CASLI
CASLI WRITTEN EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2026/2027)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Cloze skills - ANS ✓The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
code of ethics - ANS ✓Principles of conduct within an organization that guide
decision making and behaviour.
code switching - ANS ✓the practice of changing language or dialect to
accommodate to the communication situation (unconscious)
code mixing - ANS ✓using various combinations of words or phrases from more
than one language (conscious)
Communication dynamics - ANS ✓The way people in a communication
interaction react to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction
Communication facilitation philosophy - ANS ✓Set of beliefs including that
Deaf people are handicapped, ASL as a means of communicating only with less
educated individuals
CASE - ANS ✓Conceptually accurate signed English (ASL signs, English order)
Conduit or machine philosophy - ANS ✓Interpreter has no responsibility for
interaction or communication dynamics taking place.
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CIT - ANS ✓Conference of Interpreter Trainers
congenital deafness - ANS ✓deafness from birth
Consecutive interpretation - ANS ✓More accurate than simultaneous.
Cultural and linguistic mediation - ANS ✓Interpreting so that information has
equivalent meaning and impact for individuals with different language and
cultural schemas
Cultural Expansion - ANS ✓Provide contextual information needed to help
understanding
Cultural reduction - ANS ✓Reducing the volume and sometimes the detail of
info without affecting the meaning intended
Culture - ANS ✓Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
DI - ANS ✓Deaf Interpreter
Dynamic Equivalence - ANS ✓-concerned with expressing the MESSAGE of the
original language in the words of the target language(speaker's goals should be
accomplished)
Empowerment of the client - ANS ✓Behaving in a way that supports another's
right to make decisions
environmental factors - ANS ✓Environmental demands
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CASLI WRITTEN EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2026/2027)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Cloze skills - ANS ✓The ability to mentally "fill in the blanks"
code of ethics - ANS ✓Principles of conduct within an organization that guide
decision making and behaviour.
code switching - ANS ✓the practice of changing language or dialect to
accommodate to the communication situation (unconscious)
code mixing - ANS ✓using various combinations of words or phrases from more
than one language (conscious)
Communication dynamics - ANS ✓The way people in a communication
interaction react to or engage with one another and to the overall interaction
Communication facilitation philosophy - ANS ✓Set of beliefs including that
Deaf people are handicapped, ASL as a means of communicating only with less
educated individuals
CASE - ANS ✓Conceptually accurate signed English (ASL signs, English order)
Conduit or machine philosophy - ANS ✓Interpreter has no responsibility for
interaction or communication dynamics taking place.
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CASLI written
, CASLI
CIT - ANS ✓Conference of Interpreter Trainers
congenital deafness - ANS ✓deafness from birth
Consecutive interpretation - ANS ✓More accurate than simultaneous.
Cultural and linguistic mediation - ANS ✓Interpreting so that information has
equivalent meaning and impact for individuals with different language and
cultural schemas
Cultural Expansion - ANS ✓Provide contextual information needed to help
understanding
Cultural reduction - ANS ✓Reducing the volume and sometimes the detail of
info without affecting the meaning intended
Culture - ANS ✓Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
DI - ANS ✓Deaf Interpreter
Dynamic Equivalence - ANS ✓-concerned with expressing the MESSAGE of the
original language in the words of the target language(speaker's goals should be
accomplished)
Empowerment of the client - ANS ✓Behaving in a way that supports another's
right to make decisions
environmental factors - ANS ✓Environmental demands
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