ALTA COMPETENCY EXAM SCRIPT WITH
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● aphasia
Answer: the loss or impairment of the ability to use and comprehend
words as the result of brain injury
●● articulation
Answer: the act or manner of producing sounds
●● echolalia
Answer: imitation of mother's sounds, rhythm, and tone
●● hyperlexia
Answer: superior ability to read words without comprehension
●● lexicon
Answer: an inventory of word knowledge, either spoken or written
●● otitis media
Answer: inflammation of the middle ear that can lead to temporary
conductive hearing loss or, sometimes, permanent hearing loss. A young
,child who experiences hearing loss from otitis media may have resulting
speech or language difficulties
●● Strands of language
Answer: 1. phonology
2. semantics
3. syntax
4. discourse
5. reading
6. writing
●● phonology
Answer: sounds of letters
●● semantics
Answer: word meaning in language
●● normal phonological development requires...
Answer: the ability to hear normally and to produce babbling
●● phonological production is largely complete by age:
Answer: four
,●● alphabetic language
Answer: a language in which letters are used systematically to represent
speech sounds or phonemes
●● alphabetic principle
Answer: the use of letters and letter clusters to represent phonemes in an
orthography
●● Anglo-Saxon
Answer: the language of the Germanic people who settles in Britain in
the 5th and 6th centuries. Anglo-Saxon was the dominant language in
Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066.
●● Analytic instruction
Answer: instruction that separates the whole into its constituent parts to
reveal the relationships of the parts.
●● Analytic phonics
Answer: analytic phonics separates the whole word into its constituent
parts so students can deduce the phonic relationship of the separate
orthographic patterns.
●● antonyms
, Answer: words of opposite meaning (semantics)
●● arbitrary learning
Answer: new learning that has no logical connection to already acquired
knowledge or practical relationships.
●● auditory
Answer: relating to or experienced through hearing
●● Bottom-up process
Answer: theoretical view of reading as process that consists of accurate
sequential reading of every word. Comprehension is viewed as text
driven rather than concept driven
●● concept-driven process
Answer: theoretical view of reading as a process that consists of using
one's experiences and expectations to react to text. Also called top-down
process
●● cooperative learning
Answer: instructional approach in which students work together rather
than compete to solve a problem or complete a task.
●● corrective feedback
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● aphasia
Answer: the loss or impairment of the ability to use and comprehend
words as the result of brain injury
●● articulation
Answer: the act or manner of producing sounds
●● echolalia
Answer: imitation of mother's sounds, rhythm, and tone
●● hyperlexia
Answer: superior ability to read words without comprehension
●● lexicon
Answer: an inventory of word knowledge, either spoken or written
●● otitis media
Answer: inflammation of the middle ear that can lead to temporary
conductive hearing loss or, sometimes, permanent hearing loss. A young
,child who experiences hearing loss from otitis media may have resulting
speech or language difficulties
●● Strands of language
Answer: 1. phonology
2. semantics
3. syntax
4. discourse
5. reading
6. writing
●● phonology
Answer: sounds of letters
●● semantics
Answer: word meaning in language
●● normal phonological development requires...
Answer: the ability to hear normally and to produce babbling
●● phonological production is largely complete by age:
Answer: four
,●● alphabetic language
Answer: a language in which letters are used systematically to represent
speech sounds or phonemes
●● alphabetic principle
Answer: the use of letters and letter clusters to represent phonemes in an
orthography
●● Anglo-Saxon
Answer: the language of the Germanic people who settles in Britain in
the 5th and 6th centuries. Anglo-Saxon was the dominant language in
Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066.
●● Analytic instruction
Answer: instruction that separates the whole into its constituent parts to
reveal the relationships of the parts.
●● Analytic phonics
Answer: analytic phonics separates the whole word into its constituent
parts so students can deduce the phonic relationship of the separate
orthographic patterns.
●● antonyms
, Answer: words of opposite meaning (semantics)
●● arbitrary learning
Answer: new learning that has no logical connection to already acquired
knowledge or practical relationships.
●● auditory
Answer: relating to or experienced through hearing
●● Bottom-up process
Answer: theoretical view of reading as process that consists of accurate
sequential reading of every word. Comprehension is viewed as text
driven rather than concept driven
●● concept-driven process
Answer: theoretical view of reading as a process that consists of using
one's experiences and expectations to react to text. Also called top-down
process
●● cooperative learning
Answer: instructional approach in which students work together rather
than compete to solve a problem or complete a task.
●● corrective feedback
