CALT EXAM Questions with complete solution 2025/2026
1. CALT Exam measures an individual's knowledge of and skills in Multisensory
Structured
Language Education (MSLE)
2. Receptive the ability to understand and comprehend spoken or written language,
Lan- guage essential- ly meaning the "input" of language, where someone takes in
information through listening or reading and interprets its meaning; it
involves understanding words concepts, and instructions, as opposed
to producing language yourself.
3. Expressive
Lan- guage the ability to communicate one's thoughts, feelings, and needs
through spoken words, written text, gestures, or other symbol,
essentially meaning it's the "out- put" of language, where you use
language to espresso yourself to others
4. Accent stress or emphasis placed on one syllable in a word, or one word in a
sentence
5. Articulation where the sound is produced, the way in which air stream flows
through the nose or mouth
6. Coarticulation the arcticulation of two or more speech sounds together, so that one
influences
the other
7. Phonograms a symbol representing a vocal sound
8. 4 components phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics
of language
9. Phonology sound structure of a language and how speech sounds operate
within that
language. An unconscious set of rules that govern speech that incudes
supraseg- mental and segmental aspects which is a very large
umbrella term
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,10. Semantics the study of word meaning and vocabulary; it includes the meanings of
words,
phrases, sentences, or text
11. Syntax grammar, usage, order of words, rules that govern how the words in
our language are linked together
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understanding the social uses of language and basic social
12.Pragmatics
rules of communica- tion
13.Affix prefixes and/ or suflxes that are added to base words
14. Alphabet the ability to identify the name of letters of the alphabet, the name is
Knowl- edge the anchor
15. Alphabetic
lan- guage a language such as English, in which the letters are used
systematically to repre- sent speech sounds or phonemes
16. Alphabetic
princi- ple the understanding that letters (graphemes) are connected to sounds
(phonemes)
17. Analytic presents the whole and teaches how this can broken down into its
component
parts
18. Anaphora using a pronoun or definite article to refer to something already
mentioned
19. Appositive a noun or noun phrase that is placed after a noun to explain it more
fully
20. Automaticity the ability to respond or react without attention or conscious ettort
21. Comprehension making sense of what we read, this depends on good word
recognition, fluency, vocabulary, worldly knowledge, and language
ability
22. Cumulative describes instruction that is presented in a sequence that begins with
the simplest skills and concepts and progresses systematically to the
more diflcult
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1. CALT Exam measures an individual's knowledge of and skills in Multisensory
Structured
Language Education (MSLE)
2. Receptive the ability to understand and comprehend spoken or written language,
Lan- guage essential- ly meaning the "input" of language, where someone takes in
information through listening or reading and interprets its meaning; it
involves understanding words concepts, and instructions, as opposed
to producing language yourself.
3. Expressive
Lan- guage the ability to communicate one's thoughts, feelings, and needs
through spoken words, written text, gestures, or other symbol,
essentially meaning it's the "out- put" of language, where you use
language to espresso yourself to others
4. Accent stress or emphasis placed on one syllable in a word, or one word in a
sentence
5. Articulation where the sound is produced, the way in which air stream flows
through the nose or mouth
6. Coarticulation the arcticulation of two or more speech sounds together, so that one
influences
the other
7. Phonograms a symbol representing a vocal sound
8. 4 components phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics
of language
9. Phonology sound structure of a language and how speech sounds operate
within that
language. An unconscious set of rules that govern speech that incudes
supraseg- mental and segmental aspects which is a very large
umbrella term
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17
,10. Semantics the study of word meaning and vocabulary; it includes the meanings of
words,
phrases, sentences, or text
11. Syntax grammar, usage, order of words, rules that govern how the words in
our language are linked together
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17
, CALT EXAM
Study online at
https://quizlet.com/_hmakfh
understanding the social uses of language and basic social
12.Pragmatics
rules of communica- tion
13.Affix prefixes and/ or suflxes that are added to base words
14. Alphabet the ability to identify the name of letters of the alphabet, the name is
Knowl- edge the anchor
15. Alphabetic
lan- guage a language such as English, in which the letters are used
systematically to repre- sent speech sounds or phonemes
16. Alphabetic
princi- ple the understanding that letters (graphemes) are connected to sounds
(phonemes)
17. Analytic presents the whole and teaches how this can broken down into its
component
parts
18. Anaphora using a pronoun or definite article to refer to something already
mentioned
19. Appositive a noun or noun phrase that is placed after a noun to explain it more
fully
20. Automaticity the ability to respond or react without attention or conscious ettort
21. Comprehension making sense of what we read, this depends on good word
recognition, fluency, vocabulary, worldly knowledge, and language
ability
22. Cumulative describes instruction that is presented in a sequence that begins with
the simplest skills and concepts and progresses systematically to the
more diflcult
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