Second Language Acquisition Review

All languages have a written form.

• True

• False

Language changes over time. In this way, language is...

• Systemic

• Symbolic

• Variable

• Social

Match the following social aspects of language

• Change language for age, gender, class..

• SETTING

• The format of a prayer, joke, apology...

• KEY

• Change language due to physical location

• ENDS

• Use of tone and gesture in communication

• ACT SEQUENCE

• Open conversation with goal in mind

• PARTICIPANTS

Language is systematic. The three systems of language are grammar, pronunciation and...

Match the following views of language

• concentrates on the systems of language

• Communicative view of language

• language is social and relational

• Structural view of language

• language is used to get things done

• Interactional view of language

• language involves form, meaning, and use

• Functional view of language

Match the following views of language learning

• language is interaction & for potential

• Humanistic Theory

• overlearn language as a set of habits

• Cognitive Code Theory

• learn language with rules (not like 1st)

• Audiolingual Theory

• communication is goal & means to the end

• Communicative Theory

Which first language acquisition theory states that children imitate adults and respond to stimulus.

• Interaction

• Behaviourist

• Innateness

• Cognitive

Which first language acquisition theory states that a child is born with a language learning device in the brain?

• Interaction

• Behaviourist

• Innateness

• Cognitive

The babble from children of different language groups sounds the same.

• True

• False

Adults can master a language without lessons in the same way children do.

• True

• False