CASLI ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS
COMPLETE PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● Abstract Language
Answer: describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or specific
things
●● adventitious deafness
Answer: deafness that occurs after birth
●● Affect
Answer: Refers to emotions or feelings
●● A-Language or L1
Answer: One's first language
●● Anglicized ASL
Answer: English and ASL sign blends (More ASL than English)
●● AVLIC
Answer: Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
,●● Audism
Answer: Attitude causing negative stigma toward anyone unable to hear
●● Auditory feedback loop
Answer: The channel through which hearing people hear (and monitor)
their own voice as they speak
●● Aural-oral languages
Answer: Languages based on a structured set of linguistic rules in which
the communication is based on sound
●● Bicultural
Answer: used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles,
and sets of values
●● bilingual-bicultural philosophy of interpreting
Answer: 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
Answer: Refers to ones 2nd language learned
, ●● CDI
Answer: certified Deaf Interpreter
●● Classifiers
Answer: Designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime
used to represent nouns and verbs.
●● Cloze skills
Answer: The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
●● code of ethics
Answer: Principles of conduct within an organization that guide decision
making and behavior.
●● code switching
Answer: the practice of changing language or dialect to accommodate to
the communication situation (unconscious)
●● code mixing
Answer: using various combinations of words or phrases from more than
one language (conscious)
●● Communication dynamics
COMPLETE PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● Abstract Language
Answer: describes ideas and qualities, rather than observable or specific
things
●● adventitious deafness
Answer: deafness that occurs after birth
●● Affect
Answer: Refers to emotions or feelings
●● A-Language or L1
Answer: One's first language
●● Anglicized ASL
Answer: English and ASL sign blends (More ASL than English)
●● AVLIC
Answer: Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
,●● Audism
Answer: Attitude causing negative stigma toward anyone unable to hear
●● Auditory feedback loop
Answer: The channel through which hearing people hear (and monitor)
their own voice as they speak
●● Aural-oral languages
Answer: Languages based on a structured set of linguistic rules in which
the communication is based on sound
●● Bicultural
Answer: used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles,
and sets of values
●● bilingual-bicultural philosophy of interpreting
Answer: 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
Answer: Refers to ones 2nd language learned
, ●● CDI
Answer: certified Deaf Interpreter
●● Classifiers
Answer: Designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime
used to represent nouns and verbs.
●● Cloze skills
Answer: The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
●● code of ethics
Answer: Principles of conduct within an organization that guide decision
making and behavior.
●● code switching
Answer: the practice of changing language or dialect to accommodate to
the communication situation (unconscious)
●● code mixing
Answer: using various combinations of words or phrases from more than
one language (conscious)
●● Communication dynamics
