BEA - Bilingual Education Assessment Bilingual Education Program Models Questions and Answers

Question 1

A school district has a significant population of native Spanish-speaking students and native English-speaking students.
The district wants to implement a program with the goal of developing high levels of academic achievement, bilingualism, and biliteracy for both groups of students.
Which bilingual education program model best aligns with this goal?

Accepted Answer

Two-Way Dual Language Immersion

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Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE)

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ESL Pull-Out

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Sheltered English Immersion (SEI)

Question 2

Which of the following is the primary goal of an Early-Exit Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) program?

Accepted Answer

To move students into mainstream, English-only classrooms as quickly as possible.

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To develop full bilingualism and biliteracy in students' native language and English.

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To provide content-area instruction in English while adapting language to the students' proficiency level.

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To offer intensive, small-group English instruction to students for a portion of the school day.

Question 3

A third-grade student, who is a native Mandarin speaker, spends most of her day in a general education classroom. For 45 minutes each day, she goes to a different room with a certified ESL teacher and a small group of other multilingual learners to receive targeted English language instruction. This scenario describes which program model?

Accepted Answer

ESL Pull-Out

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Developmental Bilingual Education (DBE)

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One-Way Dual Language Immersion

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Sheltered English Instruction (SEI)

Question 4

The primary difference between a Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) model and a Developmental Bilingual Education (DBE) model is that...

Accepted Answer

TBE is a subtractive model aiming for English proficiency, while DBE is an additive model aiming for bilingualism and biliteracy.

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TBE programs serve only one language group, while DBE programs serve multiple language groups.

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TBE programs use only the native language for instruction, while DBE programs use only English.

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TBE is exclusively for elementary students, while DBE is for middle and high school students.

Question 5

A classroom is composed entirely of native Spanish-speaking students. The teacher provides 90% of the instruction in Spanish and 10% in English in kindergarten, with the amount of English instruction increasing each year. The goal is for students to become fully proficient in both Spanish and English by the end of elementary school. This model is best described as:

Accepted Answer

One-Way Dual Language Immersion

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Two-Way Dual Language Immersion

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ESL Push-In

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Sheltered English Immersion (SEI)

Question 6

Which of the following program models focuses on making grade-level academic content, such as science and social studies, more comprehensible to multilingual learners in an English-language setting, rather than on teaching the native language?

Accepted Answer

Sheltered English Instruction (SEI)

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Late-Exit Bilingual Education

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Two-Way Dual Language

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Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE)