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First Language Acquisition - Developmental Stages

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Cooing and crying are characteristics of...

a)

Small babies

b)

1 year-old children

c)

18 months-old children

d)

2 years-old children

2.

Over exaggerating while talking to children is an example of...

a)

Imitation

b)

Parenteese

c)

Babbling

3.

What's an example of babbling?

a)

mmm

b)

crying sounds

c)

babababa

4.

Language acquisition is...

a)

the process of learning a new language

b)

the process of learning how to speak

c)

the process learning how to pronounce words

d)

All of them

5.

What order do babies acquire language in?

a)

cooing, babbling, sentences, words, phrases

b)

cooing, babbling, words, phrases, sentences

c)

sentences, words, phrases, cooing, babbling

d)

cooing, phrases, words, babbling, sentences

6.

True or False: Babies learn to talk by imitating sounds that they hear

a)

True

b)

False

7.

True or False: Every person reaches speech milestones at the same time (like, first word at 12 months)

a)

True

b)

False

8.

True or False: If a baby is born in the US and then moves to China, they will automatically be better at learning English than someone born in China?

a)

True

b)

False

9.

True or false: Babies are capable of learning any language (it doesn't matter where they are from)

a)

True

b)

False

10.

True or False: Parents/caregivers talking in parentese to their babies happens in many cultures.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

True or False: All sounds exist in all languages

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Children learn a language by imitating adults.

a)

Behaviorists view

b)

Cognitivist view

c)

Constructivist view

13.

This person concluded that children’s minds are not blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.

a)

Noam Chomsky

b)

Stephen Krashen

c)

Vygotsky

14.

What is the meaning of L.A.D from the theory of Noam Chomsky?

a)

Language Acceptance Development

b)

Language Acquisition Device

c)

Language Acquisition Development

15.

The system of principles, conditions, and rules that are elements or properties of all human languages is referred to as:

a)

Universal Grammar

b)

Language Acquisition Device

c)

Cognitivism

d)

Input

16.

What is the characteristic element of telegraphic speech?

a)

There are no content words.

b)

There are function words.

c)

There is no correct answer.

d)

There are no function words.

17.

During which stage and what age do children typically begin producing varied syllable combination such as, ba-da-da-da.

a)

Cooing stage. It happens between 2-4 months.

b)

The one-word stage. It happens between 12-18 months.

c)

Telegraphic speech. It happens between 2-3 years old.

d)

Babbling stage. It happens between 6-8 months.

18.

Children begin to demonstrate that they know how to put words in a sensible order during the ________ stage.

a)

babbling

b)

syntactic

c)

two-word

d)

three-word

19.

The child who says “milk gone” is engaging in ____________. This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of ____________.

a)

Babbling; semantics

b)

Babbling; syntax

c)

Telegraphic speech; syntax

d)

Telegraphic speech; semantics