Assessments
5-Point Conversational Speech Intelligibility Rating Scale - What is it? How could you use the results?
1 - 5 Rating Scale that can be subjective. Results can be used to identify speech sounds that need to be focused on for lessons.
Look at the Language Sample provided. What is the Mean Length of Utterance?
Mean Length of Utterance - 36 morphemes divided by 4 utterances = 9. A higher MLU can indicate a higher level of language. Can be used as a benchmark.
Name five curricula we looked at this semester.
Apple Tree, Bilingual Grammar Curriculum, Cracking the Grammar Code, Grammar Graphics, Fitzgerald Key, Reading Mastery
Explain what the five aspects of Language?
How can you publish a child's writing?
Share with peers, put on bulletin board, read to younger children, bind and make a book, present in ASL
MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory Words and Sentence - What is it? How could you use the results?
Look at the Language Sample provided. What is the Type-Token Ratio? What does it mean?
Type-Token Ratio - 6 Types (different words) divided by 24 Tokens (words) = .25 times 100 = 25%. A higher the TTR indicates a large amount of lexical (word) variation
How could you combine using Grammar Graphics with the Apple Tree Curriculum?
The Grammar Graphics symbols could be used to practice the Apple Tree sentence patterns.
What are the three approaches to language development have we studied?
Natural, Structured, and Combined Approaches
What are the four English Sentence Types?
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Negative
ASL Development Checklist - What is it? How could you use the results?
Short two-page assessment broken into four stages that range from simple handshapes to the ability to use abstracts and storytelling strategies.
Look at the Language Sample provided. What is the Mean Sentence Length?
Mean Sentence Length - 24 words divided by 4 sentences = 6 words per sentence. A higher MSL can indicate a higher language level
Surprise! Answer all three questions: What is the number of this course? What is the exact name of the course? What is the room number for my office?
SED 359. Language Assessment and Instruction: DHH. CAR 205A
For the 6 + 1 Trait Rubric, explain the "Voice" category.
How the writer's personality and expressions come through the writing. Ability to speak directly to the reader.
Compare the theories of Vygotsky and Chomsky.
Vygotsky - Child learns language as a result of interactions with other people. Need to challenge child (Zone of Proximal Development). Chomsky - Child has innate ability to learn language. Language is learned by learning rules of grammar.
Pragmatics of ASL: ASL Expansion Features - What is it? How could you use the results?
Teacher finds examples from the child's language that show competency in the five major features of ASL Pragmatics. The teacher can use the results to focus on ASL features that need additional instruction.
Give a behavioral objective for the child focused on a syntactical need.
Various Answers
Who is Mildred Groht?
Wrote a book in 1958 about how to use the Natural Language Approach with deaf children.
Explain the Diversity and Differentiation sections of a lesson plan.
Diversity is all about the students....differentiation is all about what you will do based on the student's needs.
What does "CASLLS" stand for?
Cottage Acquisition Scales for Listening Language & Speech
Bloom & Lahey Model: Normal Development Sequence of Expressive Language - What is it? How could you use the results?
List of language skills in normal development sequence up to age five. Eight phases ranging from single words to complex sentences. Can be used to identify what where the child is developmentally so lessons can be developed just above the child's current level.
Which takes more mathematical steps...finding the MLS, MLU or TTR?
TTR
E-E-R-T E-L-P-P-A
What is one argument against Piaget's Theory of Language Acquisition?
Piaget believed that object permanence had to precede language development but deaf children develop sign language before object permanence.
Name the 6 +1 Traits (all seven traits).
Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Presentation