WorksheetsCST331 - Revision
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 19mins
_____________ believed that ‘language development is inborn or innate.”
Krashen
Chomsky
Lenneberg
Piaget
LAD is the short form of...
(a)
______________involves difficulty with the timing of sounds and words which impairs overall fluency.
Stuttering
Dyslexia
Disgraphia
Expressive language disorder
Developing a child’s vocabulary is crucial because he or she will find it much easier to read and write words that are already known.
True
False
Read aloud should be done:
Daily at all grade levels for at least 15 minutes a day.
Once in a while.
At the beginning when students come into the class – calms them down and set the tone for the class.
Anytime!
_________________is the grammar that regulates how words are combined into sentences.
Phonological system
Morphological system
Syntactic system
Pragmatic system
By making lists with students, writing notes to students, writing morning messages, and recording questions and information on charts, we are ….
Improving handwriting.
Preparing materials to use in the class.
Teaching them to pay attention to the teacher.
Teaching the functions of written language.
Paralinguistic clues help the learners understand mood and meaning.
True
False
Reading improves children’s vocabulary knowledge, spelling and writing skill.
True
False
At the initial stages of second language learning, children perform better than adults.
True
False
Reading is important for language learners because...
Reading is useful for language acquisition.
Improves their vocabulary knowledge, spelling and writing.
Provides good models for writing.
Helps the teacher to keep the kids occupied.
Communicative competence involves knowing how to use the grammar and vocabulary of the language to achieve communicative goals and knowing how to do this in a socially appropriate way.
True
False
The teaching of Traditional Grammar is still very popular and widely used.
True
False
The first language requires conscious effort; the acquisition process of the first language is not subconscious.
True
False
For a topic based speaking activity to be successful, arguments for and against the topic should not be fed to the class in advance.
True
False
___________ helps pupils to master the sounds, rhythms, and intonation of the English language through simple reproduction.
Songs
Charts
Chants
Poems
Psychological benefits of using songs include ....
Motivation
Develops confidence
Participation is limited
Promotes individual participation
In a successful classroom discussion, all the students get the opportunity to speak, and contributions are evenly distributed.
True
False
_____________ activity can be done by interacting with other students in the class.
Topic based activity
Task based activity
Both
None of the above
Children go through ________ stages when acquiring their first language.
4
3
5
6
When acquiring a second language, the second stage the learners go through is.....
Early production
Speech emergence
Silent period
Intermediate fluency
The first language is ‘acquired’ and the second language is ‘learned’.
True
False
A newborn of can identify the sounds of the world languages (150 sounds) until he or she is 6 months old.
True
False
A second language is the mother tongue or native language of a person while a first language is a language a person learns in order to communicate with the native speaker of that language.
True
False
After a few months of producing one-word utterances, a child will begin to use two-word utterances and continue to do so until they are around the age of 2.5 years old.
True
False
The telegraphic stage is not the last stage of language acquisition before a child can speak fluently and begins roughly around 2.5 years of age and onward indefinitely until a child has fluent language skills.
True
False
During __________ stage, children seem to have a much better understanding of syntax and semantics.
Babbling
One-word
Two-word
Beyond-two-word
A _______________ is an individual who is exposed to their first and second languages at the same time.
sequential bilingual
simultaneous bilingual
compound bilingual
The first language is not a natural part of a person’s everyday life.
True
False
The brain regions responsible for language development are _________________
Broca's area
Wernicke's area
Motor cortex
Temporal lobe
If a child who is pushed to learn to write too soon may come to connect the activity of writing with failure and disappointment.
True
False
According to _____________ "Language is learned in the same way as other kinds of behaviour."
Vygotsky
Skinner
Piaget
Chomsky
________________ has suggested that there is a critical age for language acquisition, that is from birth to puberty.
Piaget
Vygotsky
Krashen
Lenneberg
For _____________, language was one of a number of systems that are developed in childhood.
Krashen
Piaget
Vygotsky
Chomsky
_______________ argued that in supportive interactive environment, children are able to advance to a higher level of knowledge and performance.
Vygotsky
Piaget
Chomsky
Skinner
