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English Language Arts & Reading
Competency 001: Oral Language
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English
Undergraduate 4
04/08/2014

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What is Competency 001: Oral Language?
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The teacher understands the importance of oral language, knows the developmental processes of oral language, and provides the students with varied opportunities to develop listening and speaking skills.
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Language Acquisition
Definition
the combination of inate ability, imitation of what is said and heard, and multiple environmental influences.
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Who came up with LAD (language acquisition device)?
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Noam Chomsky. All humans posses an internal grammar.
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Imitation
Definition
the learning strategy that young children use to replicate someone's behavior, actions, phrases
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What is idiosyncratic?
Definition
an unusual way in which a particular person behaves or thinks
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Best way to support language development in young children______.
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is to model the appropriate way to speak.
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What are the basic 6 components of any given language?
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phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, semantics, and pragmatics.
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What is phonology?
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the study of the sound system of a language.
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What is phonemes?
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the basic units of sounds
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What are graphemes?
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are individual letters that represent phonemes
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What is morphology
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the study of the structure of words and formations
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what are morphemes
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the smallest representation of meaning

 

ex. car(has two morphes) the basic word (CAR) and the plural morpheme(CARs)

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what is syntax?
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it entails the ways in which sowrds are organized and arranged in a language.
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What is a lexicon?
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it refers to the vocabulary of a language

 

ex. The word hot has many meanings such as temperature, fashionable, and lucky

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What are semantics?
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they refer to the way that meaning is conveyed in a lanugage through the use of its vocabulary.
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What is connotation?
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it refers to the implied meaning of words and ideas
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What is denotation
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refers to the literal meaning of words and ideas.
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What is an idiom?
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an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own
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What are pragmatics?
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they describe how context can affect the interpretation of communication.
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Babbling or pre-language stage (0-6months)
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cry to communicate. play vocally using multiple linguistic and nonlinguistic sounds (ex. mmm, dada).
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Holophrastic one-word stage(11-19months)
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imitating inflections and facial expressions of adults. recognize their name.
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What are word concepts?
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The stored mental representation of a word.
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Two-word stage (13-24 months)
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begin producing rudimentary types of phrases.
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What does pivot mean in regards to the two-word stage?
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to words that can be used to accomplish multiple functions (ex. no, up, all, see, more, gone)
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What does open mean in regards to the two-word stage?
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refers to words that are generally used to refer to one concept. (ex. home, milk, doggy, juice, pants, shoe)
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Telegraphic Stage (18-27 months)
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the child goes beyond the two word stage. Children begin to use words in ways they heard them being used.
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What are content words?
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In linguistics content words are words such as nouns, most verbs, adjectives, and adverbs that refer to some object, action, or characteristic. Content words contrast with function words, which function primarily to express the grammatical relationships between otherwords in a sentence.
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What are function words?
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a word whose purpose is more to signal grammatical relationship than the lexical meaning of a sentence, e.g., do in do you live here?.
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Children Ages two - three years
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they have about 200-300 words they have redily available to use.
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Age 4
Definition
roughly 1500 words in their speaking banks. They tend to understand what they are saying and can produce questions but have difficulty giving reasons for answers.
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Age 5
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2100 vocab words. know progressive (-ing), regular past tense(-ed), and plurals(-s). Irregular verbs are still an issue.
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Age 6 and 7
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speaking 2100 words but 20,000 comprehension words in bank, sentence structure is appropriate,
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Ages 8 -12
Definition
pronouns come into play, and subordinated clauses (when, if, because)
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What is a prefix?
Definition
a word, letter, or number placed before another.
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What is a suffix?
Definition
a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation-fy-ing,-itis.
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What does AAVE stand for?
Definition
African American Vernacular English
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what is curvilinear?
Definition
it allows speakers the option of deviating from the main topic without being penalized
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what is TELPAS
Definition
Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System: designed to assess the language proficiency of ELLs in Texas
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What is holistic scoring?
Definition
is a method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality
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What are the four classifications of language disorders?
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Voice, fluency, articulation, and language processing
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Voice disorders are?
Definition
any type of distortion of pitch, timbre, or volume.
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What are the two types of voice disorders
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Phonation and Resonance
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What is phonation?
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describes any kind of abnormality in the vibration of the vocal fold
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What is resonance
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it describes abnormalities created when sound passes through the vocal tract
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Fluency Disorders?
Definition
Stuttering, Cluttering. Cluttering occurs when chidlren try to communicate in an excessively fast mode that makes comprehension dificult
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Articulation problems?
Definition
lisping. when the /s/, /sh/, /z/, /ch/
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Language processing disorder
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generally is caused by a brain-based disturbance called aphasia.
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What are the three types of aphasia?
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receptive, expressive, and global.
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receptive aphasia
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aka"sensory aphasia" results from a lesion to a region in the upper back part of the temperal lobe of the brain. it creates problems with listening
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Expressive aphasia
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from damage to the lower back part of the frontal lobe. affects speaking ability.
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Global Aphasia
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is also a brain-disorder that affects both the receptive and expressive features of language. little can be done to help a child with this condition.
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What is language play?
Definition
it involves the use of language in rhyme, alliteration, songs, and repeating patterns.
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What are pair interviews?
Definition
it is an additional strategy that can be used to promote oral communication.
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