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phonology ✔✔Study of a sound system of language
Generation 1.5 ✔✔kids born elsewhere but heavily socialized in the us
Plyler v Doe ✔✔states can't deny education for illegal
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phonology ✔✔Study of a sound system of language
Generation 1.5 ✔✔kids born elsewhere but heavily socialized in the us
Plyler v Doe ✔✔states can't deny education for illegal immigrants amendment 14
ELL ✔✔English Language Learner
CALP ✔✔(Cognitive academic language proficiency) the language ability needed for learning
academic skills
Largest Language group in Florida ✔✔Spanish
Inflectional ✔✔adds es, s, ed, ing, er does not change the meaning of the word
Idiom ✔✔an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that
make it up- Don't cry over spiled milk
Partial Immersion ✔✔half of the day spent learning L2
Nonverbal communication ✔✔communication using body movements, gestures, and facial
expressions rather than speech
Intonation ✔✔rise and fall of the voice pitch
Free morpheme ✔✔A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.
Minimal pairs ✔✔A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are recognized by
speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare
State with the highest population of ELLS ✔✔California, then texas, florida
Lexical ambiguity ✔✔A situation in which a word has two or more meanings. Example: penwriting instrument pen- a place where pigs live
Look by the pen
Maxim of quantity ✔✔A speaker must not give more or less information than required
maxim of quality ✔✔say what you know or assume to be true, and do not say what you know to
be false.
Maxim of Relevance ✔✔be relevant
Maxim of Manner ✔✔The speaker must be concise and neat in his speech, not opaque or
ambiguous
9.7% ✔✔What percent yearly is the ELL population growing
pragmatics ✔✔the study of language use
Castaneda v Pickard ✔✔1981 Court mandated a 3-step process to develop quality bilingual
education: programs based on research, have adequate resources and provide opportunities for
students to have access to the full curriculum.
15 credit hours ✔✔The florida consent degree says that teacher should have how many hours in
TESOL training
Lau v Nichols ✔✔1974 States must provide bilingual education or some type of support for
students whose native language is not English. Must have equal access to education
NCLB ✔✔2001 Pres. Bush designed to promote "standards-based education reform" via
assessments that measure yearly progress
Tesol ✔✔Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
ESOL ✔✔English for speakers of other languages
ESL ✔✔English as a second language
EFL ✔✔English as a Foreign Language
phonology ✔✔the sound system of a language
Phonemes ✔✔Are distinctive sound units that "Make a difference" when sounds form words.
Minimal Pairs ✔✔A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are recognized by
speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare
phonemic sequence ✔✔permissible patterns for combing phonemes
phonemic syllabication ✔✔word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with a
vowel
Ex: has it, give it, give up
Stress ✔✔changes the meaning of words
Ex: H/e did that?
He d/id that?
He did th/at?
Intonation ✔✔rise and fall of the voice, doesn't change word meaning.
Emotions, anger, impatience
Morphology ✔✔The study of word formation, deals with the internal structure of words within
language
Functional words ✔✔words that we can't do without, (i.e. I me mine, he she)
Lexical words ✔✔Relate directly to objects, ideas, actions and description. They have a
definable meaning.
morpheme ✔✔in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
Free morpheme ✔✔A morpheme that can stand alone as a word
ex house
Bound Morpheme ✔✔has to be attached to something else for it to mean something
Derivational morphemes ✔✔affixes that can be added to a morpheme to change its meaning and
may change its part of speech ex non, un, re
Inflectional morphemes ✔✔Examples: er, es, ing, Do not change the syntactic classification, and
typically follow derivational morphemes.
Syntax ✔✔the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntactical ✔✔Rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
Lexical ambiguity ✔✔A situation in which a word has two or more meanings. Example: penwriting instrument pen- a place where pigs live
Semantics ✔✔the study of meaning in language
Lexical Decomposition ✔✔breaking down words into their more basic meaning "components"
or semantic features
Synonyms ✔✔words that have similar meanings
gradable antonyms ✔✔stand on either side of a spectrum.
Big, and small, hot and cold. There are things in the middle.
converse antonyms ✔✔Under above, doctor patient
entailment ✔✔The meaning of the Word is logically connected to another word. piglet is
connected to a pig
extension ✔✔act of expanding in scope
Cat includes tigers, dogs, horses ect.
prototype ✔✔a standard or typical example
heteronym ✔✔one of two or more words that are spelled alike but have different meanings and
pronunciations, such as bass voice and bass, a fish
discourse ✔✔extended verbal expression in speech or writing, or to carry on a conversation
dialect ✔✔a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Isoglosses ✔✔The definitional boundaries of a dialect.
Phonological variations ✔✔a situation where there are differences in the distribution of sounds
in two varieties" look at them=dem"
Morphological variation ✔✔differences between how morphemes are distributed (hisself vs
himself for possesive)
syntactical variation ✔✔Differences between two "accents?"
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