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WorksheetsLanguage Acquisition
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 22mins
Knowing a language means...
knowing the sound system
knowing words in the language
knowing sentence and non-sentences
able to be creative in the language
Children learn a language by imitating adults.
Behaviorists view
Cognitivist view
Constructivist view
This person concluded that children’s minds are not blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.
Jerome Bruner
Noam Chomsky
Stephen Krashen
Jeremy Harmer
We acquire a second language the same way we acquire our mother tongue.
True
False
Children can imitate sentence well due to the unaware vocabulary and structure, so language acquisition cannot be alleged as a pure imitating.
True
False
What is an example of babbling?
babababa
It's tea time!
crying sounds
mmm
What is this baby doing?
talking
babbling
cooing
crying
What style of speech this adult is using?
Babying
Babbling
Parentese
Singing
What order do babies acquire language in?
cooing, babbling, sentences, words, phrases
cooing, babbling, words, phrases, sentences
sentences, words, phrases, cooing, babbling
cooing, phrases, words, babbling, sentences
What is the name for a young child, ages 1-3?
bouncer
infant
smol
toddler
What do you call a baby who is learning to speak two languages at once?
bilearning
bilanguaged
dilingual
bilingual
True or false: Sign languages have grammar.
True
False
Language acquisition is NOT...
the process of learning a new language
the process of learning how to speak
the process learning how to pronounce words
the process of learning to eat
True or False: Every person reaches speech milestones at the same time (example: first word at 12 months)
True
False
True or False: All sounds exist in all languages.
True
False
True or False: If a baby is born in KL and then moves to Shanghai, he/she will automatically be better at learning English than someone born in China?
True
False
True or false: All babies are capable of learning any language (no matter where they are from).
True
False
What is the meaning of L.A.D from the theory of Noam Chomsky?
Language Acceptance Development
Language Art Device
Language Acquisition Device
Language Attrition Development
Formal learning happens when a foreign child goes to an English speaking country and "picks up" the language by playing and attending school with native speakers.
True
False
The underlying knowledge of a language is called:
linguistic performance
linguistic competence
linguistic development
What does comprehensible input mean?
Extralinguistic information
Challenging language in real and complex context
Understanding language in natural communication
Focusing on grammar
Adults learn second languages at a quicker rate than young children.
True
False
The culture of students doesn’t affect how long it takes them to acquire English. All students learn language the same way.
True
False
Some scholars have given fundamental importance to learner’s innate capacity for language acquisition, while others insinuated the role of the environment. What does innate mean?
incidental
intuitive
learned
acquired
True or False: Parents/caregivers talking in parentese to their babies happens in many cultures.
True
False
Females can learn languages easier than males.
True
False
The system of principles, conditions, and rules that are elements or properties of all human languages is referred to as:
Universal Grammar
Language Acquisition Device
behaviorism
input
What is the characteristic element of telegraphic speech?
There are no function words.
There are function words.
There are no content words.
There is no correct answer.
During which stage and what age do children typically begin producing varied syllable combination such as, ba-da-da-da.
Cooing stage. It happens between 2-4 months.
The one-word stage. It happens between 12-18 months.
Telegraphic speech. It happens between 2-3 years old.
Babbling stage. It happens between 6-8 months.
What is the correct language acquisition process?
Learning Imitation, Learning correction, Developing morphology, syntax, and semantics
Learning Imitation, Learning correction, Developing syntax, semantics, morphology
Learning Imitation, Learning correction, Developing semantics, morphology, and syntax
Learning Imitation, Learning correction, Developing morphology, semantics, and syntax
Mike has been in the Jakarta for one month and still won’t speak a single word of Bahasa Indonesia. Which of the following most likely explains his behaviour?
Mike is probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Mike probably doesn’t want to learn Bahasa Indonesia.
Mike is exhibiting defiant behaviour as a normal part of culture shock.
Mike is probably engaged in a natural part of language acquisition, called the “silent period.”
After being in the Kuching for two years, Alan seems to have no problem talking with his friends at lunch. But when it comes to classwork, he says he doesn’t understand anything. What’s probably going on?
Alan doesn’t want to do his classwork, so he claims he doesn’t understand.
Alan has proficiency in social language but not in academic language.
Alan has a learning disability.
Alan’s pretends to not understand, so he can get help from friends.
At this stage, the student still relies on context clues but speech becomes more frequent and longer in length.
Advanced fluency
Intermediate fluency
Beginning fluency
Speech emergent
Which theory says that if a child does not learn a language of any kind by the age of 7, they will never be able to master a language?
Insight
Intuition
Phoneme
Morpheme
Critical Period
Children begin to demonstrate that they know how to put words in a sensible order during the ________ stage.
babbling
syntactic
two-word
three-word
phonetic
Which of the following is not a stage of language development?
Babbling
Holophrastic
Telegraphic
Telepathic
