When and Where found: I found this word while reading the LTED 609 article by Meier (2003). The sentence I found it in was: “Yet these kinds of “known answer” questions are ubiquitous in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, particularly during book reading sessions” (Meier, 2003, p. 245).
What it means: The sentence context does not offer too much meaning, especially because ubiquitous is being used as the main descriptor in the sentence. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online, ubiquitous means “exhisting or being everywhere at the same time.” In reference to the article, “known answer” questions are obvious or “right there” question types. Some students whose cultures do not value the obvious find that responding to this question type is not important, as it is emphasized in young elementary classrooms.
Level of Familiarity: My level of familiarity is pretty low with this word. I could only glean little meaning from the context in which it was being used, but I had a relative idea based on the rest of the information in the paragraph.
To know it well: This word is not particularly important in everyday language. It would be helpful to know the word well enough to understand it in a scholarly article like I found it in.
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