Language Arts (AEPA) questions with complete solutions

context correct answer: The pictures or the parts of a sentence, paragraph, story, or passage that occur just before and after a specified word or passage that help to determine the exact meaning. Cultural Pluralism correct answer: when small groups within a larger society maintain their uniquie cultural identity. Seeing value in all cultures. Multiculturalism correct answer: Is the combining. Of. Many cultures to form a better society assimilationism correct answer: belief that minority cultures should dissolve into a dominant culture Pluralism correct answer: This suggests that a functional society should recognize and accept micro cultures as they are Decodable words correct answer: Words that follow a regular pattern and have a predictable sound, such as the long final vowel sounds in so, he, and be. Graphemes correct answer: Printed letter symbol used to represent a speech sound (phoneme). In English there are 26 graphemes (letters). Phoneme correct answer: in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit Disadvantages to the phonics method correct answer: A major disadvantage of phonics is that visual learners may not read well by this method. A second disadvantage of the method is that rules do not hold true all the time. Techniques for teaching correct answer: Student should have opportunities to practice the phonics rule and generalizations in context; instructors should make an effort to show the transfer of these to everyday materials an other subjects Analytic phonics correct answer: PHONICS USED IN CONTEXT WITH ACTUAL MATERIALS; BEST PHONICS APPROACH Synthetic phonics correct answer: LEARNING PHONICS AS ISOLATED RULES; LEAST EFFECTIVE PHONICS APPROACH Structural analysis correct answer: A technique for breaking a word into its pronunciation units; the breaking down of a word into word parts such as prefixes, suffixes, roots, and combining forms. Ex: figuring out the word "returnable." If we had met "re" before and if we had met "able" before, we should know how to pronounce them. After we have isolated "turn," we may recognize it as a familiar word and know how to pronounce it. Controlled vocabulary correct answer: Some text try to l