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| The study and teaching of structure and development of a particular language, in this case, English, and its relationships to other languages. |
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| A child's process of knowing and using perception, memory, judgment,the process of knowing in the broadest sense. |
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| A student who is making a mistake with the order of adjectives and nouns is lacking understanding of this (i.e. students says "I live in a house red" instead of "I live in a red house." |
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| An individual sound such as those which can be represented by these spellings: ck, s, ll, ea,j, and qu. |
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| Giving children the opportunity to exchange ideas and information in a group of other children using gestures,Illustrations, writing or talking. |
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| A level of English that we want our students to attain. It is generally accepted as reliable in accord with a level of linguistic usage. |
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| Local characteristics of speech that a student may come to school using. This form of speech may be deviating from standard speech that I try to encourage. The language may be peculiar to a region or group. |
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| A set of phonetically similar but slightly different sounds in a language that are recognized by a native speaker. Sounds such as pin, spin, tip. |
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| We teach a set of symbols for each speech sound that can be distinguished. Students learn to represent the sounds in writing symbols. |
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| A dictionary of special vocabulary in a field of study. My students have created a lexicon of words about Bangladesh, our field of study in social studies. |
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| When children can make the connections between speech sounds and the writing system of the English language. |
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| The smallest unit of meaningful language. It may be an affix, i.e. un in undo, er in doer, ing in doing. |
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| The development and changes of meanings in the minds of the interpreter, children will sometimes twist or distort the meaning of words in trying to understand or categorize meanings. |
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| The internal structure and form of words. With syntax, it creates a division of grammar and the relationship to morphemes. |
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| The relationship of signs and symbols to their users. A student will become comfortable using their new found English in ways that make sense to them on a daily basis. |
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