocabulary.
  4. Grouping students according to linguistic background and proficiency level for communicative activities.
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45.
Middle school English language learners watch an episode of a popular television program without sound and work in small groups to create scripts of what they think the characters in the episode are saying. Then, students make audio recordings of their scripts to be played along with the video. This activity promotes the students' communicative language competence primarily by:
  1. Prompting their use of cohesive devices to communicate clearly.
  2. Developing their ability to negotiate meaning in a conversation.
  3. Exposing them to a variety of proficient English speakers.
  4. Encouraging their oral language production in a meaningful context.
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