Language and Literacy Exam 1 2025
Questions and Answers
Academic Talk - ANS To succeed in school, students need: knowledge of academic content
(the right answers to teacher questions) and their knowledge of the social communication rules
of the classroom.
Hidden Curriculum - ANS The unspoken set of rules and expectations about how to behave
and communicate in the classroom setting that are key to school success (Westby, 2007).
decontextualized language - ANS
Classrooms and Culture - ANS
Metalinguistic Skills - ANS Defining words; recognizing synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms;
diagramming sentences and identifying parts of speech; recognizing grammatical and
morphological errors in the process of editing writing assignments; recognizing ambiguity in
words and structures with multiple meanings; and the metalinguistic skills needed to acquire
reading and spelling competency all require an awareness of language beyond the ability to use
words and sentences to communicate.
Metacognitive Skills and Self Regulation - ANS Ability to reflect on, talk about, and manage
one's thinking processes. Figuring out what needs to be done to accomplish a task, create a
plan, carry it out, and evaluate whether the task has been completed successfully. Allocating
cognitive resources, such as attention, planning, impulse control, and organizing when faced
with a complex task. Provide the foundation for executive function, or self-regulation.
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, Oral Language and Classroom Discourse - ANS Academic Talk
Hidden Curriculum
Decontextualized Language
Classroom and Culture
Metalinguistic Skills
Metacognitive Skills and Self-Regulation
Oral Language in the Acquisition of Literacy - ANS Aside from the oral language demands of
classroom discourse, oral language plays a second crucial role in school success: It lays the
foundation for acquiring literacy.
Reading and writing are language-based skills that use visual input as a portal into the language-
processing system (Catts, Compton, Tomblin, & Bridges, 2012; Catts & Kamhi, 2005a; Harlaar et
al., 2008; Nation, Cocksey, Taylor, & Bishop, 2010; Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2016; Snowling &
Stackhouse, 1996; Vellutino, 1979; Wallach, 2004; Watson, 2003).
The implication of this shift in focus is that experts in language development (like SLPs) are seen
as having a great deal to contribute to the understanding of literacy development and to the
promotion of its growth (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2010).
Because SLPs have such a strong background in oral language development, we are in an
excellent position to influence how reading is taught, both in our role in assisting general
education teachers provide the most effective tiered instruction to students.
Three Foundations of Oral Language in the Acquisition of Literacy - ANS One foundation for
literacy development has been termed "emergent literacy" period from birth to the beginning
of formal education when children acquire knowledge of letters, words, phonological
awareness, and books/print contcepts through early literacy experiences in which children
begin to develop ideas about how written language works and what it is used for before they
actually begin decoding. These experiences include everyday events like recognizing and
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Questions and Answers
Academic Talk - ANS To succeed in school, students need: knowledge of academic content
(the right answers to teacher questions) and their knowledge of the social communication rules
of the classroom.
Hidden Curriculum - ANS The unspoken set of rules and expectations about how to behave
and communicate in the classroom setting that are key to school success (Westby, 2007).
decontextualized language - ANS
Classrooms and Culture - ANS
Metalinguistic Skills - ANS Defining words; recognizing synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms;
diagramming sentences and identifying parts of speech; recognizing grammatical and
morphological errors in the process of editing writing assignments; recognizing ambiguity in
words and structures with multiple meanings; and the metalinguistic skills needed to acquire
reading and spelling competency all require an awareness of language beyond the ability to use
words and sentences to communicate.
Metacognitive Skills and Self Regulation - ANS Ability to reflect on, talk about, and manage
one's thinking processes. Figuring out what needs to be done to accomplish a task, create a
plan, carry it out, and evaluate whether the task has been completed successfully. Allocating
cognitive resources, such as attention, planning, impulse control, and organizing when faced
with a complex task. Provide the foundation for executive function, or self-regulation.
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, Oral Language and Classroom Discourse - ANS Academic Talk
Hidden Curriculum
Decontextualized Language
Classroom and Culture
Metalinguistic Skills
Metacognitive Skills and Self-Regulation
Oral Language in the Acquisition of Literacy - ANS Aside from the oral language demands of
classroom discourse, oral language plays a second crucial role in school success: It lays the
foundation for acquiring literacy.
Reading and writing are language-based skills that use visual input as a portal into the language-
processing system (Catts, Compton, Tomblin, & Bridges, 2012; Catts & Kamhi, 2005a; Harlaar et
al., 2008; Nation, Cocksey, Taylor, & Bishop, 2010; Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2016; Snowling &
Stackhouse, 1996; Vellutino, 1979; Wallach, 2004; Watson, 2003).
The implication of this shift in focus is that experts in language development (like SLPs) are seen
as having a great deal to contribute to the understanding of literacy development and to the
promotion of its growth (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2010).
Because SLPs have such a strong background in oral language development, we are in an
excellent position to influence how reading is taught, both in our role in assisting general
education teachers provide the most effective tiered instruction to students.
Three Foundations of Oral Language in the Acquisition of Literacy - ANS One foundation for
literacy development has been termed "emergent literacy" period from birth to the beginning
of formal education when children acquire knowledge of letters, words, phonological
awareness, and books/print contcepts through early literacy experiences in which children
begin to develop ideas about how written language works and what it is used for before they
actually begin decoding. These experiences include everyday events like recognizing and
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