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Language Acquisition in Bilingual People

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is bilingualism associated with in many industrialized societies?

a)

with immigration and low socioeconomic status

b)

with prestige

c)

with high level of knowledge

2.

Which is one of the hallmarks of our species?

a)

Eat

b)

acquire language

c)

travel from one place to another

3.

Is it difficult for children to learn their mother tongue?

a)

True

b)

False.

4.

There is a disagreement that monolingual and bilingual children don’t pass critical milestones in language acquisition at the same age.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Monolingual and bilingual children have relatively equal sized (a)   .

6.

Bilinguals have the same large overall vocabularies as same-aged monolinguals peer.


a) Yes

b) No

4 lines
7.

All children acquire the _______, _____________, ____________ and ______________ of their native language within the first few years of life.

a)

phonology

b)

accuracy

c)

syntax

d)

semantics

e)

morphology

8.

The structural properties of the particular language they are learning can influence both the learning and the placement in which different structures are mastered.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The early-acquired ________________ (phonetic perception) and _______________ (word learning), will give us a clear window into bilingual language development throughout the infancy period while retaining focus on one central question.

a)

primary language acquisition process and the visual-concept process

b)

perceptual processes and later-acquired conceptual processes

10.

If you had a baby, would you speak he/him in the languages you know?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Maybe

d)

I don't know

e)

Can you repeat the question?