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Language Arts Terminology
Terms needed for TEXES EXAM
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Undergraduate 4
03/03/2008

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Phonology
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the study of the sound system of a language
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phonemes
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basic units of sound
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graphemes
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letters (or symbols) that represent phonemes (a.k.a. sounds).
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morphology
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study of the structure of words and word formation
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morphemes
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smallest representation of meaning; knowledge in this particular area will help students in word analysis
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lexicon
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vocabulary of a language; keep in mind that vocabulary is the most changeable component in language
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semantics
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describes the way that meaning is conveyed in a language

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connotation
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the implied meaning of words and ideas
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denotation
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the literal meaning of words and ideas

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pragmatics
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describes how context can affect interpretation of communication
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Phonation disorder
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a disorder that describes any kind of abnormality in the vibration of the vocal fold.
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Resonance
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describes abnormalities created when sound passes through the vocal tract

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receptive aphasia
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results from a lesion to the a region in the upper back part of the temporal lobe of the brain; this creates problems with listening comprehension and retrieval of words from memory
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Expressive aphasia
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results from damage to the lower back part of the frontal lobe; this affects speaking ability and causes problems with articulation and fluency

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Phonemic awareness
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ability to understand that words have smaller components called sounds & that these sounds together create syllables and words.
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alliteration
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a literacy technique used to emphasize phoenes by using successive words that begin with the same consonant sound or letter

 

ex.  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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syllabication
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the ability to conceptualize and separate words into their basic pronunication components which are syllables.
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skills based approach
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emphasizes phonics instruction
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meaning-based approach

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promotes reading comprehension and enrichment
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alphabetic principle
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the ability to connect letters of the alphabet with the sounds that they produce
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pictographic writing systems
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designed to represent words or ideas with a visual immage representing the concept
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syllabic writing
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represents syllables with signs; more efficient than pictographic writing

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alphabetic writing
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uses sounds of the language as a basic unit for writing; english and spanish use this kind of system
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Phonics
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method of teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by teachign them the phonetic value of letters, letter groups, and syllables.
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top-down approach
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begins with the whole and then proceeds to its individual parts; represents the Whole Language approach.
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miscue analysis
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a process that begins with a child reading a selection orally, and an examiner noting variations of the oral reading from the printed text.
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word analysis
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the way that children approach a written word in order to decode and obtain meaning from it.
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dolch/sight words
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220 of the most frequently used words in the English language according to Edward Dolch; if children recognize these, they can become more fluent readers
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context clues
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help identify unknown words
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semantic cues
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require a child to think about the meanings of words, and what is already known about the topic being read.
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syntactic clues
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provides clues detailing the word order in sentence.

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structural clues
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clues that pay special attention to morphemes (letter groups)
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derivational morphemes
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prefixes, suffixes; may change the syntactic classification of a word
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