CASLI Written Exam – Study Guide and Practice Questions for ASL
Interpreter Certification
Abstract Classifiers - correct answer ✔✔Classifiers that are smaller than life sized, the shape and
movement of which does not necessarily have iconic features.
Abstract Language - correct answer ✔✔describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or
specific things
adventitious deafness - correct answer ✔✔deafness that occurs after birth
Affect - correct answer ✔✔Refers to emotions or feelings
A-Language or L1 - correct answer ✔✔One's first language
Anglicized ASL - correct answer ✔✔English and ASL sign blends (More ASL than English)
AVLIC - correct answer ✔✔Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
Audism - correct answer ✔✔Attitude causing negative stigma toward anyone unable to hear
Auditory feedback loop - correct answer ✔✔The channel through which hearing people hear
(and monitor) their own voice as they speak
Aural-oral languages - correct answer ✔✔Languages based on a structured set of linguistic rules
in which the communication is based on sound
, Bicultural - correct answer ✔✔used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles,
and sets of values
bilingual-bicultural philosophy of interpreting - correct answer ✔✔Based on the belief that
effective interpretation requires cultural and linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker
goals and maintain dynamic equivalence
B-Language or L2 - correct answer ✔✔Refers to ones 2nd language learned
CDI - correct answer ✔✔certified Deaf Interpreter
Classifiers - correct answer ✔✔Designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime
used to represent nouns and verbs.
Cloze skills - correct answer ✔✔The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔Principles of conduct within an organization that guide
decision making and behavior.
code switching - correct answer ✔✔the practice of changing language or dialect to
accommodate to the communication situation (unconscious)
code mixing - correct answer ✔✔using various combinations of words or phrases from more
than one language (conscious)
Communication dynamics - correct answer ✔✔The way people in a communication interaction
react to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction
Interpreter Certification
Abstract Classifiers - correct answer ✔✔Classifiers that are smaller than life sized, the shape and
movement of which does not necessarily have iconic features.
Abstract Language - correct answer ✔✔describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or
specific things
adventitious deafness - correct answer ✔✔deafness that occurs after birth
Affect - correct answer ✔✔Refers to emotions or feelings
A-Language or L1 - correct answer ✔✔One's first language
Anglicized ASL - correct answer ✔✔English and ASL sign blends (More ASL than English)
AVLIC - correct answer ✔✔Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
Audism - correct answer ✔✔Attitude causing negative stigma toward anyone unable to hear
Auditory feedback loop - correct answer ✔✔The channel through which hearing people hear
(and monitor) their own voice as they speak
Aural-oral languages - correct answer ✔✔Languages based on a structured set of linguistic rules
in which the communication is based on sound
, Bicultural - correct answer ✔✔used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles,
and sets of values
bilingual-bicultural philosophy of interpreting - correct answer ✔✔Based on the belief that
effective interpretation requires cultural and linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker
goals and maintain dynamic equivalence
B-Language or L2 - correct answer ✔✔Refers to ones 2nd language learned
CDI - correct answer ✔✔certified Deaf Interpreter
Classifiers - correct answer ✔✔Designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime
used to represent nouns and verbs.
Cloze skills - correct answer ✔✔The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔Principles of conduct within an organization that guide
decision making and behavior.
code switching - correct answer ✔✔the practice of changing language or dialect to
accommodate to the communication situation (unconscious)
code mixing - correct answer ✔✔using various combinations of words or phrases from more
than one language (conscious)
Communication dynamics - correct answer ✔✔The way people in a communication interaction
react to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction
