CASLI GENERALIST KNOWLEDGE STUDY GUIDE |
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"qualified interpreter" - Answers -as "one who is able to interpret effectively, accurately,
and impartially, both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized
vocabulary"
SEA - Answers -State Education Agency
LEA - Answers -Local Education Agency
NTID - Answers -National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Inform talk - Answers -interpreter uses this to fill in a deaf student on conversations
occurring in the periphery
Child directed speech - Answers -changes in pitch, intensity, and the duration of the
voice, as organizational units of her utterances, as emotional content of her message,
and as extralinguistic information
IEP - Answers -Individualized Education Program (Team)
Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct - Answers -created as a modified version for
ed. interpreters to follow.
Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE) - Answers -teacher initiation, student response,
teacher evaluation; norm in classroom discourse, students become comfortable and
know what to expect in interactions with teachers.
Metacognitive, metalinguistic, and metacommunication - Answers -Ability to think about
one's thinking, to talk about one's language or communication, and to demonstrate a
consciousness of one's thinking, language, and communication skills
Zone of Proximal Development - Answers -The gap between what a child doesn't know
and what they can learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
ARC - Answers -Anticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
Implicit meaning - Answers -The deeper meaning of a text.
Translation - Answers -Transferring the meaning of a source language into a target
language.
, Lexical Equivalents - Answers -How dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally
and contextually.
Meaning Component - Answers -one of the smallest units of a semantic whole. This
includes a thing, event, or attribute. It unites any semantic set of its kind.
Informational Load - Answers -the speed and amount of information that is introduced
to the text
Idioms - Answers -a string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning
conveyed by the individual words.
Semantic structure - Answers -refers to the types of units, features, and relationships
described in a text
Referential meaning - Answers -when a word refers to a thing
Organizational meaning - Answers -refers to a topic of referents
Exegesis - Answers -The process of discovering the meaning of the source language
text which is to be translated
Primary sense - Answers -the meaning suggested by the word when it is used alone
Secondary senses - Answers -depends on the context in which a word is used.
Ambiguities - Answers -happens when the translator knows only one or two senses of a
word
Collocation - Answers -how words go together and has a range of when words should
be together or not.
Propositional clusters - Answers -consist of more than one proposition, and they will be
related to one another.
Groupings - Answers -primarily hierarchical in structure.
Thematic prominence - Answers -the information which contributes to the progression
of a message.
DEAM - Answers -deaf, dream, and team - which is a Deaf-centered, Deaf-friendly, and
Deaf-focused approach to interpreting within the professional and higher educational
fields ie. Team interpreting, ASL-to-English Interpretation, or Interpreting in hearing
situations where the formal register is used
2026 | GUARANTEED PASS
"qualified interpreter" - Answers -as "one who is able to interpret effectively, accurately,
and impartially, both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized
vocabulary"
SEA - Answers -State Education Agency
LEA - Answers -Local Education Agency
NTID - Answers -National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Inform talk - Answers -interpreter uses this to fill in a deaf student on conversations
occurring in the periphery
Child directed speech - Answers -changes in pitch, intensity, and the duration of the
voice, as organizational units of her utterances, as emotional content of her message,
and as extralinguistic information
IEP - Answers -Individualized Education Program (Team)
Educational Interpreter's Code of Conduct - Answers -created as a modified version for
ed. interpreters to follow.
Initiation, Response, Evaluation (IRE) - Answers -teacher initiation, student response,
teacher evaluation; norm in classroom discourse, students become comfortable and
know what to expect in interactions with teachers.
Metacognitive, metalinguistic, and metacommunication - Answers -Ability to think about
one's thinking, to talk about one's language or communication, and to demonstrate a
consciousness of one's thinking, language, and communication skills
Zone of Proximal Development - Answers -The gap between what a child doesn't know
and what they can learn with the help of someone more knowledgeable.
ARC - Answers -Anticipation, Realization, and Contemplation
Implicit meaning - Answers -The deeper meaning of a text.
Translation - Answers -Transferring the meaning of a source language into a target
language.
, Lexical Equivalents - Answers -How dynamically equivalent the translation is culturally
and contextually.
Meaning Component - Answers -one of the smallest units of a semantic whole. This
includes a thing, event, or attribute. It unites any semantic set of its kind.
Informational Load - Answers -the speed and amount of information that is introduced
to the text
Idioms - Answers -a string of words whose meaning is different from the meaning
conveyed by the individual words.
Semantic structure - Answers -refers to the types of units, features, and relationships
described in a text
Referential meaning - Answers -when a word refers to a thing
Organizational meaning - Answers -refers to a topic of referents
Exegesis - Answers -The process of discovering the meaning of the source language
text which is to be translated
Primary sense - Answers -the meaning suggested by the word when it is used alone
Secondary senses - Answers -depends on the context in which a word is used.
Ambiguities - Answers -happens when the translator knows only one or two senses of a
word
Collocation - Answers -how words go together and has a range of when words should
be together or not.
Propositional clusters - Answers -consist of more than one proposition, and they will be
related to one another.
Groupings - Answers -primarily hierarchical in structure.
Thematic prominence - Answers -the information which contributes to the progression
of a message.
DEAM - Answers -deaf, dream, and team - which is a Deaf-centered, Deaf-friendly, and
Deaf-focused approach to interpreting within the professional and higher educational
fields ie. Team interpreting, ASL-to-English Interpretation, or Interpreting in hearing
situations where the formal register is used
