Following this principle helps children learn abstract words and encourages children to recognize how words link to categories. ​

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

Which of these statements is a requirement of Acquisition?

A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

What is the correct language acquisition process?

In the last century children are scientifically proven to learn how to talk by copying adult’s talk.

Females can learn languages easier than males.

Every person reaches speech milestones at the same time (example: first word at 12 months)

He came to the conclusion that children’s minds are NOT blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.

Who is the main representative of Behaviorism?

Language acquisition is NOT...

What does LAD mean?

It based on the aspect that a child develops language as he develops intellect. The It focuses on the innate aspects of the brain that allows children to formulate verbal processes.

The principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture.

We acquire a second language the same way we acquire our mother tongue.

If a baby is born in KL and then moves to Shanghai, he/she will automatically be better at learning English than someone born in China?

Children need to hear sentences that they can understand without knowing a lot about the language they’re trying to learn. This view can be referred to that

Each theory of language learning is discreet and cannot be mixed with another.

The culture of students doesn’t affect how long it takes them to acquire English. All students learn language the same way.

Learning is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gesture or marks having understood meanings.

Proposed the Cognitive theory of Language development.

It is an approach to language development that focuses on the relationship between language form and social meaning.

For speakers to be bilingual, they must

What is the meaning of input?

It is a complex process of discovery, collaboration, and inquiry facilitated by language.

It is the non-conscious process by which the child acquires language.

Learning means change in behavior or behavior potential that occurs as a result of experience.

This approach to learning studied changes in behavior that are caused by a person’s direct experience of their environment, using the principles of classical and operant conditioning to explain them.

It gave birth to stimulus–response (S–R) theory which strives to explain L2 learning as the acquisition of a set of structures through the process of habit formation

Children acquire a language by imitating adults.

There are phonological and grammatical systems in all languages. There are several sub systems with in a language. The phonology of a language forms its own system as the various sounds function in a systematic way.

There is a clear definition of the term "language" universal for all the linguistic branches.

Which are the three strategies to learn the language according to the behaviorist position?

To make multi-word sentences, children have to________

It is an unconscious process that does not presuppose teaching, and the child controls the pace

When adults understand and respond to infants’ and toddlers’ nonverbal communication, they let children know that they are nonsense communication partners.

Every creature who lives learns. Man learns most. The human nervous system is very complex so are human reactions and so are human acquisition. Positive learning is vital for children’s growth and development.

The Zone of Proximal Development is between

Adoptees can speak their mother tongue well although they have not heard it after entering America.

This approach to language is concerned with real language used by real people – not schoolbook exercises contrived purely to teach some point of grammar, or reading texts devised to teach some aspect of reading.

"Do as I tell you" is _____

"Tell me why" is _____

"Lets pretend" is _____.

"I want" is _____