Language Concepts & Acquisition; BICS &
CALP; Theorists Questions And Correct Answers
with Complete Solutions
Semantic Cues - ANSWER = Meaning
[Context Clues - ex. bat (baseball or creature)]
-If student relies primarily on meaning:
support reading strategies that promote looking at letters and sounds.
Syntactic Cues - ANSWER = Structure
[Correct oral language structures]
-If reader relies primarily on structure:
support reading w/ strategies that promote meaning & visual clues.
Graphophonic Cues - ANSWER =Visual
[Development of Words]
-If reader relies primarily on visual cues:
support reading w/ strategies that promote meaning and structure.
, BICS
(Jim Cummings) - ANSWER (Social Language) Basic Interpersonal
Communication
Skills
•Usually attained in 2 yrs.
•Informal
CALP
(Jim Cummings) - ANSWER (Academic Language) Cognitive Academic
Language
Proficiency
•It's 80% of English Language
•Takes students long time to develop (about 5-7 years)
•More abstract
•Related to literacy skills & academic achievement
•Non-interpersonal
•Formal
B.F. Skinner - ANSWER •Behaviorist Theory (Pavlov's Dog)
-How language was taught/used btwn 1900's - 1950
-External Stimuli
•He felt language was learned seeing Actions &
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