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LD_W2

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

One potential way of learning language is by unconsciously attending to the surrounding input and deducing patterns in it. This method is applicable to:

a)

babies learning their L1, and babies learning two Ls at once

b)

older children learning a L2 (or later), and adults learning a L2 (or later)

c)

deaf children learning a signed language

d)

all of these populations

e)

none of these populations

2.

A piece of furniture to sit on is called "chair" in English, "Stuhl" in German, and "silla" in Spanish. This illustrates the feature of:

a)

arbitrariness

b)

semanticity

c)

productivity

d)

displacement

3.

Triangulation is ...

a)

testing a phenomenon with several different methods to provide a more complete picture

b)

experimental method using eye tracking to see what a participant is paying attention to as they are hearing language

c)

testing one child at several time points to see their trajectory of language development

4.

Longitudinal comparison is ...

a)

testing a phenomenon with several different methods to provide a more complete picture

b)

experimental method using eye tracking to see what a participant is paying attention to as they are hearing language

c)

testing one child at several time points to see their trajectory of language development

5.

The visual world paradigm is ...

a)

testing a phenomenon with several different methods to provide a more complete picture

b)

experimental method using eye tracking to see what a participant is paying attention to as they are hearing language

c)

testing one child at several time points to see their trajectory of language development

6.

The sentences "I want to become an engineer" and "My sister lives in Canada" illustrate the feature of:

a)

arbitrariness

b)

semanticity

c)

productivity

d)

displacement

7.

Select which of the following aspects of language need to be learned by both first and second language learners:

a)

semantics

b)

lexicon

c)

pragmatics

d)

syntax

e)

phonology & morphology

8.

Which of the following are advantages of collecting data from naturalistic interactions of language learners?

a)

The simplicity of meaningful comparisons between children of the same age

b)

Analyzing rare structures (e.g. passives & relative clauses)

c)

Naturalistic assessment takes less time than others to collect and transcribe data.

d)

sophisticated statistics are not necessary to get valuable data

e)

the data reflects language typical in everyday interactions

9.

Which of the following are disadvantages of doing experiments to assess patterns in language learning?

a)

sophisticated statistics are necessary to get useful information from the data

b)

1000+ participants must be tested to get meaningful results

c)

creating materials for experiments can take a lot of time

d)

It's hard to generalize experiment results to other language learners.

e)

Results only show individual learners, not patterns of groups of participants

10.

Hypothesis testing features include:

a)

errors reflect possible structures in other languages

b)

language learning is like learning in other cognitive domains

c)

language-specific knowledge is innate

d)

children confirm or disprove hypotheses about language structures

e)

language learning is based on input

11.

Triggering features include:

a)

errors reflect possible structures in other languages

b)

it is based on the fact that children learn L by age 5 despite faulty and partial info

c)

language-specific knowledge is innate

d)

errors reflect statistics of the input

e)

language learning is based on input

12.

Associative learning features include:

a)

errors reflect possible structures in other languages

b)

it is based on the fact that children learn L by age 5 despite faulty and partial info

c)

language learning is like learning in other cognitive domains

d)

errors reflect statistics of the input

e)

language learning is based on input