Educational researchers studying multilingual classrooms have found that supporting students who speak different native languages ______ individualize...
GMAT Craft and Structure : (Structure) Questions
Educational researchers studying multilingual classrooms have found that supporting students who speak different native languages ______ individualized teaching approaches. Because students arrive with varying levels of English proficiency and different cultural learning styles, a one-size-fits-all curriculum often fails to address their diverse academic needs.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
celebrates
necessitates
documents
suggests
Step 1: Decode and Map the Passage
Part A: Passage Analysis Table
| Text from Passage | Analysis |
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| 'Educational researchers studying multilingual classrooms have found that supporting students who speak different native languages' |
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| [MISSING WORD/PHRASE] |
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| 'individualized teaching approaches.' |
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| 'Because students arrive with varying levels of English proficiency and different cultural learning styles,' |
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| 'a one-size-fits-all curriculum often fails to address their diverse academic needs.' |
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Part B: Passage Architecture & Core Elements
Main Point: Research shows that supporting multilingual students requires individualized teaching approaches because of their diverse needs and backgrounds.
Argument Flow: The passage presents a research finding, then immediately provides the logical reasoning behind that finding by explaining student diversity and how uniform approaches fail to meet their varied needs.
Step 2: Interpret the Question Precisely
This is a fill-in-the-blank question asking us to choose the best logical connector. The answer must create the right relationship between what comes before and after the blank.
Step 3: Prethink the Answer
- Based on our analysis, we can see that the evidence clearly explains why supporting multilingual students would require individualized approaches
- The diverse English levels and learning styles, combined with the failure of one-size-fits-all curricula, creates a logical necessity
- So the right answer should express that supporting multilingual students makes individualized teaching approaches necessary or required
celebrates
✗ Incorrect
- 'Celebrates' means to praise or honor something
- This doesn't fit the logical relationship established by the evidence
- The passage isn't about praising individualized approaches, but about their necessity
necessitates
✓ Correct
- 'Necessitates' means requires or makes necessary
- This perfectly matches our prethinking about the logical relationship
- The evidence about student diversity and curriculum failure directly supports why individualized approaches would be necessary
documents
✗ Incorrect
- 'Documents' means records or provides evidence for
- This suggests researchers are simply recording that individualized approaches exist
- Students might think this works because researchers are involved, but the passage is about what the research discovered, not what it recorded
suggests
✗ Incorrect
- 'Suggests' means indicates or implies
- This is too weak given the strong evidence provided
- The passage presents compelling reasons why individualized approaches are required, not just hinted at