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Latest Update and more Exams English Language in PDF only on Docsity! ALTA Exam: Part 2 Questions And Answers Latest Update Phoneme - The smallest unit of sound in spoken language that makes one word different from another "g" usually has a (g) sound before - a, o, u, or any consonant Structural analysis is related to the study of... - Prefixes, base words, and suffixes Interactive Components/Domain Model of Reading - Oral Language Reading Written Language Attention/Working Memory Processing Speed Phonological processing - An umbrella term for a large category of ORAL language processing abilities that are related to the SOUNDS in words and are associated with the ability to READ well (phonological memory, phonological awareness, and naming speed) 3 Parts of phonological processing - Phonological memory, phonological awareness, and naming speed Phonological memory - holding information about sounds and words in memory Phonological awareness - both the knowledge of and sensitivity to the phonological structure of words in language. Phonological awareness includes... - Rhyming, segmentation activities, and manipulation activities Pragmatics (Component of Language) - Use Phonology (Component of Language) - Form Orthography (Component of Language) - Form Semantics (Component of Language) - Meaning Syntax (Component of Language) - Form Morphology (Component of Language) - Form Liquid - consonants that contain l, r of American English Nasal - consonants in which air is blocked in the mouth but escapes through the nose (m, n, ng) Voiced-Voiceless Cognates - consonants produced in the same place of the mouth and in the same manner but that vary in the voicing characteristics (e.g.: k and g) Phonological Awareness activities - Rhyming, alliteration, segmenting words in a sentence, segmenting syllables in words, and omitting syllables Phonemic Awareness activities - Syllable splitting; segmenting, blending, changing, and omitting sounds; and identifying initial, medial, and final sounds. Fluency - translation of print to speech with accuracy, speed, prosody, and comprehension Repeated reading - method to increase fluency. Students read with a different focus: attention to accuracy, attention to punctuation, and intonation, and attention to phrasing Orthography - the writing system of a language; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage Multisensory - visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile Dysgraphia - Extremely poor handwriting or the inability to perform the motor movements required for handwriting. (neurological, born) Chameleon prefix - a prefix whose final consonant changes based on the initial letter of the root (in- changes to ir- before responsible) Stem - a bound morpheme (must have an affix) base word - a word to which affixes can be added, but can also stand alone morpheme - the smallest meaningful linguistic unit (a base word, suffix, or prefix) bound morpheme - a morpheme that must be attached to other morphemes (ed in "spotted" or s in "boys" or pre in "preview") free morpheme - a morpheme that can stand alone (plant, box, tame) inflectional endings or suffixes - a morpheme that can be added to the end of a word to show tense, number, or person of a verb, plural or possessive of a noun, or comparative or superlative form of an adjective (ed in floated, s in tales, er in thinner)
