edTPA Vocabulary | Questions and Answers with complete solution

Academic Language - Oral, written, and nonverbal language used for academic purposes. For physical education, it is the language students must use when developing movement competencies and learning knowledge in movement-based environments. Language Demands - Specific ways that academic language (vocabulary, functions, discourse, syntax) is used by students to participate in learning tasks through reading, writing, listening, and/or speaking to demonstrate their disciplinary understanding. Language Functions - The content and language focus of the learning task, represented by the active verbs within the learning outcomes. Vocabulary - Includes words and phrases that are used within disciplines, including (1) words with subject-specific meanings that differ from meanings used in everyday life (e.g., level, plane, set, guarding); (2) general academic vocabulary used across disciplines (e.g., compare, analyze, evaluate); and (3) subject-specific words defined for use in the discipline (e.g., locomotor, eye-hand coordination). Discourse - How we use language functions, vocabulary, and syntax to demonstrate an understanding of the content. Discourse includes the structures of written, verbal, and non-verbal language, as well as how members of the discipline talk and participate in knowledge construction. Discipline-specific discourse has distinctive features of structuring written, verbal, and non-verbal language that provide useful ways for the content to be communicated. Syntax - The set of conventions for organizing symbols, words, and phrases together into structures.20 Syntax focuses on the organizational aspects of giving meaning to phrases, sentences, or a set of symbols. Syntax is a way of "representing" something that may have a specific meaning in the content area Language Supports - The scaffolds, representations, and pedagogical strategies teachers provide to help learners understand, use, and practice the concepts and language they need to learn within disciplines