EPt 127

Question 1

new forms of literacy made possible by digital technology developments, although new literacies do not necessarily have to involve use of digital technologies to be recognized as such.

Answer 1

New Literacies

Question 2

How many models of schooling are there

Answer 2

3
Industrial
Critical
Inquiry

Question 3

Industrial model of schooling

Answer 3

emphasises compliance, punctuality and accountability

Question 4

Inquiry and Critical Models of schooling

Answer 4

encourages students to select personally meaningful topics and issues, to use authentic texts (literature), to collaborate with others and to consider alternative perspectives

Question 5

6 Guiding principles that impact the type of curriculum, materials and activities taht teachers make available in classrooms

Answer 5

Principle 1:Literacy practices are socially and culturally constructed

Principle 2: Literacy practices are purposeful

principle 3: literacy practices are contain ideologies and values

principle 4: literacy practices are learned thourgh inquiry

princple 5: literacy practices invite readers and writers to use their background knowledge and cultural understandings to make sense of texts

Principle 6
Literacy practices expand to include everyday texts and multi modal texts

Question 6

Literacy definition

Answer 6

The Australian Curriculum (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
Authority, 2014) defines literacy as encompassing:
the knowledge and skills students need to access, understand, analyse and evaluate
information, make meaning, express thoughts and emotions, present ideas and
opinions, interact with others and participate in activities at school and in their lives
beyond school.

Question 7

2 kinds of approaches to phonics

Answer 7

A synthetic phonics approach
starts with a limited set of letters that are taught by the sounds they represent and built into different kinds of
words. Gradually more letters are added and then consonant blends and other combinations are introduced.
The analytic approach is designed to exploit the alphabetic principle. It encourages learners to look at whole
words and break them down into their phonemes

Question 8

ability to express what you want to say clearly without ambiguity

Answer 8

Expressive language

Question 9

ability to hear and understand what other are saying

Answer 9

Receptive Language

Question 10

the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used, including such matters as deixis, the taking of turns in conversation, text organization, presupposition, and implicature

Answer 10

Pragmatics

Question 11

Components of Language

Answer 11

5 components
Phonology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Vocabulary

Question 12

Phonology

Answer 12

the system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.
the study of phonological relationships within a language or between different languages.

Question 13

Syntax

Answer 13

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
“the syntax of English”
2.
the structure of statements in a computer language.

Question 14

Semantics

Answer 14

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.
the meaning of a word, phrase, or text.

Question 15

vocabulary

Answer 15

the body of words used in a particular language.
“a comparison of the vocabularies of different languages”
synonyms: lexicon, word stock, lexis
“they are intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary”
2.
a range of artistic or stylistic forms, techniques, or movements.