Correct Response: B. Approaches to learning and the educational practices that stem from them can vary widely from culture to culture. Given this student's behavior, her home culture likely promotes oral expression in the form of chants and songs as a tool to enhance learning and values physical movement as part of the learning environment. As a newly-arrived English learner, the student is not likely to be aware that culturally determined educational practices in the United States differ from what she has previously experienced. A and C are incorrect because the student has a strong educational background, performs well academically in her new school, and is described as being at the developing level of English language proficiency, rather than at a lower level such as entering or emerging. D would be inappropriate to consider as the first explanation for the student's behavior considering the fact that approaches to learning are culturally determined and that the student is a newcomer to the
U.S. educational system.
