CTEL: Test 1 - Domain 001

Question 1

4 Features that may inhibit communication for different language groups

Answer 1

prosody, pronunciation with emphasis, avoiding contractions, pausing incorrectly between words

Question 2

Prosodic stress

Answer 2

Stress on sentence level

ex: KIM walked home. (emphasis on person)
ex: Kim WALKED home. (emphasis on action)
ex: Kim walked HOME. (emphasis on object)

Question 3

How phonology can inhibit communication

Answer 3

When a students sound system differs from the English Sound System:
Difficult to transfer what is not in the system: Sounds that do not occur in primary language.
Making different sounds to a word can change meaning.

Question 4

2 lexical moprhemes

Answer 4

Compound words: words made from 2 morphemes to create 1 word and different meaning
ex: Butterfly = Butter + fly

Question 5

How morphology can inhibit communication

Answer 5

When a plural is irregular

ex. Mouse (S) and Mice (p) and EL will over generalize and say mouses b/c they learned that House(s) is Houses (p)

Question 6

syntactic classes

Answer 6

Parts of speech in a sentence

• Noun- names persons, places, things or ideas
• preposition-links pronouns and nouns to the rest of the sentence

Question 7

Difficulties with semantics (4)

Answer 7

• transfer issues
• cultural reflection in primary language (concepts of time, money)
• understanding there are universals in all languages
• knowing that 70% of vocab in math and science are latin based

Question 8

Implications of syntax (2)

Answer 8

students need to be exposed to different sentence patterns both written and oral

they can be taught after acquisition so students can self monitor

Question 9

pragmatic features of oral/written language (7)

Answer 9

• gestures
• facial expressions
• eye contact
• proximity
• touching
• style/register
• silence

Question 10

commonalities between L1 and L2 acquisition (9)

Answer 10

• universals
• sounds
• stages
• motivation to understand
• survival
• repetition
• gestures
• modeling