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Competency 001-Terminology Flashcards

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WHAT IS BICS

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Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills

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WHAT IS L1

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Student’s first language

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WHAT IS TELPAS

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Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System

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WHAT IS LEP

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Limited English Proficiency

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WHAT IS CALP

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Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

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WHAT IS TESOL

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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

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WHAT IS LPAC

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Language Proficiency Assessment Committee

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WHAT IS ELPs

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English Language Proficiency Standards

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WHAT IS ESOL

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English to Speakers of Other Languages

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WHAT IS L2

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Second Language

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What does Science Inquiry?

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Promotes thinking and reasoning that involves literacy and science learning.

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Examples of Language Fuctions

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describing, hypothesizing, explaining, predicting, and reflecting.

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Examples of science inquiries and process skills

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observing, describing, explaining, predicting, estimating, representing, and inferring.

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What is included in English Language Proficiency.

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Knowledge of Conventions of Literacy such as: syntax, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation.

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What is decoding?

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It’s the process of reading words in text. It is necessary to: recognize the letters, associate the sound of the letter, understand how the sounds work together to make words, and blend the letter sounds together to create speech.

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What is encoding?

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It’s the process of using letter-sound knowledge to write. It is necessary to recall sounds and the symbols assigned to them to write the letters together to form words

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What is denotation?

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It’s the literal definition of a word, as one would find in a dictionary. Words with multiple meanings: each one is a denotation of the word.

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What is connotation?

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It’s a word in underlying emotion or feeling associated with that word that is not noted in the literal definition of the term. e.g. Connotation of dwelling vs. home. Both words mean the same, but dwelling has a negative connotation because people will not feel emotionally attached to a dwelling, but to a home.

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Diagraph (consonants)

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Is a combination of two consonant letters that make one completely new speech sound: ch/pitcher, gh/rough, ng/singer, ph/photo, sh/ship, th(voiceless)/thank, th(voiced)/the, wh/when.

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Diagraph (vowels)

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Is a combination of two vowel letters that make one completely new speech sound: ai/aim, pain, ay/player, maybe, ea/eat, sea, ee/eel, feet, oa/oak, boat, ow/own, tow.

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Morpheme

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It’s the smallest unit of meaning in a language that cannot be further divided. It can be a letter, syllable, word, or phoneme, but it must have a meaning and cannot be divided further. E.g. “dogs” have two morphemes: dog (as a word), and s (as a suffix). Where dog means an animal that can be domesticated, and “s” represents the plural. The word dogs cannot be divided any further than dog/s.

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Affixes

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Are bound morphemes that occur before (prefix) or after (suffix) a base word.

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Derivational Affixes

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Change the meaning of the word. E.g. adding “un” to kind= unkind (antonym). Act is a verb, adding suffix “or” actor= noun.

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Inflectional Affixes

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Only modify the words without altering the meaning. E.g. plurals, comparative (taller than), verb tense: climb for climbing, walk for walked.

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Fluency

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Ability to read a text accurately, with proper speed, automaticity and prosody.

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Prosody

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It’s reading at grade level with correct Intonation, expression and phrasing.

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Automaticity

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Ability to rapidly, effortlessly, and accurately recognize no decoded words.

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Accuracy in fluency

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Ability to read correctly between 97 to 100% of the text words per minute. (Independent level). 90-96% word recognition accuracy (instruction level), and less than 90% (frustration level).

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Phonological Awareness

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Is the foundation for reading and phonics. It’s the ability to recognize that words are made up of different sound units and the ability to manipulate units of sounds in spoken words and sentences. Understanding the sound structure of language including rhymes, syllables, phonemes, words in sentences.

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Cognate

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group of words in different languages that come from the same etymological origin; and because they descend from the same word, cognates often have similar meanings and/or spelling.

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Discourse

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in linguistics is a unit of language longer than a sentence, such as a paragraph or an essay. The discourse of language in a social context, is any piece of verbal or written communication.

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Graphophonics

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Is the awareness of the letter-sound correspondence or grapheme-phoneme correspondence. It is used as the visual cueing source in reading. The other 2 cueing sources are meaning and structure.

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Language Registers

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Is the way a speaker uses language differently, in different circumstances. The registers can be categorized based on audience, topic, purpose, location or social setting. There are 5 language registers: frozen (preamble of constitution), formal (work, academic, etc.), consultative (lawyer, doctor, boss), casual or informal (friends, family), Intimate (personal and private).

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Lexical Ambiguity

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is the presence of two or more possible meanings for a single word within a sentence and causes more than one possible interpretation the additional information typically supplies context that clarifies which meaning is intended to express.

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Lexicon

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It is the collection of words that any individual uses on a daily basis and that are distinguished according to the country where they live, their profession, literacy level, hobbies, area of interest, etc., and includes academic vocabulary but also colloquialisms, idioms, jargon and slangs.

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Morphology

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Is the branch of linguistics that studies the word structures, parts of words and how words are formed.

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Phonology

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is the study of the system and patterns of the speech sounds in a language: A language’s sound system is made up of a set of phonemes which are used according to phonological rules.

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Phoneme

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is the smallest unit of sound in the language. Phonemes are language-specific - there are 44 phonemes in the English language (20 vowel and 24 consonant sounds.

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Graphemes

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Are the smallest units of written language. Are symbols that represent phonemes.

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Phonics

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It’s the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. The letter-sound correspondence. Is the connection between sounds and written symbols (phoneme-grapheme).

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Phonemic awareness

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It’s the auditory ability to work with the individual sound or phoneme in spoken words. Doesn’t involve print.

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Pragmatics

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Is a branch of linguistics that studies the use of languages in a social context, rather than the literal meaning or grammar.

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Semantics

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Is the study of meaning in language. The study of how languages organize and express meanings word and sentence meanings and their relations.

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Syntax

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Is the study of arrangement or order of words in any language to produce a meaningful sentence. It studies the structure and correct formation of sentences .

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Grammar

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Is a collection of principles of syntax and rules that are used to define the structure of a sentence.

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When is acquired Linguistic Competence?

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Acquired when a person has achieved all four aspects of language (phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax).

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When has an individual acquired the Communicative Competence?

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It has been acquired when an individual can verbally communicate appropriately in their everyday speaking in a variety of social situations.

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