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Language and Literacy Exam 2025 Questions and Answers Language is a form of what? - ANS Communication What are the different forms of communication? - ANS Verbal - Spoken - written Non-verbal - vocal (sounds) - visual (gestures, facial expressions) Can verbal communication be past, present or future? - ANS It can be all past, present, future Can non-verbal communication be past, present or future? - ANS It is instant - Only in the present What are the different genre types? - ANS Imaginative Informative Persuasive What are the different patterns that take place in classroom talk? - ANS Student - Student - st-st teacher - student - t-st Pg. 2 Copyright © 2025 Jasonmcconell. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Phonemes - ANS Speech sounds (spoken communication) m-oo-n (3sounds) Graphemes - ANS The letters we use (written) Phonology - ANS Study of speech sounds Semiotics - ANS Study of signs and the way they are used to communicate meaning Signifier - ANS The sign (image) eg. colours of traffic lights Signified - ANS Meaning of the sign eg. our response to each of the colours Iconic signs - ANS Close to being a direct picture of what the signs refer to Symbolic signs - ANS these signs are symbols of what they refer to / do not present a direct picture, only something we associate with it. What is arbitrary? - ANS There is no reason why the word = it's meaning eg. there is no reason why a green traffic light is GO and red traffic light is STOP. What are the characteristics of language? - ANS - Systematic - Arbitrary - Conventional - Symbolic

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Language and Literacy Exam 2025 Questions
and Answers

Language is a form of what? - ANS Communication

What are the different forms of communication? - ANS Verbal - Spoken
- written
Non-verbal - vocal (sounds)
- visual (gestures, facial expressions)

Can verbal communication be past, present or future? - ANS It can be all past, present,
future

Can non-verbal communication be past, present or future? - ANS It is instant - Only in the
present

What are the different genre types? - ANS Imaginative
Informative
Persuasive

What are the different patterns that take place in classroom talk? - ANS Student - Student -
st-st
teacher - student - t-st

Pg. 1 Copyright © 2025 Jasonmcconell. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

, Phonemes - ANS Speech sounds (spoken communication) m-oo-n (3sounds)

Graphemes - ANS The letters we use (written)

Phonology - ANS Study of speech sounds

Semiotics - ANS Study of signs and the way they are used to communicate meaning

Signifier - ANS The sign (image) eg. colours of traffic lights

Signified - ANS Meaning of the sign eg. our response to each of the colours

Iconic signs - ANS Close to being a direct picture of what the signs refer to

Symbolic signs - ANS these signs are symbols of what they refer to / do not present a direct
picture, only something we associate with it.

What is arbitrary? - ANS There is no reason why the word = it's meaning eg. there is no
reason why a green traffic light is GO and red traffic light is STOP.

What are the characteristics of language? - ANS - Systematic
- Arbitrary
- Conventional
- Symbolic

Pg. 2 Copyright © 2025 Jasonmcconell. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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