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56.
Use the passage below to answer the question that follows.

He was a hard, stubborn old man. A smile rarely broke through the hard features of his face. He had worked hard all his life, but life had been hard on him. It never gave him a break. He struggled to break the hard ground year after year. He asked the earth to give a little back, but it repeatedly broke his heart. He took it hard.

This passage best illustrates which of the following concepts related to English vocabulary that can pose challenges for English language learners' comprehension and development of communicative language competence?
  1. High-frequency English words often have difficult pronunciations.
  2. English speakers tend to use academic words infrequently in everyday social interactions.
  3. High-frequency English words often have multiple meanings.
  4. English speakers tend to use colloquialisms and figures of speech frequently.
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57.
When working with small groups of English language learners whose first language is Latinate, an ESL teacher has the students work together to develop and maintain a chart of words that are similar in structure and meaning to English words. This activity promotes the students' transfer of vocabulary knowledge from the first language to English primarily by focusing on:
  1. Synonyms
  2. Cognates
  3. Homonyms
  4. Allomorphs
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58.
Which of the following examples provides the strongest support for the theory that all children are born with an innate sense of universal language principles that can be applied to the acquisition of any language?
  1. A child can produce structurally complex novel utterances at a very young age.
  2. A child creates a new language to speak with an imaginary friend.
  3. A child can repeat verbatim the words of songs from favorite television programs.
  4. A child mimics adult speech when playing with other children.
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59.
An ESL teacher is designing a listening lesson for sixth-grade developing-level English language learners. Which of the following guidelines should the teacher follow to align the lesson with the comprehensible input hypothesis?
  1. Use a familiar aural selection appropriate for emerging-level students.
  2. Choose an aural selection that is slightly above the students' comprehension level.
  3. Provide a difficult aural selection along with a written script to which students can refer.
  4. Locate an aural selection that comes with a written translation in the students' first language.
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60.
Which of the following situations best illustrates James Cummins's theory of common underlying proficiency (CUP)?
  1. An English language learner who has knowledge of an academic concept in the first language quickly grasps the concept when it is introduced in English.
  2. English language learners who speak different first languages often make similar errors when learning English.
  3. An English language learner who has advanced proficiency in the first language develops English language proficiency in a relatively short period of time.
  4. English language learners sometimes switch between the first language and English when speaking.
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