CASLI GENERALIST KNOWLEDGE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULLY SOLVED
"qualified interpreter" - Answers as "one who is able to interpret effectively, accurately, and impartially,
both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized vocabulary"
SEA - Answers State Education Agency
LEA - Answers Local Education Agency
NTID - Answers National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Inform talk - Answers interpreter uses this to fill in a deaf student on conversations occurring in the
periphery
Child directed speech - Answers 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 - Answers Individualized Education Program (Team)
Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct - Answers created as a modified version for ed. interpreters
to follow.
Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE) - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers The gap between what a child doesn't know and what they
can learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
ARC - Answers Anticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
Implicit meaning - Answers The deeper meaning of a text.
Translation - Answers Transferring the meaning of a source language into a target language.
Lexical Equivalents - Answers How dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally and contextually.
Meaning Component - Answers 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 - Answers the speed and amount of information that is introduced to the text
, Idioms - Answers a string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning conveyed by the
individual words.
Semantic structure - Answers refers to the types of units, features, and relationships described in a text
Referential meaning - Answers when a word refers to a thing
Organizational meaning - Answers refers to a topic of referents
Exegesis - Answers The process of discovering the meaning of the source language text which is to be
translated
Primary sense - Answers the meaning suggested by the word when it is used alone
Secondary senses - Answers depends on the context in which a word is used.
Ambiguities - Answers happens when the translator knows only one or two senses of a word
Collocation - Answers how words go together and has a range of when words should be together or not.
Propositional clusters - Answers consist of more than one proposition, and they will be related to one
another.
Groupings - Answers primarily hierarchical in structure.
Thematic prominence - Answers the information which contributes to the progression of a message.
DEAM - Answers deaf, dream, and team - which is a Deaf-centered, Deaf-friendly, and Deaf-focused
approach to interpreting within the professional and higher educational fields ie. Team interpreting,
ASL-to-English Interpretation, or Interpreting in hearing situations where the formal register is used
PSE - Answers Pidgin Signed English, and it can be thought of as a bridge language. It connects American
Sign Language with Manually Coded English (MCE) by incorporating signs and syntax employed by both
forms. It is most common in educational interpreting
Demand Control Schema - Answers Interpreting concept of understanding the specific demands of an
engagement and the controls, or items the interpreter can control.
Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) (CRPD) - Answers Worldwide reporting
system of various access grievances by disabled persons.
Enculturation - Answers Cultural knowledge through studying and social interactions.
Acculturation - Answers Cultural knowledge through direct experience and upbringing.
Deaf centered model - Answers This model focuses on ASL, where the interpreter works as a partner,
understands power inequities, provides visual clarity, and ensures Deaf engagement.
"qualified interpreter" - Answers as "one who is able to interpret effectively, accurately, and impartially,
both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized vocabulary"
SEA - Answers State Education Agency
LEA - Answers Local Education Agency
NTID - Answers National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Inform talk - Answers interpreter uses this to fill in a deaf student on conversations occurring in the
periphery
Child directed speech - Answers 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 - Answers Individualized Education Program (Team)
Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct - Answers created as a modified version for ed. interpreters
to follow.
Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE) - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers The gap between what a child doesn't know and what they
can learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
ARC - Answers Anticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
Implicit meaning - Answers The deeper meaning of a text.
Translation - Answers Transferring the meaning of a source language into a target language.
Lexical Equivalents - Answers How dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally and contextually.
Meaning Component - Answers 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 - Answers the speed and amount of information that is introduced to the text
, Idioms - Answers a string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning conveyed by the
individual words.
Semantic structure - Answers refers to the types of units, features, and relationships described in a text
Referential meaning - Answers when a word refers to a thing
Organizational meaning - Answers refers to a topic of referents
Exegesis - Answers The process of discovering the meaning of the source language text which is to be
translated
Primary sense - Answers the meaning suggested by the word when it is used alone
Secondary senses - Answers depends on the context in which a word is used.
Ambiguities - Answers happens when the translator knows only one or two senses of a word
Collocation - Answers how words go together and has a range of when words should be together or not.
Propositional clusters - Answers consist of more than one proposition, and they will be related to one
another.
Groupings - Answers primarily hierarchical in structure.
Thematic prominence - Answers the information which contributes to the progression of a message.
DEAM - Answers deaf, dream, and team - which is a Deaf-centered, Deaf-friendly, and Deaf-focused
approach to interpreting within the professional and higher educational fields ie. Team interpreting,
ASL-to-English Interpretation, or Interpreting in hearing situations where the formal register is used
PSE - Answers Pidgin Signed English, and it can be thought of as a bridge language. It connects American
Sign Language with Manually Coded English (MCE) by incorporating signs and syntax employed by both
forms. It is most common in educational interpreting
Demand Control Schema - Answers Interpreting concept of understanding the specific demands of an
engagement and the controls, or items the interpreter can control.
Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) (CRPD) - Answers Worldwide reporting
system of various access grievances by disabled persons.
Enculturation - Answers Cultural knowledge through studying and social interactions.
Acculturation - Answers Cultural knowledge through direct experience and upbringing.
Deaf centered model - Answers This model focuses on ASL, where the interpreter works as a partner,
understands power inequities, provides visual clarity, and ensures Deaf engagement.
