Phonolgy Correct Answer: study of speech sounds in language, particularly sounds
that are distinct to specific languages
Phonemes Correct Answer: The smallest units of sound used in a language.
(English uses 41) *"B" sound in Book is a phoneme
Intonation Correct Answer: The rise and fall of the voice in speaking. A variance in
the voice that helps make meaning (High pitch at the end of a question) *Changes
in stress and pitch are considered this
Pitch Correct Answer: How high or low a sound is in tone of voice
Modulation Correct Answer: The changing or control of one's frequency during
speech (going from loud to quiet)
Aural Comprehension Correct Answer: This term describes a person's ability to
understand information received via the ears
Digraph Correct Answer: A union of two characters representing a single sound.
Diphthong Correct Answer: Two vowel sounds produced together so that they are
defined as one sound. *Makes the speak have to move their tongue (Ex: Boy)
Schwa Correct Answer: Vowel sound that appears in an unaccented or unstressed
part of the word (uh sound in alone)
consonant clusters Correct Answer: In linguistics, a consonant cluster is a group of
consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups
/spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits (/bl/ and /nd/ in bland)
Compound word Correct Answer: when two words, or morphemes, are joined to
form a new word (mailbox)
, Morpheme Correct Answer: in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning;
may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
Lexical Morpheme Correct Answer: base word, , a prefix, suffix, infix (argue=1
morpheme, argument- 2 lexical morphemes)
Explicit/organized/systematic phonics Correct Answer: the teaching of individual
letter sounds and their relationship in combined letter sounds (S sound then the
sh sound)
Decoding skill Correct Answer: is the ability to analyze and make sense of the
symbols that make up language, both written and verbal. Recognizing letters,
sounds, patterns, and organize them in a meaningful communication
Spelling Patterns Correct Answer: A spelling pattern is a common combination of
letters. if a language learner learns "ea" then he or she will notice, head, bread
since they know that pattern
Orthography Correct Answer: a method of representing the sounds of a language
by written or printed symbols
Structural Analysis Correct Answer: involves splitting words into their individual
parts; prefix, suffix, and root word to determine meaning.
Prior knowledge Correct Answer: knowledge you have before you read a text,
which is used to make inferences about the text
Contrastive Analysis Correct Answer: differences between two languages that
might pose problems for the teacher/students - was later found that many errors
couldn't be explained through a negative transfer from the first to second
language
context clues Correct Answer: A vocabulary strategy in which the reader looks at
the words around an unfamiliar word to find clues to its meaning.
Word structure Correct Answer: The way in which the parts of a word are
arranged together.
Apposition Correct Answer: a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun
phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
that are distinct to specific languages
Phonemes Correct Answer: The smallest units of sound used in a language.
(English uses 41) *"B" sound in Book is a phoneme
Intonation Correct Answer: The rise and fall of the voice in speaking. A variance in
the voice that helps make meaning (High pitch at the end of a question) *Changes
in stress and pitch are considered this
Pitch Correct Answer: How high or low a sound is in tone of voice
Modulation Correct Answer: The changing or control of one's frequency during
speech (going from loud to quiet)
Aural Comprehension Correct Answer: This term describes a person's ability to
understand information received via the ears
Digraph Correct Answer: A union of two characters representing a single sound.
Diphthong Correct Answer: Two vowel sounds produced together so that they are
defined as one sound. *Makes the speak have to move their tongue (Ex: Boy)
Schwa Correct Answer: Vowel sound that appears in an unaccented or unstressed
part of the word (uh sound in alone)
consonant clusters Correct Answer: In linguistics, a consonant cluster is a group of
consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups
/spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits (/bl/ and /nd/ in bland)
Compound word Correct Answer: when two words, or morphemes, are joined to
form a new word (mailbox)
, Morpheme Correct Answer: in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning;
may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
Lexical Morpheme Correct Answer: base word, , a prefix, suffix, infix (argue=1
morpheme, argument- 2 lexical morphemes)
Explicit/organized/systematic phonics Correct Answer: the teaching of individual
letter sounds and their relationship in combined letter sounds (S sound then the
sh sound)
Decoding skill Correct Answer: is the ability to analyze and make sense of the
symbols that make up language, both written and verbal. Recognizing letters,
sounds, patterns, and organize them in a meaningful communication
Spelling Patterns Correct Answer: A spelling pattern is a common combination of
letters. if a language learner learns "ea" then he or she will notice, head, bread
since they know that pattern
Orthography Correct Answer: a method of representing the sounds of a language
by written or printed symbols
Structural Analysis Correct Answer: involves splitting words into their individual
parts; prefix, suffix, and root word to determine meaning.
Prior knowledge Correct Answer: knowledge you have before you read a text,
which is used to make inferences about the text
Contrastive Analysis Correct Answer: differences between two languages that
might pose problems for the teacher/students - was later found that many errors
couldn't be explained through a negative transfer from the first to second
language
context clues Correct Answer: A vocabulary strategy in which the reader looks at
the words around an unfamiliar word to find clues to its meaning.
Word structure Correct Answer: The way in which the parts of a word are
arranged together.
Apposition Correct Answer: a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun
phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
