ELL Final Exam Study Guide

What is the a refugee? - Answer- a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster what is an asylum seekers? - Answer- is a person who flees his or her home country, enters another country and applies for asylum, i.e. the right to international protection, in this other country. immigrant - Answer- a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country Morphology - Answer- the study of the structure of words. The central unit of the study is the morpheme the smallest unit of meaning or grammatical function. Phonology - Answer- the study of the sound systems of languages. Pragmatic - Answer- the study of language in use, that is how individual produce and interpret language in social interactions in specific contexts. Semantics - Answer- the study of the meaning of words phrases and sentences. Synatx - Answer- the study of the rules governing the relationships between words and the ways they are combined to form phrases and sentences Communicative competence - Answer- The ability to use a language to communicate effectively and appropriately with other speakers of the language. Includes grammatical, discourse, sociolinguistics, and strategic competence. Grammatical competence - Answer- the ability to recognize the lexical, morphological, syntactic, and phonological features of language and sue them to interpret and form words and sentences Discourse competence - Answer- the ability to connect a series of utterances, written words or phrases to form a meaningful whole. Sociolinguistic competence - Answer- the ability to understand the social context in which language is used, including the roles of participants. Strategic competence - Answer- the ability to use coping strategies in unfamiliar contexts when imperfect knowledge of rules may lead to a breakdown in communication translanguaging - Answer- In its original conceptualization, refers to the practice in which bilinguals receive information in on language and then use or apply it in the other language. In its expanded sense, refers to the natural and normal ways bilinguals use their languages in their everyday lives to make sense of their bilingual worlds. Uses biling