This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Language Acquisition > Language Acquisition Theories – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Halliday's function for when language is used to exchange information A) Imaginative. B) Instrumental. C) Representational. D) Regulatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representational. 2. Language is the inherent capability of the native speakers to understand and form grammatical sentences A) Bloch and Trager. B) Derbyshire. C) Lyons. D) Noam Chomsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noam Chomsky. 3. Which theory suggests that children learn through imitating adults? A) Behaviourism. B) Interactionism. C) Innatism. D) Constructivist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviourism. 4. ..... are strategic reading skills A) Top down skills. B) Bottom up skills. C) Interactive processes. D) BICS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Top down skills. 5. This is the natural faculty of the brain which makes language learning natural. A) Tabularasa. B) Language acquisition device. C) Developmental milestones. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language acquisition device. 6. Which theory does the Gypsy evidence go against? A) Naturvist. B) Behaviourist. C) Cognitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naturvist. 7. Choose the BEST strategy that could be used to help a child to focus on the important sentence parts A) Use long sentences. B) Talk in slow pitch. C) Talk in high pitch. D) Less emphasis on word stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talk in high pitch. 8. Why is driving a car or learning to walk similar to speaking? A) It involves the same process. B) It requires a lot of teaching. C) It is an automatic process throughout time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is an automatic process throughout time. 9. "Language is a human expression that is produced by different speech organs of human beings. Through speech organs, humans produced several expressions which are converted to language." A) Derbishire. B) Wardhaugh. C) Lyons. D) Patanjali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patanjali. 10. Speech is the representation of the experience of the mind. Language is a speech sound produced by human beings to express their ideas, emotions, thoughts, desires and feelings. A) Aristotle. B) Bloomfield. C) Sapir. D) Saussure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 11. Who devised the Behaviourist theory? A) Piaget. B) Bruner. C) Skinner. D) Chomsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skinner. 12. LAD stands for A) Language Acquisition Support System. B) Language Attention Device. C) Language Acquisition Device. D) Language and Discourse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language Acquisition Device. 13. This theory emphasises the interaction between children and their care-givers. A) Cognitive. B) Behaviourist. C) Interaction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interaction. 14. Behaviorists believe that children come into this world with a ....., a clean slate, bearing no preconceived notions about the world or about language. A) Blank sheet. B) Tabula. C) Tabula rasa. D) Blank slate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tabula rasa. 15. Out of the average child's first 50 words, what will be the most common word class? A) Adjectives. B) Nouns. C) Verbs. D) Determiners. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nouns. 16. He believes that language acquisition like any other behavior can be observed, rather than trying to explain the mental systems underlying these types of behaviors. A) Noam Chomsky. B) Leonard Bloomfield. C) B.F. Skinner. D) Lev Vygotsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B.F. Skinner. 17. It is not one of Vygotsky's theories A) Sociocultural theory. B) Private speech. C) Social constructivism. D) Monitor hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monitor hypothesis. 18. The Threshold Hypothesis has ..... levels of language proficiency. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 19. These are some of Krashen's Second Language Acquisition Theory Hypotheses EXCEPT A) Natural Order Hypothesis. B) Monitor Hypothesis. C) Output Hypothesis. D) Affective-Filter Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Output Hypothesis. 20. Which theory does the fis phenomenon go against? A) Naturvist. B) Behaviourist. C) Cognitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behaviourist. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLanguage Acquisition Theories Quiz 1Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 2Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 3Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 4Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 5Language 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