EIKEN Grade 4 flashcards
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- Aspect
- The way a verb phrase presents an event or state in relation to time, such as ongoing, completed or connected with the present.
- Collocation
- A conventional combination of words whose natural use is learned in context, rather than created by substituting any dictionary synonym.
- Register
- Language choices suited to the situation, audience, purpose and relationship, such as a formal request or an informal message to a friend.
- Conditional
- A construction linking a condition with a result, whose forms help express real possibilities, imagined situations or unreal past events.
- Word formation
- Creating a suitable grammatical word form, such as a noun or adjective, while preserving the meaning required by the complete sentence.
- Inference
- A conclusion reasonably supported by the given text, distinguished from a directly stated detail or an unrelated assumption based on outside knowledge.
- Tone
- The attitude conveyed by wording, structure and other textual choices, which should be explained with evidence rather than guessed from the topic alone.
- Narrator
- The voice or figure presenting a narrative, which must be distinguished from the author and from every character's view within the story.
- Cohesion
- Explicit language links connecting parts of a text, such as reference, connectors, repetition and related vocabulary, distinct from overall logical development.
- Qualification
- Language limiting or modifying a claim, such as may, some or inthese circumstances, which should not be removed when interpreting meaning.
- Mediation
- Selecting and communicating relevant source meaning for a particular audience and purpose, with adaptation or explanation where needed while preserving essential qualifications.
- Thesis
- The central position or claim developed in an argumentative text, which needs support and must remain relevant to the actual task.
- Counterargument
- A meaningful opposing consideration that an argument addresses with reasons and evidence, rather than a deliberately weak distraction inserted for appearance.
- Task coverage
- The extent to which a response supplies the relevant requested content for its intended reader, rather than merely using fluent language.
- Revision
- Reconsidering a draft's meaning, organization, register and language so the final text fulfils its purpose more accurately and clearly.
- Paraphrase
- Expressing the same relevant meaning through different wording, which helps identify agreement between a message anda question or response.
- Clarification
- A request or explanation that checks intended meaning when an expression has been misunderstood or the available information is insufficient.
- Turn-taking
- The management of contributions in spoken interaction, including responding, allowing others to speak and helping a discussion develop coherently.
- Intelligibility
- The extent to which speech can be understood in context, which does not require every proficient speaker to share one identical accent.
- Final decision
- The agreed outcome after proposals, corrections or alternatives in a conversation, which may differ from the first possibility mentioned.
- Perspective
- The position and experience shaping a representation, which should be identified through evidence without assuming it speaks for an entire culture.
- Dystopia
- An imagined social order characterized by oppressive or harmfulconditions, used in literature to explore social questions rather than predict every actual future.
- Media literacy
- The ability to evaluate a message's creators, purpose, audience, evidence and presentation instead of treating platform familiarity as proof of reliability.
- Cultural context
- Relevant historical, social and linguistic circumstances that help explain a text, without reducing individuals or communities to fixed stereotypes.
- Phoneme
- A contrastive sound unit in a particular language variety, identified through its role in distinguishing meaning rather than by spelling alone.
- Allophone
- A realization of a phoneme in a sound system that need not produce a different lexical meaning in that context.
- Anaphora
- Reference pointing back to an earlier expression in the text, whose actual referent must be identified before applying the label.
- Illocutionary force
- The communicative act an utterance performs in context, such as requesting, promising or warning, distinguished from its grammatical sentence form.