Ceep Final Test Project
Ceep Final Test Project
Ceep Final Test Project
6. Which word describes an understanding of the appropriate use of language to use in social
situations?
a. Pragmatics
b. Syntax
c. Semantics
d. Balrog
7. Which of the following is a Category 2 oral language skill?
a. Decoding sounds
b. Knowing letters have names
c. Storytelling
d. A grasp of a second language
8. What two activities are critical to emergent literary skills?
a. Exposure to baby talk and independent reading
b. Learning to walk and conversations with adults
c. Exposure to baby talk and joint reading
d. Conversations with adults and joint reading
9. What percentage of students who had reading disabilities in early grades still had troubles a
decade later?
a. 10-20 %
b. 40-50 %
c. 70-80 %
d. 100 %
10. In emergent literacy, when the letters and the sounds have consistent, predictable connections
and few exceptions or irregular spellings, which of these is the case?
a. Decoding skills develop more slowly
b. Decoding skills develop more easily
c. Decoding skills are present from birth
d. This has no impact on decoding skill development
11. What percentage of a child's language input must be a second language in order to make it
likely the child will learn the second language?
a. 5 percent
b. 15 percent
c. 25 percent
d. 45 percent
12. What cognitive penalty is there for children who learn and speak two languages?
a. There is a significant cognitive penalty
b. There is a minor cognitive penalty
c. There is a cognitive penalty, but only in students with other developmental issues
d. There is no cognitive penalty
13. Which of the following can halt benefits usually gained from bilingualism in students?
a. When children are expected to abandon their first language
b. When the second language is acquired after the age of five.
c. When there is a negative stigma attached to bilingualism
d. both A and C
14. What is the word for the language spoken by a student at home or in their larger cultural
community, outside of school?
a. Their ancillary language
b. Their proto-language
c. Their mother tongue
d. Their heritage language
15. Which of the following are true of both signed and spoken languages?
a. Each have complex grammar
b. Each must emerge in the child's first year
c. Each have extensive vocabularies
d. both A and C
16. In the US from 1995 to 2005, by roughly what percentage did the number of students
speaking Asian derived languages increase?
a. 10 percent
b. 30 percent
c. 60 percent
d. 100 percent
17. Which of the following is a myth about being bilingual?
a. Children need to use both languages in many contexts
b. Reading is the skill that transfers most readily
c. Reading and speaking in L1 is detrimental to learning L2
d. All these are true
Chapter 8
Match the type of cognitive load with its descriptor:
1. Intrinsic (c)
a. Avoidable or Manageable
2. Extraneous (a)
b. Desirable
3. Germane (b)
c. Unavoidable