This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Language Acquisition > Language Acquisition Theories – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A difference between language acquisition and language learning is A) The language is simplified. B) There's a need for a model to imitate. C) There's no pressure to learn. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There's no pressure to learn. 2. Who is not a language acquisition theorist? A) Noam Chomsky. B) John Piaget. C) David Crystal. D) Lev Vygotsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Piaget. 3. Which theorist coined a new set of functions for children? A) Piaget. B) Vygotsky. C) Berko. D) Halliday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Halliday. 4. It is an approach to language development that focuses on the relationship between language form and social meaning. A) Functional. B) Nativist. C) Behavioristic. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Functional. 5. "I want" is an example of what function of language? A) Personal. B) Regulatory. C) Interactional. D) Instrumental. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Instrumental. 6. What ate the two kind of reinforcement? A) Neutral and positive reinforcement. B) Punishments and positive reinforcement. C) Positive and negative reinforcement. D) Good and bad reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive and negative reinforcement. 7. Past the age of three, in this final stage of language acquisition, children now learn to use functional morphemes to change the meaning of the words they use. A) Multiword. B) Two-word. C) Telegraphic. D) Holophrastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multiword. 8. It is the primary method of human communication A) Language. B) Learning. C) Linguistics. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language. 9. Which of the following statements best describe acculturation? A) When you accept one culture while keeping your own. B) When you don't addapt to a new culture. C) When you keep your culture and reject the new one. D) When you adopt one culture and retain your own. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When you adopt one culture and retain your own. 10. What is the first language level children learn? A) Lexis. B) Grammar. C) Phonology. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phonology. 11. Language is a system of conventional or written symbols through which human beings as members of social groups and participants in its culture, communicate. A) Bloomfield. B) Encyclopedia Britannica. C) Patanjali. D) Wardhaugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Encyclopedia Britannica. 12. Halliday's function for language that develops social relationships and ease the process of interaction ..... concerned with the phatic dimension of talk A) Regulatory. B) Instrumental. C) Interactional. D) Imaginative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interactional. 13. Noam Chomsky and his theory about first language acquisition are around two main points. These are: A) Nativists and human organism. B) Language acquisition device and Universal grammar. C) Universal grammar and biolinguistics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language acquisition device and Universal grammar. 14. "Students do well in exams but face difficulty when using the language in everyday conversation"is the drawback of which method? A) The Grammar-Translation Method. B) The Audiolingual Method. C) Communicative Approaches. D) The wrong method. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Grammar-Translation Method. 15. Which theory places significant importance on child directed speech? A) Innatism. B) Interactionism. C) Behaviourism. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interactionism. 16. "A change in human disposition or capability that persists over a period of time and is not simply ascribable to processes of growth." A) Robert Gagne. B) Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. C) Richard E. Mayer. D) Albert Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Gagne. 17. Children are born with a(n) ..... to acquire language A) Experience. B) Innate capacity. C) Imitation. D) Skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Innate capacity. 18. "If I knowed the last bug I eated would be the last bug I eated, I woulda eated it slower" is an example of what kind of virtuous error: A) Semantic undergeneralisation. B) Morphological undergeneralisation. C) Semantic overgeneralisation. D) Morphological overgeneralisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morphological overgeneralisation. 19. What to consider when teaching a language to children? i. first languageii. learning styleiii. hobbyiv. ambition A) I and ii. B) Ii and iii. C) Iii and iv. D) I and iv. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I and ii. 20. The wug test supports A) Chomsky's innate/universal grammar theory. B) Skinner's imitation theory. C) Bruner's interaction theory. D) Piaget's cognitive development theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chomsky's innate/universal grammar theory. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLanguage Acquisition Theories Quiz 1Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 2Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 3Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 5Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 6Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 7Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 8Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 9Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 10Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books