CASLI COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
Abstract Classifiers - ✔✔Classifiers that are smaller than life sized, the shape and
movement of which does not necessarily have iconic features.
✔✔Abstract Language - ✔✔describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or
specific things
✔✔adventitious deafness - ✔✔deafness that occurs after birth
✔✔Affect - ✔✔Refers to emotions or feelings
✔✔A-Language or L1 - ✔✔One's first language
✔✔Anglicized ASL - ✔✔English and ASL sign blends (More ASL than English)
✔✔AVLIC - ✔✔Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
✔✔Audism - ✔✔Attitude causing negative stigma toward anyone unable to hear
✔✔Auditory feedback loop - ✔✔The channel through which hearing people hear (and
monitor) their own voice as they speak
✔✔Aural-oral languages - ✔✔Languages based on a structured set of linguistic rules in
which the communication is based on sound
✔✔Bicultural - ✔✔used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and
sets of values
✔✔bilingual-bicultural philosophy of interpreting - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Refers to ones 2nd language learned
✔✔CDI - ✔✔certified Deaf Interpreter
✔✔Classifiers - ✔✔Designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime
used to represent nouns and verbs.
✔✔Cloze skills - ✔✔The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
✔✔code of ethics - ✔✔Principles of conduct within an organization that guide decision
making and behavior.
✔✔code switching - ✔✔the practice of changing language or dialect to accommodate to
the communication situation (unconscious)
✔✔code mixing - ✔✔using various combinations of words or phrases from more than
one language (conscious)
✔✔Communication dynamics - ✔✔The way people in a communication interaction react
to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction
✔✔Communication facilitation philosophy - ✔✔Set of beliefs including that Deaf people
are handicapped, ASL as a means of communicating only with less educated
individuals
✔✔CASE - ✔✔Conceptually accurate signed English (ASL signs, English order)
✔✔Conduit or machine philosophy - ✔✔Interpreter has no responsibility for interaction
or communication dynamics taking place.
✔✔CIT - ✔✔Conference of Interpreter Trainers
✔✔congenital deafness - ✔✔deafness from birth
✔✔Consecutive interpretation - ✔✔More accurate than simultaneous.
✔✔Cultural and linguistic mediation - ✔✔Interpreting so that information has equivalent
meaning and impact for individuals with different language and cultural schemas
✔✔Cultural Expansion - ✔✔Provide contextual information needed to help
understanding
✔✔Cultural reduction - ✔✔Reducing the volume and sometimes the detail of info
without affecting the meaning intended
SET A+
Abstract Classifiers - ✔✔Classifiers that are smaller than life sized, the shape and
movement of which does not necessarily have iconic features.
✔✔Abstract Language - ✔✔describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or
specific things
✔✔adventitious deafness - ✔✔deafness that occurs after birth
✔✔Affect - ✔✔Refers to emotions or feelings
✔✔A-Language or L1 - ✔✔One's first language
✔✔Anglicized ASL - ✔✔English and ASL sign blends (More ASL than English)
✔✔AVLIC - ✔✔Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
✔✔Audism - ✔✔Attitude causing negative stigma toward anyone unable to hear
✔✔Auditory feedback loop - ✔✔The channel through which hearing people hear (and
monitor) their own voice as they speak
✔✔Aural-oral languages - ✔✔Languages based on a structured set of linguistic rules in
which the communication is based on sound
✔✔Bicultural - ✔✔used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and
sets of values
✔✔bilingual-bicultural philosophy of interpreting - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Refers to ones 2nd language learned
✔✔CDI - ✔✔certified Deaf Interpreter
✔✔Classifiers - ✔✔Designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime
used to represent nouns and verbs.
✔✔Cloze skills - ✔✔The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
✔✔code of ethics - ✔✔Principles of conduct within an organization that guide decision
making and behavior.
✔✔code switching - ✔✔the practice of changing language or dialect to accommodate to
the communication situation (unconscious)
✔✔code mixing - ✔✔using various combinations of words or phrases from more than
one language (conscious)
✔✔Communication dynamics - ✔✔The way people in a communication interaction react
to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction
✔✔Communication facilitation philosophy - ✔✔Set of beliefs including that Deaf people
are handicapped, ASL as a means of communicating only with less educated
individuals
✔✔CASE - ✔✔Conceptually accurate signed English (ASL signs, English order)
✔✔Conduit or machine philosophy - ✔✔Interpreter has no responsibility for interaction
or communication dynamics taking place.
✔✔CIT - ✔✔Conference of Interpreter Trainers
✔✔congenital deafness - ✔✔deafness from birth
✔✔Consecutive interpretation - ✔✔More accurate than simultaneous.
✔✔Cultural and linguistic mediation - ✔✔Interpreting so that information has equivalent
meaning and impact for individuals with different language and cultural schemas
✔✔Cultural Expansion - ✔✔Provide contextual information needed to help
understanding
✔✔Cultural reduction - ✔✔Reducing the volume and sometimes the detail of info
without affecting the meaning intended
