Midterm 1, Language acquisition

This term is used to define any language that is the aim or goal of learning.

• Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

• Second Language Learning (L2)

• Target Language (TL)

The scope of Second Language Acquisition includes informal L2 learning and formal L2 learning

• True

• False

Formal learning happens when a foreign child goes to an English speaking country and "picks up" the language by playing and attending school with native speakers.

• True

• False

The underlying knowledge of a language is called:

• linguistic performance

• linguistic competence

• linguistic development

This type of language is not widely used in the learner's immediate social context but can be used for future travel contexts

• second language

• foreign language

• library language

• auxiliary language

Acquisition of more than one language during early childhood is called

• simultaneous multilingualism

• sequential multilingualism

This type of language is one which learners need to know for some official functions in their immediate political setting.

• second language

• foreign language

• library language

• auxiliary language

Psycholinguists emphasize the mental or cognitive processes involved in acquisition.

• True

• False

This occurs when a high school Guatemalan student takes a class in English as part of the pensum.

• formal L2 learning

• informal L2 learning

Second Language Acquisition is studied from which of the following perspectives:

• linguistic and emotional

• linguistic and speech development

• linguistic, psychological and social