This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Language Acquisition > Language Acquisition Theories – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is not one of Krashen's theories A) Monitor hypothesis. B) Natural order hypothesis. C) Sociocultural theory. D) Affective filter hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sociocultural theory. 2. Interference occurs when A) Someone stops an ELL from speaking. B) Structural features of L1 impeded acquiring or using a similar feature in the target language. C) The target language is too different from the L1. D) Peers influence stops ELLs from learning the new language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structural features of L1 impeded acquiring or using a similar feature in the target language. 3. Which theory places significant importance on parentese? A) Innatism. B) Interactionism. C) Behaviourism. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interactionism. 4. Grammatical stage from 12-18 months; otherwise known as the 1-word stage A) Holophrastic Stage. B) 2-word stage. C) Telegraphic Stage. D) Protoword stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Holophrastic Stage. 5. What do Halliday's functions help us to understand about child language? A) Lexis. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 6. He emphasized that both positive and negative reinforcement can form behavior, and this subsequently impacts their language acquisition capability, as such, a lack of any reinforcement can also shape behavior. A) BF Skinner. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Charles Fries. D) Leonard Bloomfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BF Skinner. 7. Preoperational, concrete, sensorimotor, formal operational A) David Crystal's stages. B) Stages of grammatical growth. C) Scaffolding. D) Stages of cognitive development. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stages of cognitive development. 8. A set of rules that generates an endless variety of sentences that are considered grammatically correct and no sentences that aren't. A) Generative Linguistics. B) Universal Grammar. C) Language Acquisition. D) Structural Linguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generative Linguistics. 9. The following names are advocates of Structuralism and Behaviorism except for: A) Leonard Bloomfield. B) Charles Hockett. C) Edward Sapir. D) Lev Vygotsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lev Vygotsky. 10. What factors influence a student's second language acquisition? A) Native language proficiency. B) Cultural background. C) Prior Schooling. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. It is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. A) Language acquisition. B) Language competence. C) Language proficiency. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language acquisition. 12. The theory that states that language does not require extensive use of grammatical rules and tedious drilling belongs to A) Chomsky. B) Krashen. C) Piaget. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Krashen. 13. S approach to SLA which analyzed learners' L2 errors in order to understand interlanguage development, independent of assumption about L1 influence. A) Error Analysis. B) Contrastive Analysis. C) Conversational Analysis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Error Analysis. 14. Also known as holophrastic stage A) One-word stage. B) Two-word stage. C) Telegraphic stage. D) Later Multiword stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One-word stage. 15. All are functions of language except: A) Representational. B) Heuristic. C) Imaginative. D) Functional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Functional. 16. What does the first stage of language acquisition include? A) Grammatically accurate sentences. B) Babbling, cooing, biological noises. C) One-word phrase. D) Two-word phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Babbling, cooing, biological noises. 17. Second Language Acquisition is studied from which of the following perspectives: A) Linguistic and emotional. B) Linguistic and speech development. C) Linguistic, psychological and social. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linguistic, psychological and social. 18. Halliday's function for language that expresses the personal opinions, feelings and identity of the speaker ..... sometimes referred to as the "here I am!" function A) Heuristic. B) Personal. C) Representational. D) Interactional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal. 19. Who focused on social learning and zone proximal development? A) Piaget. B) Vygotsky. C) Chomsky. D) Bruner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vygotsky. 20. How many stages of cognitive development does Piaget believe children progress through. A) 1. B) 2. 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