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AI for English Language Learners Quiz
Tests the BICS and CALP distinction, the translate-then-English pattern for avoiding dependency, and how recasting works in conversation practice.
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What did the Supreme Court hold in Lau v. Nichols (1974)?
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- What did the Supreme Court hold in Lau v. Nichols (1974)?
- Schools must teach only in English
- Giving non-English-speaking students the same materials without language support did not provide equal educational opportunity
- English learners must attend separate schools
- States may not fund bilingual programs
- What does Cummins's BICS and CALP distinction describe?
- Two types of translation software
- Spoken versus written grammar rules
- Conversational English usually develops faster than academic language
- Two state testing programs
- Which pattern best prevents dependency on translation tools?
- Translate for access, then process in English, reducing translation over time
- Translate every assignment permanently
- Ban translation tools entirely
- Only allow translation on tests
- Why is machine translation often weaker for some languages?
- Those languages have no grammar
- Translation tools refuse to process them
- Teachers disable them
- Less training data exists for those language pairs
- What is recasting in conversation practice?
- Stopping the student after every error to explain grammar
- Repeating the student's idea in correct form without stopping the conversation
- Translating the conversation into the home language
- Switching to a different chatbot
- What does the guide recommend for high-stakes meetings with families who speak another language?
- Qualified interpreters rather than raw machine translation
- Sending only English documents
- Using a chatbot to run the meeting
- Asking the student to interpret
- Why might a teacher build a cognate list like photosynthesis and fotosíntesis?
- To replace English instruction
- To test spelling
- To help students link words they know in their home language to English academic vocabulary
- To meet a copyright requirement
- What is translanguaging?
- A type of machine translation algorithm
- A rule that students may only use English at school
- A test of language proficiency
- Treating a student's full language repertoire as a resource for learning
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