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DELTA.
Institution
DELTA.
Adjacency pair - correct answer A term for the utterances made by two different speakers. The first of which requires an immediate and, to a greater or lesser extent, standard response from another.
Adverb Particle - correct answer ...
Adjacency pair - correct answer A term for the utterances made by two different
speakers. The first of which requires an immediate and, to a greater or lesser extent, standard response
from another.
Adverb Particle - correct answer A word used especially after a verb to show
position, direction of movement, etc. In 'come back', 'break down' and 'fall off', 'back', 'down' and 'off'
are all adverbial particles.
Anaphoric - correct answer "Back" referencing in discourse e.g. "where's my towel, I
hung it on the line" where the pronoun "it" refers back to "my towel"
Assimilation - correct answer When a sound is modified by a neighbouring sound
e.g. when the final /n/ of green is followed by a /p/
Backchannelling - correct answer Used by a listener to give feedback and reassure
the speaker that they are listening and following the story.
Bottom Up Processing - correct answer The use of prior knowledge, expectations
and knowledge of lexis and grammatical structures to understand spoken or written text
Cataphoric - correct answer "Forward" referencing in discourse e.g. "That's what I
like, a nice, dry day"" where the pronoun "that" refers forward to "a nice dry day"
Cohesion - correct answer The use of grammatical and lexical means to achieve
connected text, either spoken or written. These include reference words e.g. this, the, it; linkers e.g.
however, and topic related lexis
Collocation - correct answer The way in which words are used together regularly or
"words that frequently occur together". Can be adjective + noun (e.g. stale bread), noun + noun (e.g.
death threat) etc
, Compound words - correct answer Items that consist of more than one root but
have a single concept or identity e.g. wastepaper bin
Critical Age Hypothesis - correct answer The theory that there is a period (e.g. age 2
until puberty) during which language can be acquired rapidly and perfectly; after this it is no longer
possible to achieve the same level
Derived Words - correct answer Words with bound morphemes attached at the
beginning or end e.g. deformed (de-form-ed)
Direct Test - correct answer A test employing tasks which replicate real-life
activities, e.g. role-playing a job interview, writing a letter of complaint
Ellipsis - correct answer The omission of certain words or phrases where they are
unnecessary (e.g. because they have already been mentioned or referred to)
Elision - correct answer The omission of a sound because another similar sound
follows e.g. baked beans is pronounced /beɪkbɪnz/
Fluency - correct answer The ability to produce and maintain speech in real time,
without undue pauses and including long runs
Form - correct answer The way a word is written or pronounced
Functions - correct answer The jobs that language does (e.g. requesting, offering
etc). See The Communicative Approach.
Grammaring /grammaticisation - correct answer The process by which a sequence
of words is fine-tuned in order to reduce ambiguity and create a more complex message than lexis alone
can express e.g. She work project 3 month She'll be working on the project for 3 months
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