According to research, which of the following is the best practice for dealing with children who use nonstandard English dialects in your classroom?
a. Accept the children's use of dialects without correcting them to prevent feelings of rejection.
b. Accept the children's use of dialects until you think they are comfortable in the class, and from that point on, correct them when their English is nonstandard.
c. Accept the children's use of dialects, and then offer alternatives that are standard English usage.
d. Require correct use of standard English as part of your classroom routines, and reinforce students when they use standard English.
Ques. 2Estella, a native Spanish speaker who is in the first grade, is learning to read in both Spanish and English. Her teacher also teaches science in Spanish part of the time and in English at other times. The EL program she is in is best described as:
a. an immersion program.
b. a functional EL program.
c. a sheltered English program.
d. a maintenance EL program.
Ques. 3Explain the differences between the moral, conventional, and personal domains, and provide an example to illustrate these differences.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4A variation of standard English that is distinct in vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation refers to:
a. an accent.
b. a dialect.
c. a deviation.
d. an inflection.
Ques. 5Bidialecticism is best defined as:
a. the ability to switch back and forth between two forms of a language.
b. the ability to understand two forms of a language.
c. the ability to recognize two forms of a language.
d. the ability to talk in one form of a language but write in another.
Ques. 6The ability to experience the same emotion someone else is feeling is described as:
a. empathy.
b. compassion.
c. distress.
d. guilt.
Ques. 7Your text provides four sequential steps of social problem solving. State each step, and provide an example of the step given a situation where two students want to sit at the same place in the lunchroom.
What will be an ideal response?