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Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 2 (30 MCQs)

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1. Language distance can be thought of as an ..... of how many characteristics two languages share.
2. "Low motivation, low self-confidence & high anxiety" are elements of which factor?
3. These are the Krashen's Second Language Acquisition Theory Hypotheses EXCEPT
4. It is concerned with the intent, content, and effect of a speech act.
5. How long should you spend on annotating the text and planning your response?
6. This type of language is not widely used in the learner's immediate social context but can be used for future travel contexts
7. 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.
8. IT's the response to Chomsky's theory.
9. INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION works on
10. The following are typical themes of Structuralism and Behaviorism except,
11. Zone of proximal development
12. "The gradual development of ability in a language by using it naturally in communicative situations with others who know the language"is the definition of .....
13. A theory of language that assumes all natural languages share a set of underlying principles and constraints, and derive from an innate language faculty.
14. Halliday's function for when language is used to explore the imagination
15. Nurture is the same as
16. PCD is also known as
17. It is concerned with the arrangement and meanings of words to form comprehensible phrases or sentences.
18. What is substitution?
19. This stage takes place from birth to around six months of age. During this time, the child does not speak, but is beginning to understand short words and phrases that are central to their needs and interests.
20. Which theorist coined a new set of pragmatic functions for children's speech?
21. It gave birth to stimulus-response (S-R) theory which strives to explain L2 learning as the acquisition of a set of structures through the process of habit formation
22. What is the running discourse style of speech used by children where no listener is directly addressed and the talk is focused on the child's activities called?
23. Stephen Krashen (1982) developed a series of hypotheses. The most relevant are:
24. Who coined this term?
25. A hypothesis claiming that the innate language faculty guiding L1 acquisition is no longer available after a certain age, making L2 learning fundamentally different.
26. The Interdependence Hypothesis made the case that L1 literacy was closely correlated with L2 .....
27. Who suggests children learn by imitating adults?
28. Juan Carlos an English teacher designed his lesson plan according, in the initial part, under two processes:assimilation and accomodation then he introduced the cognitive conflict. He applied the theory of Cognitive development by:
29. NCLB wanted ELLs to make adequate progress learning the language, learning content through the language and learning ..... the language
30. A difference between language acquisition and language learning is
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