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ESOL GACE Exam Study Guide with Correct Answers
Sociolinguistics - ✔️✔️The study of how social conditions influence the use of language
Code Switching - ✔️✔️Interspersing one language with another
Dialect - ✔️✔️Complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed, not written) with
its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or social
groups
Pragmatics - ✔️✔️The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language
Phonology - ✔️✔️The way in which speech sounds form patterns
Phonemes - ✔️✔️The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
Phonographemics - ✔️✔️Study of letters and letter combinations
Homonyms - ✔️✔️General term for word forms that have two or more meanings
Homophones - ✔️✔️Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning and
spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)
Homographs - ✔️✔️Two words with the same spelling or pronunciation, but different
meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a plant)
Heteronyms - ✔️✔️Two words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciation
and meanings (Polish, polish)
Morphology - ✔️✔️How te words of a language are formed to create meaningful
messages
Morpheme - ✔️✔️Smallest unit of a language system that has meaning
Syntax - ✔️✔️Order words are arranged to create meaning
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Standardizer - ✔️✔️One who successfully integrates new knowledge
Simplifier - ✔️✔️Reverts to syntactical rules of earlier stages (requires a reteach)
Semantics - ✔️✔️The meaning of words
DIscourse - ✔️✔️linguistic components of several sentences
BICS - ✔️✔️Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
CALP - ✔️✔️Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
CUP - ✔️✔️Common Underlying Proficiency (skills that can transfer from L1 to English
learning
LAD - ✔️✔️Language Acquisition Device
Chomsky - ✔️✔️Language Acquisition Device
Language Acquisition Device - ✔️✔️innate, nature, experience using language activates
Behaviorist Theory - ✔️✔️Children learn by being rewarded
Piaget - ✔️✔️Cognitive Constructivism
Cognitive Constructivism - ✔️✔️Language as reflection of thought, does not contribute to
development of thinking, cognitive thinking precedes language development
Vygotsky - ✔️✔️Social Constructivism and Language
Social Constructivism and Language - ✔️✔️Language first as social communication,
promotes language and cognition
Intentionality - ✔️✔️Language part of holistic development, depends on environment
Error analysis - ✔️✔️Recognizing patterns of error
Interlanguage - ✔️✔️Universal aspects of target language
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ESOL GACE Exam Study Guide with Correct Answers
Sociolinguistics - ✔️✔️The study of how social conditions influence the use of language
Code Switching - ✔️✔️Interspersing one language with another
Dialect - ✔️✔️Complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed, not written) with
its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or social
groups
Pragmatics - ✔️✔️The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language
Phonology - ✔️✔️The way in which speech sounds form patterns
Phonemes - ✔️✔️The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
Phonographemics - ✔️✔️Study of letters and letter combinations
Homonyms - ✔️✔️General term for word forms that have two or more meanings
Homophones - ✔️✔️Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning and
spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)
Homographs - ✔️✔️Two words with the same spelling or pronunciation, but different
meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a plant)
Heteronyms - ✔️✔️Two words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciation
and meanings (Polish, polish)
Morphology - ✔️✔️How te words of a language are formed to create meaningful
messages
Morpheme - ✔️✔️Smallest unit of a language system that has meaning
Syntax - ✔️✔️Order words are arranged to create meaning
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Standardizer - ✔️✔️One who successfully integrates new knowledge
Simplifier - ✔️✔️Reverts to syntactical rules of earlier stages (requires a reteach)
Semantics - ✔️✔️The meaning of words
DIscourse - ✔️✔️linguistic components of several sentences
BICS - ✔️✔️Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
CALP - ✔️✔️Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
CUP - ✔️✔️Common Underlying Proficiency (skills that can transfer from L1 to English
learning
LAD - ✔️✔️Language Acquisition Device
Chomsky - ✔️✔️Language Acquisition Device
Language Acquisition Device - ✔️✔️innate, nature, experience using language activates
Behaviorist Theory - ✔️✔️Children learn by being rewarded
Piaget - ✔️✔️Cognitive Constructivism
Cognitive Constructivism - ✔️✔️Language as reflection of thought, does not contribute to
development of thinking, cognitive thinking precedes language development
Vygotsky - ✔️✔️Social Constructivism and Language
Social Constructivism and Language - ✔️✔️Language first as social communication,
promotes language and cognition
Intentionality - ✔️✔️Language part of holistic development, depends on environment
Error analysis - ✔️✔️Recognizing patterns of error
Interlanguage - ✔️✔️Universal aspects of target language
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