WorksheetsChild Language Acquisition & Its Theories
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 10mins
Identify this theory:
Children learn language through imitating adults.
Behaviourist Theory
Cognitive Theory
Innateness Theory
Interactional Theory
In language acquisition, the psychologist B.F. Skinner was responsible for the (a) theory.
Language used by parents to their young child is called
(a)
Which of the following cognitive development stages were theorised by Piaget?
Sensational, Preoperational,
Concrete operational,
Formal operational
Sensorimotor,
Preoperational,
Concrete operational,
Formal operational
Sensorimotor
Predetermined,
Concised operational,
Formal operational
Sensational,
Egocentric,
Concised operational,
Formal operational
At what stage would a child be when they experience the world and gain knowledge through their senses and motor movements.
Sensorimotor stage
Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal concrete operational stage
The formal operational stage include understanding abstract and hypothetical ideas/concepts.
True or False?
True
False
What is meant by egocentricism?
When the child sees everything from their point of view and believes that everyone else thinks like them.
When the child has already developed language the way they want to.
When the child has already understood how the world works.
When the child only believes that their parents are the only people that care about them.
What years (ages) are the Preoperational stage of cognitive development?
0 - 2 years old
2 - 7 years old
7 - 11 years old
12 years old and upwards
“Children’s minds are not blank states to be filled by imitating language they hear from the environment”
Who believed in this theory?
B.F Skinner
Noam Chomsky
Jean Piaget
Vygotsky
Which aspect of language acquisition theory best explains the production of phonemes that children start using?
Behaviorist Theory
Innateness Theory
Cognitive Theory
What language theory can explain how children are able to produce grammar when they have never heard it from adults? E.g. give me other one spoon
Chomsky’s Universal Grammar
WUG Test
Formal Operational Stage
Children have the ability to perceive the correct pronunciation despite the inability to produce those phonemes. This is referred to the (a)
