CALT Exam Practice Questions and Answers with Complete Verified Solutions Graded A 2024

Strephosymbolia - Learning disorder in which symbols and especially phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading. Who coined word "Strephosymbolia" to differentiate between itself and "word-blindness"? - Samuel Orton What is synthetic teaching - Part to whole (teaching letter sounds, building up to blending to make words) What is analytic teaching - Whole to part What researcher has the most current finding of phonemic awareness? - Reid Lyons What is quantitative research? - Research in which numerical data are collected and statistically analyzed using a large sample. What is qualitative research? - Research that collects data through various observations. What is experimental research? - Research in which subjects are randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. What is quasi-experimental research? - Research in which subjects are NOT randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Which activity uses both analytic and synthetic teaching? - Syllable division Forms of language (3) - Phonology, morphology, and syntax What is dyspraxia? - Speech problems caused by sensorimotor disruption. What is dysarthria? - Speech problems caused by musculature weakness. Affixes - Prefixes and suffixes Pragmatics - Set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of language. Metalinguistics - The ability to think about, analyze, and reflect on language as an object. (Awareness of language) Aspiration - Puff of air The sound /u/ in unaccented syllable (such as the 'a' in 'final' - Schwa sound Suprasegmentals - The melody of speech, stress, pitch, loudness Discovery learning involves what pathways? - 3 pathways - Visual, auditory, tactile-kinesthetic Socratic questions are what kind of questions - Guided questions Socratic questions (guided questions) are what type of learning? - Auditory discovery Semantics - Meaning of words and sentences, study of meaning, content of language. Diagnostic teaching - Teaching that is informed by a continual assessment of student needs. Outcome measure - An assessment that classifies a student in terms of achievement or improvement of a grade-level performance. Summative data - Data that provides information about knowledge to be applied to long term comprehensive goals. Formative data - Data taken that provides information during learning process. Final stable syllables come from what language? - Latin Affixes come from what language? - Anglo-Saxon Combining forms come from what language - Greek 'CH' pronounced /k/ is what language? (As in 'school') - Greek Consonant cluster 'ph' is from what language? - Greek ine, ice, ile - Latin (endings or final stable syllables) Cedilla 'c' /s/ - Latin Common every day words are from - Anglo-Saxon 'R' controlled vowels are from which language? - Latin