OAE 055 Test Prep UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Children develop phonological awareness:
A. Only through direct training given by adults
B. Only naturally through exposure to language
C. Via both natural expires and direct training
D. His brother incidental exposure not instruction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Via both
natural expires and direct training
Young children are more likely to respond to analogies in stories rather than to metaphors
because:
A. They are old enough to understand the abstract thinking and symbolism that analogies
express
B. The ability to understand the kinds of abstraction expressed in metaphors is not developed
until later in childhood
C. They can apply the concepts expressed in analogies to their own daily lives but metaphors
do not compare things that children are familiar with
D. Metaphors and symbols are usually found only in books that children find boring because
of their abstractions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. The ability to understand the kinds of
abstraction expressed in metaphors is not developed until later in childhood
Young children's skills in phonological awareness are focused on:
A. Morphologies
B. Speech sounds
C. Word meanings
D. Word sequence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. Speech sounds
Which of the following is the earliest phonological feature to be independently recognizable
in a typically developing child:
,A. Syllables
B. Alliteration
C. Rhyming
D. Letter sound relationships - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Rhyming
Which of the following has research found most predictive of children's future long term
literacy performance:
A. Their scores on standardized intelligence tests
B. Their family's relative socioeconomic status
C. Their phonological and phonemic awareness
D. Their early knowledge of vocabulary words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Their
phonological and phonemic awareness
What statement is accurate regarding normally developing oral language in children:
A. There is a considerable range of ages within normal individual growth
B. There are bo individual differences amount developmental milestones
C. Individual children achieve oral language milestones at specified ages
D. Individual children all develop spoken language skills at the same rates - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- A. There is a considerable range of ages within normal individual growth
To support EC language development experts advise which of the following teacher
practices:
A. Asking children linear or one way questions
B. Doing most of the talking in their classrooms
C. Focusing on durations of verbal interactions
D. Asking children more open ended questions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D. Asking
children more open ended questions
, A student learning English as a second language who has limited comprehension of English
and can speak one to two word English answers, essential English words, present tense
English verbs, and some familiar English phrases is in which stage of second language
acquisition:
A. Preproduction
B. Early production
C. Speech emergence
D. Intermediate fluency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. Early production
A child who omits, substitutes, or distorts certain speech sounds beyond the usual age range
norms is most likely to have:
A. An articulation disorder
B. A type of voice disorder
C. One specific type of aphasia
D. Delayed language development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A. An articulation disorder
A four year old child who does not correctly or clearly produce the speech sounds /r/ and /s/:
A. Likely has delayed language development
B. Likely has normal articulatory development
C. Likely has some degree of hearing impairment
D. Likely needs early intervention for stuttering - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. Likely has
normal articulatory development
The alphabetic principle is the best defined as the concept that:
A. The letters of the alphabet arranged in a specific sequence
B. The letters of the alphabet are combined to spell various words
C. The letters of the alphabet represent corresponding phonemes
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Children develop phonological awareness:
A. Only through direct training given by adults
B. Only naturally through exposure to language
C. Via both natural expires and direct training
D. His brother incidental exposure not instruction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Via both
natural expires and direct training
Young children are more likely to respond to analogies in stories rather than to metaphors
because:
A. They are old enough to understand the abstract thinking and symbolism that analogies
express
B. The ability to understand the kinds of abstraction expressed in metaphors is not developed
until later in childhood
C. They can apply the concepts expressed in analogies to their own daily lives but metaphors
do not compare things that children are familiar with
D. Metaphors and symbols are usually found only in books that children find boring because
of their abstractions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. The ability to understand the kinds of
abstraction expressed in metaphors is not developed until later in childhood
Young children's skills in phonological awareness are focused on:
A. Morphologies
B. Speech sounds
C. Word meanings
D. Word sequence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. Speech sounds
Which of the following is the earliest phonological feature to be independently recognizable
in a typically developing child:
,A. Syllables
B. Alliteration
C. Rhyming
D. Letter sound relationships - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Rhyming
Which of the following has research found most predictive of children's future long term
literacy performance:
A. Their scores on standardized intelligence tests
B. Their family's relative socioeconomic status
C. Their phonological and phonemic awareness
D. Their early knowledge of vocabulary words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Their
phonological and phonemic awareness
What statement is accurate regarding normally developing oral language in children:
A. There is a considerable range of ages within normal individual growth
B. There are bo individual differences amount developmental milestones
C. Individual children achieve oral language milestones at specified ages
D. Individual children all develop spoken language skills at the same rates - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- A. There is a considerable range of ages within normal individual growth
To support EC language development experts advise which of the following teacher
practices:
A. Asking children linear or one way questions
B. Doing most of the talking in their classrooms
C. Focusing on durations of verbal interactions
D. Asking children more open ended questions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- D. Asking
children more open ended questions
, A student learning English as a second language who has limited comprehension of English
and can speak one to two word English answers, essential English words, present tense
English verbs, and some familiar English phrases is in which stage of second language
acquisition:
A. Preproduction
B. Early production
C. Speech emergence
D. Intermediate fluency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. Early production
A child who omits, substitutes, or distorts certain speech sounds beyond the usual age range
norms is most likely to have:
A. An articulation disorder
B. A type of voice disorder
C. One specific type of aphasia
D. Delayed language development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A. An articulation disorder
A four year old child who does not correctly or clearly produce the speech sounds /r/ and /s/:
A. Likely has delayed language development
B. Likely has normal articulatory development
C. Likely has some degree of hearing impairment
D. Likely needs early intervention for stuttering - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- B. Likely has
normal articulatory development
The alphabetic principle is the best defined as the concept that:
A. The letters of the alphabet arranged in a specific sequence
B. The letters of the alphabet are combined to spell various words
C. The letters of the alphabet represent corresponding phonemes
