LANGUAGE Flashcards

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Grammar

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structures and systems that make up a language

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Eight parts of speech that define grammar?

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nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections

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Syntax

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study of how words are combined to create sentences

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Mechanics

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describes those rules that govern english: punctuation, capitlaization

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nouns

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people, place, thing

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Pronouns

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she/her/hers etc

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possesive pronoun

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indicate possesion (mine)

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Reflexive/Intensive pronouns

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“I made the dessert myself”

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Relative pronouns

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begin dependent clauses “who, whch, whose, whom, which”

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Verbs

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express action

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Helping Verbs

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indicate tense

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verb tense : simple, continuos, perfect, perfect continuous.

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simple (occuring once), continous (ongoing), perfect & perfect continous (occuring in relation to other actions)

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13
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infinitive

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verb that has not been congugated

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conjugation

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changing spelling of verb tense/helping verb

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Prepositions

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Set up relationships in time/space

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Prepositional Phrase

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“I ran over the river and through the woods”

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Conjunctions

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Joins words into phrases and three types coordinating, correlative, and subordinating

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Coordinating conjuctions

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FANBOYS : For, As, Nor, But, Or , Yet, So

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Subordinating conjucntions

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join dependent clauses that cant stand on their own as sentences ex: because, as, as if, as though, after, as soon as

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Interjections

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wow! yikes! hey,

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Syntax

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phrases and clauses are made of subject predicate or both.

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subject

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what sentence is about

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predicate

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describe what the subject is doing

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phrase

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group of words that communicates an incomplete idea and lacks either subject or predicate or both

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clauses

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contain subject and predicate

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independent clauses

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can stand alone as a sentence “She ate her dog”

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dependent clauses

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cannot stand alone as sentence “because she ate her dog”

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Types of clauses

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Simple (1 independent), Compound
(2 independent), Complex (1 independent, 1 or more dependent), Compound complex (2 or more independent, 1 or more dependent)

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fragment

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when subject and verb needed

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comma splice

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incorrect error when comma seperates two independent clauses

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run on sentences

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two independent clauses joined without punctuation

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colon

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use for lists, defintion, clarification

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semicolon

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joins two independent clauses to reveal relationship (IC;IC)

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Quotes format

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“jffjfnjnfkenf,”().

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Apóstrofe rule

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boy’s - belonging
boys’ - mulyiple
boys’s - belonging to multiple

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Phonics

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relating sound to with certain group of letters (letter-sound correspondence)

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Phonemes

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basic units of sound and the basic units of language

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phonics instruction draws on the strategy of _________________ or the ability to pronunce the sounds of written words orally and understand their meaning.

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decoding

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systematic phonics instrcution

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most unviersal method for phonic instruction

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sight words

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require no decoding

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human brain uses 3 cueing systems to determine the meaning of words:

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semantic, syntactic, graphophonic

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Semantic cues

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offers prompts to a words meaning and are drawn from background knowledge and context clues

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Homographs

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words that are spelled the same but different meaning (desert, dessert)

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Homonyms

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Sound the same mean different

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Syntatic cues

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Based on the structure of language and brains second most efficient cueing system

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Graphophonic cues

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applying sounds and symbol knowledge from word

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Many educators use whole language instruction which does not use any cueing smaller than the word level

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true

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Roots

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building blocks of all words

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Prefixes

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elements added to begining of word

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Suffixes

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elements added to end of word

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Affixes

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prefixes and suffixes make

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Vocabulary is developed in two ways:

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incidental vocabulary learning: occurs while reading or independtly
intentional vocabulary learning : outright instruction guided like a Predict-O-Gram or Semantic Impressions, Frayer Model,OPIN, List group label

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Thesaures

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for synonyms for words

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disctionary

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defintion of words

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glossary

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list of terms and defintions at end of text

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index

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chapters and outline in front of book

57
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Sociolinguistics

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study of langugae and its implications to society and culture

58
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Communicative Comeptence involves:

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Linguistic, Sociolinguistic, discourse, strategic,

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Linguistic Competence

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knowledge of syntax and semantics

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Sociolinguistic Competence

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social aproprateness of language

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Discourse Competence

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knowledge of how to construct maller pieces of languge

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Strategic Competence

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able to recognize and repair instances of communciation breakdown