RICA Subtest 2 Terms

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What is vocabulary?

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a set of words or phrases

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What is your listening vocabulary?

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words you understand when listening to other people speak

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What is your speaking vocabulary?

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words you use when you talk

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What is your sight vocabulary?

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words you can recognize and correctly pronounce

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What is your meaning vocabulary?

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words you understand when reading silently

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What is academic language?

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language used in textbooks and tests-it is the language of the classroom

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What is technical academic language?

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words related to a specific discipline

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What is background knowledge?

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what you know about a topic

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What are 5 of the different vocabularies each person has?

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Listening, Speaking, Writing, Sight, Meaning

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What is the Matthew Effect?

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over a period of time the gap between high-achieving and low-achieving readers widens