CALP Terminology Queastions and
answers
phonemic awareness ✔✔awareness of the smallest unit of sound in the
speech stream and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual sounds
in words, a part of phonological awareness, also called phoneme
awareness
phonetics ✔✔the system of speech in a specific language and how you
analyze the production of human sound
phonological awareness ✔✔not the knowledge of and sensitivity to the
phonological structure in a language. involves a sophisticated ability to
notice, think abut , or manipulate sound segments in words, progresses
from rhyming, to syllable counting, to detecting first, last and middle
sounds, to segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting sounds in words
phonology ✔✔the science of speech sounds, including the development of
speech sounds in one language or the comparison of speech sounds
development across different languages and how they are organized
pragmatics ✔✔the set of rules that dictates behavior for communicative
intention in a particular context and the rules of conversation or discourse,
practical application of language; talking to friends vs boss
, prefix ✔✔a letter or letters that comes at the beginning of a word to change
its meaning
contra/ anti
prosody ✔✔features of spoken language, such as intonation and stress,
that fluent readers use for appropriate phrasing of text in meaningful units;
reading with feeling
qualitative research ✔✔research that involves observing individuals and
settings and relies on observation and description of events in the
immediate context
quantitative research ✔✔research using experimental or quasi
experimental design methods to gather data
quasi-experimental research ✔✔research that determines case and effect
without strict randomized controlled trials and is called but less reliable than
randomized controlled trials
RAP Rapid Automatic Naming ✔✔a speed naming task, most often
administered to pre readers, in which the individual is asked to name
quickly a series of printed letters, numbers, or blocks of color repeated over
and over in random order, retrieved from long term memory
r-controlled ✔✔pertaining to the phenomenon in English in which the letter
r affects the way a preceding bowel is pronounced; bar vs bat
answers
phonemic awareness ✔✔awareness of the smallest unit of sound in the
speech stream and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual sounds
in words, a part of phonological awareness, also called phoneme
awareness
phonetics ✔✔the system of speech in a specific language and how you
analyze the production of human sound
phonological awareness ✔✔not the knowledge of and sensitivity to the
phonological structure in a language. involves a sophisticated ability to
notice, think abut , or manipulate sound segments in words, progresses
from rhyming, to syllable counting, to detecting first, last and middle
sounds, to segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting sounds in words
phonology ✔✔the science of speech sounds, including the development of
speech sounds in one language or the comparison of speech sounds
development across different languages and how they are organized
pragmatics ✔✔the set of rules that dictates behavior for communicative
intention in a particular context and the rules of conversation or discourse,
practical application of language; talking to friends vs boss
, prefix ✔✔a letter or letters that comes at the beginning of a word to change
its meaning
contra/ anti
prosody ✔✔features of spoken language, such as intonation and stress,
that fluent readers use for appropriate phrasing of text in meaningful units;
reading with feeling
qualitative research ✔✔research that involves observing individuals and
settings and relies on observation and description of events in the
immediate context
quantitative research ✔✔research using experimental or quasi
experimental design methods to gather data
quasi-experimental research ✔✔research that determines case and effect
without strict randomized controlled trials and is called but less reliable than
randomized controlled trials
RAP Rapid Automatic Naming ✔✔a speed naming task, most often
administered to pre readers, in which the individual is asked to name
quickly a series of printed letters, numbers, or blocks of color repeated over
and over in random order, retrieved from long term memory
r-controlled ✔✔pertaining to the phenomenon in English in which the letter
r affects the way a preceding bowel is pronounced; bar vs bat
