ALTA Practice CALT LEAD Questions and Correct Answers .

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