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Praxis II 5362

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Term
Definition
assimilation   when a speech sound changes due to influence of nearby sounds  
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acculturation   describes acquisition process of L2 by minorities (immigrants, migrant workers, kids--Schumann)  
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Language development stages   babbling (3-9m); one word (10-13m); 2 word (18m); multi (2y)  
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Language Development Order   Bottom up: Understanding, Talking, Reading, Writing  
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What tool do teachers help and guide?   Semantic Domain = Semantic Map = Graphic Organizer  
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Skinner   Behavioral Approach (positive rewards); Critical Period 0-7 years  
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Piaget   Metacognitive process; Constructivism approach (active use of mind): learners make sense of info together through problem-solving)  
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Chomsky   Innateness (can communicate when no common language--universal grammar); One can always learn language, 0-14 is best  
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Krashen   5 hypothesis: Natural order; Input: Acquisition (passive) vs. Learning (active); Monitor (affective filter)  
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Transfer   Thinking in L1 but speaking in L2  
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Teach   Slightly above the actual level  
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Reading   At the independent level  
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Affective filter   Negative emotional and motivational that interfere with the reception and processing of comprehensible input  
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Suggestopedia   Making students comfortable and confident to lower the affective filter  
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Cummins   BICS & CALP; Additive & Subtractive bilingualism  
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BICS   Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills  
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CALP   Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency  
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Additive Bilingualism   L1 continues to develop and the culture is valued; L2 and culture is added  
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Subtractive Bilingualism   L2 is added at the expense of L1  
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Interference   Rule from L1 that interferes with L2  
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Fossilization   EL reaches plateau due to developmental problem  
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Diglossia   2 Languages are used under different conditions in the same community  
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Second Language Acquisition   Preproduction; Early Production; Speech Emergency; Beginning Fluency; Intermediate Fluency; Advanced Fluency  
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Pre-Production   500 words; Comprehension is focus; Silent period  
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Early Production   1000 words; Memorizing chunks; Private speech  
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Speech Emergence   3000 words; Lexical chunks; Memorized phrases  
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Beginning Fluency   Short Conversations; overgeneralization; circumlocution; code switching  
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Intermediate Fluency   CALP; Complex sentences; Minimal mistakes  
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Advanced Fluency   Same as native speaker  
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Circumlocution   When you do not know the word so you make one up "Wordy"  
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Pronoun   Word that replaces a noun to avoid repetition  
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Conjunction   Connects clauses  
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Agreement   Subjects and verbs must agree  
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Exposition Discourse   Text book language  
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Descriptive level Discourse   Describing one part  
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Narrative discourse   Storytelling  
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Argumentative Discourse   Persuade the reader of something  
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Formal text   Resume, reports  
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Informal text   Emails, texts  
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Neutral text   steps, not intended for a specific person  
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Sociolinguistic competence   The ability to use language that is appropriate to social context  
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Linguistic register   Determined by a variety of factors like occasion, context, purpose, and audience (stylistic variation)  
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Spelling development   1. Pre-communicative (3-4); 2. Pre-Phonetic (4-5); 3. Phonetic (5-6); 4. Transitional (7-10); 5. Correct/Competent (10-18)  
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Pre-Communicative Stage   Uses a pen and pencil to scribble; no letters  
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Pre-Phonetic Stage   Letter formation is underdeveloped, one letter = one word, beginning letter-sound correspondence, names and forms letters (Semiphonetic)  
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Phonetic Stage   Letter-sound correspondence developed MAJOR PROBLEMS HERE  
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Inventive Spelling   Using phonic knowledge to invent words they need by can't spell  
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Transitional Stage   Concentrates on words needed in writing  
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Correct/Competent Stage   Speller knows the language system and basic rules; recognizes incorrect form  
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Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol   Differentiated Instruction (SIOP)  
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Total Physical Response   Learning by moving (TPR)  
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Bilingual Model   Learning both language at the time  
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Multi-level   Different levels in the classroom  
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Cognitive Academic Language Learning   Learning strategies to aid in learning content and language  
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English Only Model   NOT ALLOWED Submersion; 1 or 2 students sink or swim  
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Comparative adjective   Bigger  
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Superlative adjective   Biggest  
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Linguistic Approach   Improving reading and writing by recognizing what to look for and how to think about it  
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Basal Reader   A reading strategy using short books  
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Bottom up   From words to meaning  
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Audio-linguism   Emphasis on learning grammatical and phonological stucture  
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Direct method   Students are taught a language directly without L1 to explain new words or grammar  
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Communicative language teaching approach   Emphasis on interaction as both the means and ultimate goal of study  
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Community language learning   Students may speak their L1  
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Native Langauge support   Academic support in L1  
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Natural Approach   Being exposed to the language and using it in a natural way  
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Language experience   Activities and stories of the students; emphasis on meaning  
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Transitional bilingual education   Build L2 in order to mainstream as quickly as possible  
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Maintenance bilingual education   Works to build students' majority language while also promoting use of the native or home language at school  
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Developmental Bilingual Education   Aims to preserve and build on L1  
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Immersion   Instruction entirely in L2 and use L1 only for clarification  
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Total immersion   100% L2  
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Partial Immersion   50% L2; 50% L1  
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Two-way immersion   Dual- or bilingual-immersion; speakers of 2 languages and class time is split in half  
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Homographs   Words that are spelled the same but have different meaning (bat-bat)  
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Homophones   Words that sound the same but are spelled differently (ate-eight)  
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Phonology/Phonics   Sounds in language  
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Phoneme   Smallest unit of sound in meaning /t/ /ch/  
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Allophone   Any speech sound that represents a single phoneme (different sounds that k makes)  
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Morphology/Morphemes   Units of meaning (suffix, affix, prefix, bound, unbound, roots)  
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Free Morpheme   Can stand along (go, big)  
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Bound morpheme   Has to be attached to something (s, un)  
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Derivational affixation   The addition of a morpheme that changes its class (from verb to noun)  
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Syntax   Word order  
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Semantics   Meaning of words, and phrases (2 ways to say the same thing)  
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Pragmatic   Behavior (tact or inflections)  
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Stages of acculturation   Initial enthusiasm; Culture shock; Recovery; Integration  
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Surface Culture   Superficial  
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Deep Culture   You have to be a member to know about it  
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Tier 1   80% of students  
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Tier 2   15% of students  
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Tier 3   5% of students  
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Affricatives   Shair-Chair  
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Minimal Pair   /f/ /v/ fan and van  
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Voice and Voiceless   Air v. no air (voiced = h, sh, tt, pp) (unvoiced = mm, bb, zh)  
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Consonant voicing   Sound change where voiceless becomes voiced (sonorization)  
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Stress patterns   longer, louder, change in pitch, said clearly, uses larger facial movements  
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Prosody   Patterns of stress and intonation  
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Schwa   Unstressed central vowel  
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Intonation Pattern   The way a person's voice raises and lowers when they are talking  
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Place of articulation   the point of contact where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract  
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Passive location of articulation   roof of mouth  
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Articulatory gesture   An active articulator  
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Palatalization   Involves the change in the place or manner of articulation of consonants  
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Monophthongs   1 vowel-1 sound  
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Diphthongs   2 vowels-2 sounds  
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Triphthongs   3 vowels-3 sounds  
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Formal assessment   Written  
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Informal assessment   Observations  
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Criterion Assessment   Content-based Benchmark  
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Validity   Is the test assessing what it was supposed to assess?  
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Reliability   Are all tests being graded in the same way?  
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Authentic Assessment   Performance-based test (like a driving test)  
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Lau v. Nichols   Students cannot sink pr swim; schools must provide EL services  
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Plyer v. Doe   Public education must be free to all students; teachers are not immigration representatives  
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Castaneda v. Pickard   ELL programs must be evaluated for effectiveness  
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Brown v. Board   Racial segregation is unconstitutional  
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Negative Transfer   Occurs when speakers and writers transfer items that are not the same in both languages  
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Achievement test   A skill/knowledge test  
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IATEFL   International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language  
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ACTFL   The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages  
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NAFSA   Association of International Educators  
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Linguistic Approach   Method that assumes all children have a strong grasp of oral L1  
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Language Experience   Students orally relate personal experiences to the teacher  
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Passive   "The enemy was defeated by the troops"  
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Active   "The troops defeated the enemy"  
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Epenthesis   Insertion of a sound or letter within a word (b in thimble)  
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Flapping   tt in butter  
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Redundancy Reduction   When two languages come into contact within the same environment, the speaker is forced to solve the duplication of rules and functions in two languages  
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Behaviorism   The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning without appeal to thoughts or feelings  
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Contructivist   Learning occurs as learners are actively involved in a process of meaning and knowledge construction  
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Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964   Prohibits discrimination on basis of race, color, and origin  
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Socio-pragmatic Competence   Ability to recognize the effect of context on strings of linguistic events and to use language appropriately in specific social situations  
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Transitional Bilingual Program   Works to build students' English Proficiency & put mainstream them  
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Silent way   Students work cooperatively and independently, teacher is silent  
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Community Language Learning   L1 used freely & students work together to develop language aspects; Learning through interactions  
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Metalinguistic feedback   elicitation or error correction  
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Notional-Functional   structuring a syllabus around notions or real life situations in which people communicate  
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Direct Method   refrains from using the L1 and only used L2 (Natural method)  
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Whole Language Approach   Uses a variety of methods to promote and augment true reading comprehension  
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Inductive reasoning   Logical process in which multiple premises are combined to obtain a specific conclusion  
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Deductive reasoning   Logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are presumed to be true  
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Nasalization   The production of a sound while the velum is lowered  
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Discourse analysis   A number of approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use  
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Bruner   Cognitive and educational psychologist (scaffolding)  
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Vygotsky   ZPD  
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Modal verbs   Verbs used with other verbs to express ability (can, should, must)  
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Adverb of manner   How (gracefully)  
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Adverb of time   When (yesterday)  
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Adverb of Place   Where (everywhere)  
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Adverb of Degree   Intensity (very)  
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Gerund   -ing verb  
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Indefinite Article   a and an (determiner)  
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Definite Article   the (determiner)  
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