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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






2. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






3. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






4. 'with - it - ness'






5. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






6. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






7. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






8. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua






9. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






10. Role playing






11. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






12. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






13. Region/area - length - set






14. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






15. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






16. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






17. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






18. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






19. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






20. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






21. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






22. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






23. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






24. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






25. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






26. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






27. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






28. Construct understanding from the words






29. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






30. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).

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31. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






32. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






33. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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34. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






35. The history or study of words.






36. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






37. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






38. Models or visual examples of the information






39. Language Acquisition hypothesis






40. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






41. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






42. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






43. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






44. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






45. Direct instruction






46. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






47. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






48. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






49. Discovery learning and constructivism






50. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word