Esol Gace Exam Questions With Complete Solutions

ESOL GACE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Sociolinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of how social
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conditions influence the use of language
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Code Switching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Interspersing one language
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with another
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Dialect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Complete system of verbal
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communication (oral or signed, not written) with its own pronunciation,
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vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or social groups
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Pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of how the context
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impacts the interpretation of language
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Phonology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The way in which speech sounds
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form patterns
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Phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The smallest unit of sound that
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affects meaning
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, Phonographemics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of letters and letter | | | | | | | |



combinations


Homonyms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-General term for word forms that
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have two or more meanings
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Homophones - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Two words with the same
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pronunciation, but different meaning and spelling (wood/would,
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cite/sight)
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Homographs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Two words with the same spelling
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or pronunciation, but different meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a
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plant)


Heteronyms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Two words that have the same
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spelling, but different pronunciation and meanings (Polish, polish)
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Morphology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How te words of a language are
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formed to create meaningful messages
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Morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Smallest unit of a language system
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that has meaning
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