ESOL 7
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- Acculturation
- process of adapting effectively to mainstream culture/ maintaining original culture
- Pluralism
- members of diverse cultural groups have equal opportunities for success; similarities and differences are valued
- Accommodation
- both cultures adapt to each other
- CALP
- cognitive academic language proficiency: academic language skills
- BICS
- basic interpersonal communication skills: everyday conversational language skills
- Speech Emergence
- students make more mistakes as they experiment with language
- Enculturation
- process of learning patterns of own culture
- Language Acquisition
- (PESPI) pre-production; early production; speech emergent; intermediate fluency
- Assimilation
- process of absorption into dominant culture/deculturalization from original culture
- Diagnostic Language & Placement Test
- measures mastery of predetermined standards in language, content specifically matched to the curriculum: HS competency for graduation
- Standardized Language Test
- syntax measures, vocabulary tests, reading tests, tests of basic skills
- Biculturalism
- ability to function successfully in two cultures