Bilingual Education Quiz

What is the level of regard normally accorded to a specific language or dialect within a speech community?

• Language Performance

• Language Achievement

• Prestige

• Language Competence

What is the inner, mental representation of language called?

• Emerging Bilingual

• Dual Language Instruction

• Language Achievement

• Language Competence

What is the term for a person who has proficiency in two languages such that his or her skills in each language match those of a native speaker of the same age?

• Bridging Bilingual

• Transitional-bilingual education

• Bilingual

• Balanced

What is the term for the outward evidence of language competence?

• Prestige

• Language Competence

• Language Achievement

• Language Performance

What is the outcome of formal instruction in language called?

• Prestige

• Language Competence

• Language Achievement

• Language Performance

What is the term for a program designed to allow English learners to achieve long-term academic success through English-medium instruction in general education classrooms?

• Language Achievement

• One-way immersion

• Transitional-bilingual education

• Dual Language Instruction

What is the term for a student who progresses very quickly, learns to use English for immediate needs, and begins to understand and use academic language for the grade level?

• Expanding Bilingual

• Transitional-bilingual education

• Emerging Bilingual

• Bridging Bilingual

What is the term for a student who uses their growing language skills in more advanced ways that are appropriate to their age and grade level?

• Emerging Bilingual

• Expanding Bilingual

• Transitional-bilingual education

• Bridging Bilingual

What is the term for a program where 100% of the students are from the language group being taught?

• Transitional-bilingual education

• Dual Language Instruction

• Two-way immersion

• One-way immersion

What is the term for a program where both groups of students (each with different home languages) learn together so that both groups become bilingual and biliterate?

• Transitional-bilingual education

• Dual Language Instruction

• Two-way immersion

• One-way immersion