Language Acquisition Quiz

According to the behaviorist theory in second or foreign language acquisition, sensory experience plays an important role in language learning. This sensory experience primarily involves:

• Using imagination to visualize situations where the language is used

• Communicating in writing with native speakers

• Listening to and imitating sounds and words in the language being learned

• Memorizing vocabulary and grammar rules independently

The history of the grammar-translation approach started with languages:

• English and Indonesian

• Japanese and Greek

• Greek and Latin

• Arabic and Latin

How does the direct approach teach grammar?

• By giving grammar rules explicitly

• By translation exercises

• Through examples of use in real communication

• By providing grammar definitions in the mother tongue

The following are part of the processes of child language development, except:

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Cognitive

Things related to affective/interpersonal orientation are:

• Focusing on students' psychological and affective predispositions that enhance or inhibit learning

• Focusing on teacher motivation

• Emphasizing interactions within the student

• Based on concepts adapted from student intelligence

The theory that greatly influences the audiolingual method is:

• Behaviorism

• Humanism

• Cognitivism

• Affectivism

The following are processes involved in first language mastery, namely:

• Competence and performance

• Confirmation and performance

• Competence and cognitive

• Confirmation and affirmation

The following are theoretical orientations towards methods & approaches in second language (L2) learning, except:

• Structural/linguistic

• Functional/communicative

• Cognitive

• Imaginative

Language acquisition has two main objects of discussion, namely:

• Primary language acquisition and secondary language acquisition

• Mother tongue acquisition and second language acquisition

• Child language acquisition and adult language acquisition

• First language acquisition and secondary language acquisition

What is the main focus of the audiolingual method in teaching a second or foreign language?

• Memorizing vocabulary

• Reading literary books

• Repetition and practice of sentence patterns

• Practicing written grammar