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Language Acquisition Theories Quiz 5 (25 MCQs)

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1. Language is the inherent capability of the native speakers to understand and form grammatical sentences
2. Which theory suggests that children learn through imitating adults?
3. _____ are strategic reading skills
4. This is the natural faculty of the brain which makes language learning natural.
5. Which theory does the Gypsy evidence go against?
6. Choose the BEST strategy that could be used to help a child to focus on the important sentence parts
7. Why is driving a car or learning to walk similar to speaking?
8. "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."
9. 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.
10. Who devised the Behaviourist theory?
11. This theory emphasises the interaction between children and their care-givers.
12. Behaviorists believe that children come into this world with a _____, a clean slate, bearing no preconceived notions about the world or about language.
13. Out of the average child's first 50 words, what will be the most common word class?
14. 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.
15. It is not one of Vygotsky's theories
16. The Threshold Hypothesis has _____ levels of language proficiency.
17. These are some of Krashen's Second Language Acquisition Theory Hypotheses EXCEPT
18. Which theory does the fis phenomenon go against?
19. "Acquiring knowledge and skills and having them readily available from memory so you can make sense of future problems and opportunities."
20. _____ claims that children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way that other biological functions develop.
21. Comprehensible input includes _____
22. _____ compensatory model of second language reading accounts for several factors and complexities.
23. Chomsky says that _____
24. Noam Chomsky stated that language acquisition is _____, universal, and automatic, a uniquely human endowment
25. Core of child's language acquisition
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