Texas Teacher Certification - TExES ESL Supplemental Exam (154)

semantics - ans-the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text pragmatics - ans-the use and function of language and the contexts in which it is used affect - ans-an attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance phoneme - ans-any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another phonology - ans-the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language phonemic awareness - ans-the ability to deal explicitly with segmental sound units smaller than a syllable. Example: The sound units in D O G. phonetics - ans-Study of sounds of the human speech. phonics - ans-Involves teaching children to connect sounds with letters or groups of letters. Example: (K) can be represented by C, K, or Ch spellings. morpheme - ans-a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided morphology - ans-the study of the forms of words and how words are formed