Letrs Session 2/Letrs Unit 2 Sessions
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 And 8 Exams /Questions
and Answers 2023/2024
LETRS Session 2
b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized. - -Which is a
characteristic of discourse in spoken language?
a. It generally uses complete, well-formed sentences.
b. It does not use paragraphs and tends to be disorganized.
c. It may use unusual or topic-specific vocabulary.
d. Its sounds are coarticulated in words.
-a. As children get older, verbal comprehension becomes more important
than oral reading fluency. - -Which statement best describes the relative
importance of oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension as factors in
reading comprehension?
a. As children get older, verbal comprehension becomes more important
than oral reading fluency.
b. Oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are equally important
throughout childhood and adolescence.
c. As children get older, verbal comprehension matters less, and oral reading
fluency becomes more important.
d. Although oral reading fluency and verbal comprehension are both
important, a child with problems in one domain can usually use the other
domain to compensate.
-b. Social context and nonverbal gestures help the listener understand
spoken language, so there is less need for it to be highly structured. - -How
does the language system of <i>pragmatics</i> help us to understand why
written language is more structured than spoken language?
a. Written language is highly structured because we expect certain types of
writing, such as stories, to follow established organizational conventions.
b. Social context and nonverbal gestures help the listener understand
spoken language, so there is less need for it to be highly structured.
c. We must process written language in a highly structured way—reading
letters that represent specific sounds and decoding them by reading from
left to right.
d. Spoken language is less structured because we tend to use sentences that
are incomplete, run-ons, or otherwise ungrammatical.
, -d. We know the words unique, uniform, united, and universe all contain the
root uni, meaning "one." - -Which of these is an example of morphology?
a. We use polite phrases like "excuse me" and "thank you" when addressing
someone of higher social status.
b. We recognize that the nonsense word "hufflelumps" could be a real word
in English, but "ngapkez" could not.
c. We tend to structure paragraphs with a main idea supported by details.
d. We know the words unique, uniform, united, and universe all contain the
root uni, meaning "one."
-a. All meaning resides in the written words alone; there is no additional
physical context or gestures, facial expressions, etc., to support meaning.
b. Reading and writing require learning new forms of language, such as
changes to sentence structure, discourse, and presentation of vocabulary
and semantics. - -What adds to the challenge of becoming literate? Select all
that apply.
a. All meaning resides in the written words alone; there is no additional
physical context or gestures, facial expressions, etc., to support meaning.
b. Reading and writing require learning new forms of language, such as
changes to sentence structure, discourse, and presentation of vocabulary
and semantics.
c. Written sentences are often less grammatical than spoken ones.
d. Nothing; children already have been exposed to literature from an early
age.
-academic language - -What is written or spoken language that is more
stylistically formal than spoken conversational language - language that is
most often used in academic discourse and text?
-a separate neural system for each language - -What does the brain
establish if a student is learning two languages simultaneously, as in
bilingual households?
-True - -T/F Listening comprehension may exceed reading comprehension,
but the reverse is not true. One cannot understand by reading what one
cannot understand by listening.
-a. brillig
d. martabastical - -Which of the following nonsense words COULD be an
English word based on phonology? Select all that apply.
a. brillig
b. ngangmt
c. pkumlekp
d. martabastical
e. tslenuts