A morpheme that is placed after the stem of a word.
What is a suffix?
100
Looking for little words inside the big words.
What is structural analysis?
100
The use of background knowledge and cues from three language systems to construct meaning from a text.
What is the sociopsycholinguistic view?
100
The process of analyzing how writers use language.
What is linguistic text analysis?
200
This suffix signifies a progressive or continuous aspect.
What is -ing?
200
Choosing a particular set of words and having students define those words.
What is preteaching vocabulary?
200
The average number of words a person has acquired.
What is vocabulary size?
200
Words such as hypothesis, therefore, context, and longitudinal.
What is general academic vocabulary?
300
This morpheme alters the form of words in which it is affixed.
What is a prefix?
300
Almost 60% of English words have their roots in these two languages.
What is Latin and Greek?
300
Providing contextual exposure to vocabulary prior to starting a lesson.
What is frontloading?
300
This set of words is commonly derived from Latin or Greek roots and derivational morphology.
What is academic English?
400
The smallest linguistic element that has semantic meaning.
What is a morpheme?
400
Using this morpheme to develop word recognition can be more challenging because it is usually more abstract in meaning.
What is a suffix?
400
This teaching strategy involves maintaining rich dialogues, frontloading, and utilizing other prereading activities to help improve understanding before engaging students in a text.
What is building background knowledge?
400
Words like ethnocentrism, quadrants, morphemes, and watershed.
What is content-specific vocabulary?
500
Words that have common etymological origins.
What are cognates?
500
A means of changing a stem to adjust its meaning to fit its syntactic and communicational context.
What is the morphological process?
500
This activity is seen as the best way to help students acquire vocabulary.
What is reading?
500
Some aspects of language appear in the speech of language learners before other features.