CASLI KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS STUDY GUIDE
●● 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
Answer: Individualized Education Program (Team)
●● Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct
Answer: created as a modified version for ed. interpreters to follow.
●● Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE)
Answer: teacher 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
Answer: Ability 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
Answer: The gap between what a child doesn't know and what they can
learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
●● ARC
Answer: Anticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
, ●● Implicit meaning
Answer: The deeper meaning of a text.
●● Translation
Answer: Transferring the meaning of a source language into a target
language.
●● Lexical Equivalents
Answer: How dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally and
contextually.
●● Meaning Component
Answer: one 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
Answer: the speed and amount of information that is introduced to the
text
●● Idioms
Answer: a string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning
conveyed by the individual words.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS STUDY GUIDE
●● 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
Answer: Individualized Education Program (Team)
●● Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct
Answer: created as a modified version for ed. interpreters to follow.
●● Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE)
Answer: teacher 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
Answer: Ability 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
Answer: The gap between what a child doesn't know and what they can
learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
●● ARC
Answer: Anticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
, ●● Implicit meaning
Answer: The deeper meaning of a text.
●● Translation
Answer: Transferring the meaning of a source language into a target
language.
●● Lexical Equivalents
Answer: How dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally and
contextually.
●● Meaning Component
Answer: one 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
Answer: the speed and amount of information that is introduced to the
text
●● Idioms
Answer: a string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning
conveyed by the individual words.
