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WorksheetsHow are Languages Learned? - Applied Linguistics
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
Early language development varies reasonably in different countries, cultures and social classes.
True
False
At around 1, babies lose their sharp auditory discrimination.
True
False
It appears that grammatical morphemes are learned... (more than 1 correct)
only after the school years
in varying ages, in the same gradation of complexity
in a somewhat similar order
randomly, depending on the input a child receives
There hasn't been any evidence suggesting that reading affects the expansion of vocabulary in children.
True
False
This perspective believes that the environment is the source of everything a child needs to learn. Imitation and practice are the primary source of language development, until they become habits.
Interactional/developmental
Behaviorist
Innatist
What are the criticisms towards the behaviorist perspective in first language acquisition? (select all that apply)
Children will learn at the same rate if they imitate a little or a lot.
It does not account for the complexity of structures children will acquire.
Negative reinforcement can be harmful to children.
This perspective believes we have a natural ability to learn languages, just like all other biological functions. We have a "Universal Grammar" we use as a guide to "discover" the language by ourselves.
Interactional/developmental
Behaviorist
Innatist
This perspective criticizes that the other emphasized the final product too much, rather than the process. They believe language is an example of how children can learn from experiences and there isn't an assumption of dedicated brain structures. They believe language development occurs along with cognitive development, and it represents what they have understood.
Behaviorist
Interactionist
Innatist
A behaviorist perspective on SLA has influenced the creation of the _____ method
communicative language teaching
audiolingual
suggestopedia
A behaviorist perspective and the contrastive analysis hypothesis have been rejected due to...
a lack of evidence of a "transfer of habits"
because students were not learning and still made mistakes
because other perspectives answered all the questions we have
An innatist perspective defends that the best way to learn a second language is... (choose two)
by memorizing and repeating
in the same way we learned our first language
by using the language in real social practices
by being exposed to language that is slightly more complex than what we already know
The cognitive theory of language acquisition is based on the aspect that a child develops language as they develop ______
social skills
the need for communication
habits
intellect
Which one is NOT a tenet of a cognitive perspective?
learners develop a stronger and stronger network of associations [...] between language features and the contexts in which they occur
Through exposure to thousands of examples of language associated with particular meanings, speakers of a particular language come tounderstand how to use the 'cues' that signal specific function
conversational interaction is an essential, if not sufficient, condition for second language acquisition
nothing is learned unless it has been 'noticed' and then put into practice
people can gain control over their mental processes as a consequence of internalizing what others say to them and what they say to others.
The foundation of the sociocultural perspective would be the relationship between the child and ...
the response of the society around them
the brain maturity
the necessity to talk
In a sociocultural cultural perspective, we learn by...
getting feedback
participating in social practices
memorizing
In an cognitive perspective, language development occurs as a consequence of cognitive matury. In a sociocultural perspective, language is...
the externalization (the result) of cognitive development
the same thing.
the internalization of learning
