SUBTEST 2

Question 1

4What is vocabulary?

Answer 1

A set of words or phrases. A person has five different vocabularies:

1. Listening vocabulary: Consists of the words you understand when listening to other people speak.
2. Speaking vocabulary: Consists of words you use when you talk.
3. Writing vocabulary: Consists of the words used when writing.
4. Sight (reading) vocabulary: Consists of words you can recognize and correctly pronounce.
5. Meaning vocabulary: Consists of the words you understand when reading silently.

Question 2

What is academic language?

Answer 2

The language used in textbooks and tests; it is the language of the classroom.

Technical academic language refers to words related to a specific discipline (also called domain-specific).

Non-technical academic language runs across disciplines and includes such words as theory, hypothesis, analysis, etc.

Question 3

What is background knowledge?

Answer 3

Refers to what you know about a topic.

Students will not comprehend what they are reading if they lack essential background knowledge.

Background knowledge is the foundation upon which greater knowledge can be built.

Question 4

What is a morpheme?

Answer 4

The most elemental unit of meaning in a language (some words and all affixes).

Question 5

What is an affix?

Answer 5

An affix is either a prefix (a morpheme that appears before a root word) or a suffix (a morpheme that appears after a root word).

A free morpheme can be uttered alone with meaning (e.g., test); a bound morpheme are prefixes and suffixes that cannot occur alone as they must be attached to a root word (e.g., un-, -est).