This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Language Acquisition > Language Acquisition Theories – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the students are an active subject to process information and posesses a cognitive competence to solve problems. According to that description it is considered the approach: A) Critical. B) Behavioristic. C) Constructivism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Constructivism. 2. It is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. A) L1. B) LAD. C) L2. D) ELL. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) LAD. 3. The ..... is described by between the reader's processing strategies and background knowledge. A) Bottom up skills. B) Top down skills. C) Interactive process. D) CALP. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interactive process. 4. I + 1 A) Stephen Krashen. B) Lev Vygotsky. C) Jean Aitchison. D) J. Cummins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stephen Krashen. 5. BICS is also known as ..... language. A) Survival. B) Conversational. C) Playground. D) All are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are correct. 6. Process in which members of one cultural group adopt characteristics of another group. A) Acculturation Model. B) Mediation. C) Adaptation Model. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acculturation Model. 7. A term proposed in the 1970s to capture a view of learner language as a developing system in its own right, rather than a debased form of the target language; a continuing central concept in L2 learning research. A) Inner speech. B) Interfaces. C) Interlanguage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interlanguage. 8. Provision of temporary and graduated support for learners undertaking a new task, through dialogue with a 'knowledgeable one'. A) Speech event. B) Scaffolding. C) Transition Theory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scaffolding. 9. 'Mental Block' prevented comprehensible input from being used for acquisition because of these factors EXCEPT A) Low motivation. B) High anxiety. C) Social activities. D) Lack of self-confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social activities. 10. In which theory do we learn by imitation? A) Mentalism. B) Behaviourism. C) Cognitivism. D) Interactionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behaviourism. 11. At what age do children typically enter the one word stage? A) 6 months. B) 12 months. C) 18 months. D) 24 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12 months. 12. Language distance can be thought of as an ..... of how many characteristics two languages share. A) Inventory. B) Evaluation. C) Engagement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inventory. 13. "Low motivation, low self-confidence & high anxiety" are elements of which factor? A) Affective Factors. B) Focus on Teaching Method. C) The Age Factor. D) The X Factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affective Factors. 14. These are the Krashen's Second Language Acquisition Theory Hypotheses EXCEPT A) Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis. B) Natural Order Hypothesis. C) Monitor Order Hypothesis. D) Output Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Output Hypothesis. 15. It is concerned with the intent, content, and effect of a speech act. A) Syntax. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatics. 16. How long should you spend on annotating the text and planning your response? A) 2-3 minutes. B) 5-10 minutes. C) 10-15 minutes. D) 15-20 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10-15 minutes. 17. This type of language is not widely used in the learner's immediate social context but can be used for future travel contexts A) Second language. B) Foreign language. C) Library language. D) Auxiliary language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreign language. 18. According to this theorist, the speech structure mastered by the child become the basic structure of his thinking and the structure of the language he habitually uses influences the way he perceives his environment. A) Lev Vygotsky. B) Jean Piaget. C) Benjamin Bloom. D) Noam Chomsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lev Vygotsky. 19. IT's the response to Chomsky's theory. A) LAD. B) LASS. C) LAP. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) LASS. 20. INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION works on A) The importance of output. B) The importance of input. C) Listening and understanding. D) Natural conversations between native and non-native speakers. 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