LHE3218 Mock Quiz (Topic 1-3)

What is psycholinguistics?

• the study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behaviour in a given context

• the study of language in relation to social factors

• the study of interrelationship of psychological and linguistic

  behaviour

• the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society

Of all the skills listed below, which skill aids most in improving grammar and vocabulary?

• Writing

• Reading

• Speaking

• Listening

Choose the factors affecting second language acquisition.

You can choose more than one

• Age

• Learner characteristics

• Linguistic factors

• Context

All of these are the tenets of the behaviourist perspective, EXCEPT...?

• Children form habits based on imitation

• The environment makes only a basic contribution to students' learning

• Providing positive reinforcement can facilitate in improving students' skills

• The consistency of the reinforcement offered shapes the child's language behaviour

Competence: What a person knows

Performance: What a person can actually produce

• True

• False

According to the principles of systematicity, language learners do all of the below, EXCEPT...?

• induce rules

• generalise across a category

• proceed in stages of development

• are influenced by many variables

These are all affective factors, EXCEPT...

• Self-esteem

• Willingness to communicate

• Systematic forgetting

• Anxiety

All of these describe individualist societies EXCEPT...

• Confrontation in learning situations can be salutary

• Students expect to learn how to learn

• Individuals will speak up in large groups

• Individual students will only speak up in class when called upon

"Children’s early language learning arises from processes of meaning-making in collaborative activity with other members of a given culture"

Which theory/hypothesis is this statement referring to?

• Behaviourism

• Interaction hypothesis

• Sociocultural theory

• Whorfian hypothesis

Among the perspectives on first language acquisition (behaviourist, innatist and interactionist perspectives), choose one of them.

a) Provide 2 elaborations on the chosen perspective

b) In 2-3 sentences, suggest an example of an activity you can conduct in the class based on the chosen perspective