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| the ability to learn or think |
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| This is what one knows automatically and ones own awareness of language understanding and analysis of language. |
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| This is the science of language and all its components including morhology, syntax, phonology and the history of language |
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| This is the study of language in different social contexts, and it is how language is applied using social interactions and context |
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| This is the study of the meaning of words and how we make sense of words and sentences to derive meaning and understanding. |
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| This is the study of how language is used in different social contexts |
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| Communication is the act of transferring information through verbal messages,or the written word, or more subtle, non-verbal signals, this can include body language and gestures. |
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| This is ones knowledge of words, vocabulary and amount of words they know. |
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| This is a set of rules about grammar and how it is actually used. There is no right or wrong way of language. |
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| A set of rules on how people think language should be used. Example: To a person saying gonna come this would be incorrect for prescriptive grammar whereby for descriptive grammar it would be accepted. |
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| This is English with all its rules, grammar and morphology syntax that is most commonly and widely accepted by a norm of people. |
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| This is a term that refers to a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. For exmple: there are many dialects in Japenese and sometimes the same word is hard to distinguish from other words from another group. |
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| A form of American English spoken by African Americans. It is sometimes referred to African American Vernacular English or Ebonics. |
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Register refers to the *type* of language you use for a given situation and can cut across language/dialect/accent. For example, among friends one could say: Someone got his head blown off in a car crash yesterday. Among someone else in journalism let's say a reporter, they might say: A person died in a one on one road rage and was shot.
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A phoneme is the smallest unit that you can contrast in a language. For example/b/, /p/, /r/ you can compare in the words rat, bat, and pat. You can distinguish one word from another using the beginning phonemes. |
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A grapheme is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme) in a word. Another way to explain it is to say that a grapheme is a letter or letters that spell a sound in a word. For example the sound /ee/ is represented by the letters ea in the word eat. |
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The smallest unit that can not be further divided. The smallest component of a word that can not be further divided that has semantic meaning.
Example: out side, can be broken down into out and side. |
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| Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. Phonics are taught at an early age to help young readers learn the connection between sounds and the corresponding letters. |
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Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized into systems of sounds used in natural languages. |
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| This is the study of word structures and morphemes. Morphology is concerned with internal structures of words whereby syntax is primarily concerned with the way words are put together in sentences. |
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This is the way words are put together in sentences. using appropriate sentence structures. |
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Sound Symbol Association is the knowledge that the various sounds in the English language have
correspondence to the letters and combinations of
letters which represent those sounds. Sound-symbol
association must be taught (and mastered) in two directions; auditory to visual and visual to auditory.
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