ALTA Practice CALT LEAD.docx

Phonology - correct answer Sounds of letters semantics - correct answer Word meaning in language syntax - correct answer Grammar system of language discourse - correct answer Talking with another Aphasia - correct answer The loss or impairment of the ability to comprehend words, TBI result. Alphabetic language - correct answer A language in which letters are used systematically to represent sounds or phonemes Alphabetic principle - correct answer Spelling - the use of letter/s to represent phonemes in orthography Anglo Saxon - correct answer Dominant language in Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Usually 1 syllable words which are concerned with short vowel sounds. Everyday Words. - 20-25% Of the English Language Analytic Instruction - correct answer Separates the whole into parts to revel the relationships of the parts Arbitrary learning - correct answer New learning that has no logical connection to already acquired knowledge Auditory - correct answer To experience through hearing Bottom up process - correct answer Process consists of accurate and sequential reading of every word. Comprehension is TEXT Driven! PARTS TO WHOLE Top down process/Concept driven - correct answer Reading consists of using one's experiences and expectations to react to the text . WHOLE TO PARTS Cooperative learning - correct answer Students work together to solve a problem/task Cumulative - correct answer New learning that is based on previously learned elements Diagnostic teaching - correct answer Teaching uses both formal and informal assessments to measure student progress against expected standards Direct Instruction/Explicit instruction - correct answer TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED! Instruction is delivered without vagueness. Embedded Phonics - correct answer Phonological awareness and phonics taught implicitly through reading of real words in text Etymology - correct answer History of word origins Euphony - correct answer Pleasing to the ear Fernald Method - correct answer Technique for learning words that involves visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile Greek - correct answer Uses scientific terms - 10% of English Words Guided Discovery - correct answer Presenting material/concepts to de deduced/discovered by students (concept) Homographs - correct answer Words that have different meanings but share the same spellings but the pronunciation can be different (wild/wild) Homonyms - correct answer Words that have different meanings but share the same pronunciations (sale/sail, beet/beat) Homophones - correct answer Words that share the same pronunciations but have different spellings and meanings (to, too, two) Implicit/inferential instruction - correct answer Implies understanding without being expressed Latin - correct answer The language of Ancient Romans. High school vocabulary - 60% of English words Lexicon - correct answer Inventory of words. (dictionary) Linguistic - correct answer Denoting language processing and language structure Linguistics - correct answer Study of pronunciation, properties, structure, meaning, and usage Logographic writing - correct answer Pictures represent words of a language Multiple meanings - correct answer Same word with many meanings (ambiguous) Polygot - correct answer A language made up of several languages . English is a polygon language Pragmatics - correct answer Rules of conversation and dialogue Rapid Automatized Naming - correct answer The rapid naming of a series of printed objects, colors, numbers, or letters that are repeated over and over in random order semantics - correct answer The MEANING of language Syntax - correct answer sentence structure and grammar Synthetic Instruction - correct answer Instruction beginning with the parts and builds to a whole Synthetic Phonics - correct answer Begins with individual sounds that are blended together to form a word Alexia - correct answer The loss of the ability to read, usually as the result of a TBI Articulation - correct answer The act of producing sounds Echolalia - correct answer Imitation of mother's sounds Hyperlexia - correct answer Superior reading WITHOUT comprehension Otitis Media - correct answer Inflammation of the middle ear that can lead to hearing loss. This can result in speech and language difficulties Phonology - correct answer Sounds of letters