TLA 1

According to behaviorist theories of language acquisition, language development is primarily influenced by:

• Innate cognitive mechanisms

• Universal grammar

• Environmental factors and reinforcement

• Social interaction and cultural context

Which theory suggests that children acquire language through imitation and reinforcement?

• Nativist theory

• Interactionist theory

• Behaviorist theory

• Connectionist theory

The idea that language acquisition results from an innate, biologically based language acquisition device (LAD) is proposed by:

• B.F. Skinner

    

• Lev Vygotsky

• Jean Piaget

• Noam Chomsky

The interactionist perspective on language acquisition emphasizes the role of:

 

• Innate language abilities

• Social interactions and environmental factors

• Language input and reinforcement

• Cognitive processes and schemas

The critical period hypothesis suggests that there is a specific age range during which language acquisition is:

• Most efficient and successful

    

• Impossible to achieve

• Primarily influenced by cognitive development

• Unaffected by environmental factors

According to the nativist theory of language acquisition, children possess an innate ability to:

  

  

  

• a) Imitate and reinforce language

• b) Formulate hypotheses and test them

•    c) Learn language through social interactions

• d) Acquire language structures and rules

The sociocultural theory of language acquisition is associated with:

  

• B.F. Skinner

    

• Albert Bandura

• Lev Vygotsky

• Noam Chomsky

The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is a concept associated with which theory of language acquisition?

  

• Behaviorist theory

    

• Connectionist theory

    

• Sociocultural theory

    

• Nativist theory

Connectionist theories of language acquisition emphasize:

  

• Innate language abilities

• The role of reinforcement and imitation

• The importance of cognitive processes and schema formation

• Neural networks and statistical learning

Which is not a feature of the behaviorist theory?

• poverty of the stimulus

• reinforcement

• conditioning

• error correction