exam

Question 1

intonation

Answer 1

the way the voice rises and falls in speech

Question 2

morpheme

Answer 2

the smallest unit of meaning in a language

Question 3

Abraham Maslow

Answer 3

developed teh hierarchy of needs which he theorized to be the unconscious desires that motivate people

Question 4

subordinating conjunction

Answer 4

join the dependent clause to an independent clause to which it is related

Question 5

voiceless sound

Answer 5

sounds made without vibrating vocal cords

Question 6

howard gardner

Answer 6

multiple intelligence theory

Question 7

independent or main clause

Answer 7

a clause that can stand alone as its own sentence

Question 8

one word stage

Answer 8

stage of language acquisition, characterized by child’s use of a single word to convey a full meaning

Question 9

classification criteria

Answer 9

used to determine when English learners have achieved the language skills necessary to succeed in English only classrooms

Question 10

humor stage

Answer 10

stage of acculturalization, when students start to come to terms with their circumstances and move toward acceptance of their new culture

Question 11

SIFE

Answer 11

students with interrupted formal education

Question 12

grade equivalent

Answer 12

score found using the average score of students who fail into that grade

Question 13

labial consonant sound

Answer 13

sound produced by the top and bottom lip coming together; example M

Question 14

Gerund phrase

Answer 14

begins with noun form of verb ending in -ing

Question 15

connotation

Answer 15

the implied or associative meaning of a word

Question 16

Woodcock-Munoz language survey

Answer 16

an individually administered assessment that measures cognitive aspects of language proficiency in the form vocabulary usage, verbal analogies, and letter word

Question 17

audio lingual method

Answer 17

an oral based approach to language instruction developed by linguists and behavioral psychologists; teaches the target language through repetition

Question 18

phonetics

Answer 18

study of the production of sounds in speech

Question 19

silent way

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teaching method based on the idea that language learning should be much like problem solving and discovery learning; teachers are as silent as possible during lessons to promote student participation

Question 20

age equivalent score

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found using the average score of students within an age group

Question 21

dependent or subordinate clause

Answer 21

clause that cannot stand alone as its own sentence

Question 22

inferential item

Answer 22

a piece of infromation that requires the test taker to read between the lines in order to determine what an author is implying

Question 23

communicative competence

Answer 23

the ability to speak a language both appropriatly in a social context as well as correctly in terms of rules adn structures