CASLI GENERALIST KNOWLEDGE
"Qualified interpreter" - answer as "one who is able to interpret effectively, accurately,
and impartially, both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized
vocabulary"
SEA - answer State Education Agency
LEA - answer Local Education Agency
NTID - answer National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Inform talk - answer interpreter uses this to fill in a deaf student on conversations
occurring in the periphery
Child directed speech - answer changes in pitch, intensity, and the duration of the voice,
as organizational units of her utterances, as emotional content of her message, and as
extralinguistic information
IEP - answerIndividualized Education Program (Team)
Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct - answercreated as a modified version for ed.
interpreters to follow.
Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE) - answerteacher initiation, student response,
teacher evaluation; norm in classroom discourse, students become comfortable and
know what to expect in interactions with teachers.
Metacognitive, metalinguistic, and metacommunication - answerAbility to think about
one's thinking, to talk about one's language or communication, and to demonstrate a
consciousness of one's thinking, language, and communication skills
Zone of Proximal Development - answerThe gap between what a child doesn't know
and what they can learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
ARC - answerAnticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
Implicit meaning - answerThe deeper meaning of a text.
Translation - answerTransferring the meaning of a source language into a target
language.
, Lexical Equivalents - answerHow dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally and
contextually.
Meaning Component - answerone of the smallest units of a semantic whole. This
includes a thing, event, or attribute. It unites any semantic set of its kind.
Informational Load - answerthe speed and amount of information that is introduced to
the text
Idioms - answera string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning
conveyed by the individual words.
Semantic structure - answerrefers to the types of units, features, and relationships
described in a text
Referential meaning - answerwhen a word refers to a thing
Organizational meaning - answerrefers to a topic of referents
Exegesis - answerThe process of discovering the meaning of the source language text
which is to be translated
Primary sense - answerthe meaning suggested by the word when it is used alone
Secondary senses - answerdepends on the context in which a word is used.
Ambiguities - answerhappens when the translator knows only one or two senses of a
word
Collocation - answerhow words go together and has a range of when words should be
together or not.
Propositional clusters - answerconsist of more than one proposition, and they will be
related to one another.
Groupings - answerprimarily hierarchical in structure.
Thematic prominence - answerthe information which contributes to the progression of a
message.
DEAM - answerdeaf, dream, and team - which is a Deaf-centered, Deaf-friendly, and
Deaf-focused approach to interpreting within the professional and higher educational
fields ie. Team interpreting, ASL-to-English Interpretation, or Interpreting in hearing
situations where the formal register is used
"Qualified interpreter" - answer as "one who is able to interpret effectively, accurately,
and impartially, both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized
vocabulary"
SEA - answer State Education Agency
LEA - answer Local Education Agency
NTID - answer National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Inform talk - answer interpreter uses this to fill in a deaf student on conversations
occurring in the periphery
Child directed speech - answer changes in pitch, intensity, and the duration of the voice,
as organizational units of her utterances, as emotional content of her message, and as
extralinguistic information
IEP - answerIndividualized Education Program (Team)
Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct - answercreated as a modified version for ed.
interpreters to follow.
Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE) - answerteacher initiation, student response,
teacher evaluation; norm in classroom discourse, students become comfortable and
know what to expect in interactions with teachers.
Metacognitive, metalinguistic, and metacommunication - answerAbility to think about
one's thinking, to talk about one's language or communication, and to demonstrate a
consciousness of one's thinking, language, and communication skills
Zone of Proximal Development - answerThe gap between what a child doesn't know
and what they can learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
ARC - answerAnticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
Implicit meaning - answerThe deeper meaning of a text.
Translation - answerTransferring the meaning of a source language into a target
language.
, Lexical Equivalents - answerHow dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally and
contextually.
Meaning Component - answerone of the smallest units of a semantic whole. This
includes a thing, event, or attribute. It unites any semantic set of its kind.
Informational Load - answerthe speed and amount of information that is introduced to
the text
Idioms - answera string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning
conveyed by the individual words.
Semantic structure - answerrefers to the types of units, features, and relationships
described in a text
Referential meaning - answerwhen a word refers to a thing
Organizational meaning - answerrefers to a topic of referents
Exegesis - answerThe process of discovering the meaning of the source language text
which is to be translated
Primary sense - answerthe meaning suggested by the word when it is used alone
Secondary senses - answerdepends on the context in which a word is used.
Ambiguities - answerhappens when the translator knows only one or two senses of a
word
Collocation - answerhow words go together and has a range of when words should be
together or not.
Propositional clusters - answerconsist of more than one proposition, and they will be
related to one another.
Groupings - answerprimarily hierarchical in structure.
Thematic prominence - answerthe information which contributes to the progression of a
message.
DEAM - answerdeaf, dream, and team - which is a Deaf-centered, Deaf-friendly, and
Deaf-focused approach to interpreting within the professional and higher educational
fields ie. Team interpreting, ASL-to-English Interpretation, or Interpreting in hearing
situations where the formal register is used
