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WorksheetsLD_W2
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 5mins
One potential way of learning language is by unconsciously attending to the surrounding input and deducing patterns in it. This method is applicable to:
babies learning their L1, and babies learning two Ls at once
older children learning a L2 (or later), and adults learning a L2 (or later)
deaf children learning a signed language
all of these populations
none of these populations
A piece of furniture to sit on is called "chair" in English, "Stuhl" in German, and "silla" in Spanish. This illustrates the feature of:
arbitrariness
semanticity
productivity
displacement
Triangulation is ...
testing a phenomenon with several different methods to provide a more complete picture
experimental method using eye tracking to see what a participant is paying attention to as they are hearing language
testing one child at several time points to see their trajectory of language development
Longitudinal comparison is ...
testing a phenomenon with several different methods to provide a more complete picture
experimental method using eye tracking to see what a participant is paying attention to as they are hearing language
testing one child at several time points to see their trajectory of language development
The visual world paradigm is ...
testing a phenomenon with several different methods to provide a more complete picture
experimental method using eye tracking to see what a participant is paying attention to as they are hearing language
testing one child at several time points to see their trajectory of language development
The sentences "I want to become an engineer" and "My sister lives in Canada" illustrate the feature of:
arbitrariness
semanticity
productivity
displacement
Select which of the following aspects of language need to be learned by both first and second language learners:
semantics
lexicon
pragmatics
syntax
phonology & morphology
Which of the following are advantages of collecting data from naturalistic interactions of language learners?
The simplicity of meaningful comparisons between children of the same age
Analyzing rare structures (e.g. passives & relative clauses)
Naturalistic assessment takes less time than others to collect and transcribe data.
sophisticated statistics are not necessary to get valuable data
the data reflects language typical in everyday interactions
Which of the following are disadvantages of doing experiments to assess patterns in language learning?
sophisticated statistics are necessary to get useful information from the data
1000+ participants must be tested to get meaningful results
creating materials for experiments can take a lot of time
It's hard to generalize experiment results to other language learners.
Results only show individual learners, not patterns of groups of participants
Hypothesis testing features include:
errors reflect possible structures in other languages
language learning is like learning in other cognitive domains
language-specific knowledge is innate
children confirm or disprove hypotheses about language structures
language learning is based on input
Triggering features include:
errors reflect possible structures in other languages
it is based on the fact that children learn L by age 5 despite faulty and partial info
language-specific knowledge is innate
errors reflect statistics of the input
language learning is based on input
Associative learning features include:
errors reflect possible structures in other languages
it is based on the fact that children learn L by age 5 despite faulty and partial info
language learning is like learning in other cognitive domains
errors reflect statistics of the input
language learning is based on input
