Session 4 Flashcards
- discourse competence
arranging words or texts into cohesive conversations
- strategic competence
using strategies to keep a conversation going when you get stuck speaking in L2
- irregular verbs
verbs that completely change form when changing tense- eat, ate, eaten
- irregular nouns
nouns that do not add an S when becoming plural- man to men, foot to feet
- irregular spelling
words that are not spelled like they sound- said vs sed
- communicative competence
a person’s ability to use grammar, syntax, phonology to communicate clearly
- How does spoken English differ syntactically from written English?
Spoken English oftentimes repeats words and has incomplete sentences. Written text includes punctuation. Speech uses tone, volume to add emotion. Sometimes speech is more informal, slang
- List 3 ways to spell the English phoneme i
ee, i, ie
- What kinds of words most frequently occur in a reduced form in natural speech
gonna, hafta, wanna
- What types of utterances have a rising intonation pattern
surprise, question, politeness, hesitation, insecurity
- declarative sentence
a statement (to declare)
- interrogative sentence
asks a question (interrogate)
- tag question
question tagged at the end of statement- It’s red, isn’t it?
- direct object
Ask who or what receives the action. Heidi passed the candy.
- indirect object
after you find the direct object, ask “to who”. Heidi passed the candy to me.
- indefinite article
A or an- shows something is not specific
- idiom
expression that can’t be explained literally- over the moon
- present perfect progressive
began in past and continues up to the present- I have been waiting for you.
- what are phrasal verbs
verbs that change meaning according to how they are paired- pick vs pick up, give vs give up
- What is one problem of Arabic speakers learning English?
they pronounce consonants that should be silent - apostles :)
- What is one problem of Spanish speakers learning English?
They forget the s in 3rd person- He play all day.
- What is one problem of Chinese speakers learning English?
word stress- when a Chinese word is stressed differently it completely changes the meaning but not so in English
- Difference between simultaneous and sequential bilingualism
Students learn 2 languages at same time vs learning one language then another
- Define interlanguage
Language used by ELLs as they are learning a 2nd language- combo of L2 and pigeon language
- List rhetoric patterns in writing
Cause and effect, classification, compare and contrast, description, narration
- Define orthography
Writing words with correct spelling
- What is one example of an utterance that shows evidence of language transfer?
Speakers apply knowledge from native language to a second language
