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Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 1 (30 MCQs)

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1. It is the ability to recognize and produce distinctive grammatical structures of a language in both oral and written communication.
2. What does the first stage of spoken language acquisition include?
3. Affective Filter Hypothesis deals with affective variables that influence second language acquisition. Which of the following is not part of the variable?
4. Who devised the Innatism theory?
5. This approach to learning studied changes in behavior that are caused by a person's direct experience of their environment, using the principles of classical and operant conditioning to explain them.
6. Proposed the Cognitive theory of Language development.
7. Halliday's function for when language is used to explore the world and learn and discover
8. In linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system
9. "Learning is the process by which the individuals acquire various habits, knowledge, and attitudes that are necessary to meet the demands of life, in general."
10. This type of language is one which learners need to know for some official functions in their immediate political setting.
11. What is Child Directed Speech?
12. Which of these is not one of Halliday's functions of language?
13. How does Nelson's first 50 words support this?
14. When do children enter the two word stage?
15. The smallest individual unit of sound in a language which conveys a meaning, for example in fell and well the f and w sounds.
16. How many morphemes are in the verb "walked"
17. Halliday's function for language used to fulfill a need.
18. He is the proponent of the Cognitive Theory.
19. It based on the aspect that a child develops language as he develops intellect. The It focuses on the innate aspects of the brain that allows children to formulate verbal processes.
20. Comprehensible Input includes
21. 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:
22. It is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s which enables an infant to acquire and produce language.
23. The ..... is described by between the reader's processing strategies and background knowledge.
24. BICS is also known as ..... language.
25. Process in which members of one cultural group adopt characteristics of another group.
26. 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.
27. Provision of temporary and graduated support for learners undertaking a new task, through dialogue with a 'knowledgeable one'.
28. 'Mental Block' prevented comprehensible input from being used for acquisition because of these factors EXCEPT
29. In which theory do we learn by imitation?
30. At what age do children typically enter the one word stage?
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