Language Acquisition

Children learn a language by imitating adults.

• Behaviorists view

• Cognitivist view

• Constructivist view

Children can imitate sentence well due to the unaware vocabulary and structure, so language acquisition cannot be alleged as a pure imitating.

• True

• False

He came to the conclusion that children’s minds are not blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.

• Jerome Bruner

• Noam Chomsky

• Stephen Krashen

• Jeremy Harmer

An example of a natural language acquisition is when kids are with an explicit inherent ability able to discover the important rules of a language.

• True

• False

Some scholars, innatists and interactionists, think language needs to be unaltered to be acquired.

• True

• False

Children need to hear sentences that they can understand without knowing a lot about the language they’re trying to learn. This view can be refered to that

• the language needs to be useful for a kid.

• the language has to be meaningful for the child.

• the language must be adaptable for toddlers.

We acquire a second language the same way we acquire our mother tongue.

• True

• False

Some scholars have given fundamental importance to learner’s innate capacity for language acquisition, while others insinuated the role of the environment. What does innate mean?

• incidental

• intuitive

• learned

• acquired

Language acquirers are not usually aware of the fact that they are acquiring language but are only aware of the fact that they are using the language for communication. This can be best described as…

• Knowing about

• Explicit learning

• Picking-up a language

• All of the above

The natural environment, in which the acquisition appears, can be favorably simulated by using real life activities taught in the target language.

• True

• False