Baby Talk
This term refers to the early language of children, and also could be used to describe a stream or creek
What is babbling?
This linguist states that children are born with an innate language learning ability
Who is Chomsky?
This term refers to someone who only speaks one language
What is monolingualism?
This term is the first step in Krashen's Model
What is acquisition?
The term that refers to the relationships between two groups
What is social dominance?
It's around this age that children begin putting together small sentences of uttering of two words.
What is 18 months?
According to Chomsky, children acquire language without this often necessary tool for learning
What is instruction?
The term that refers to someone who speaks more than one language
What is bilingualism?
The second hypothesis of Krashen states that language is acquired in this way
What is Natural Order?
The term that refers to the mindset of the learner that has a great impact on social distance
What is attitude?
Research by this individual showed that those learning sign language during younger years go through the same stages as those learning spoken language
Who is Pettito?
Children's mistakes in language learning are often due to this
Overgeneralization
The percentage of people within the United States that are estimated to speak more than one language
What is 17%?
The term that refers to how people acquire language in only on way
What is the input hypothesis?
The term applied to those who want to learn a new language and actively participate in doing so
What is motivation?
This stage of language development is rapid and complex
What is the two-word stage?
Pinker states that children figure out how to divide up speech without this occurring within the speech stream
What is physical separation?
The term L2 refers to what
What is Language 2 or second language?
The type of input that leads to language development
What is simplified input?
The term applied to those who may have difficulties adjusting to a new language learning environment
What is culture shock?
Many studies focus on the interactions between child and this parental figure
Who are mothers?
The word applied to children as they test out different language errors
What is hypothesis?
This linguist states that the same concepts that apply to children learning language also applies to adults learning a second language
Who is Krashen?
The idea that the mindset of the individual and environment impacts the language learning possiblities
A term that refers to how people absorb information around them when learning a new language
What is Acculturation?