BAKER
At this level, children have age appropriate competence in one but not two languages.
What is middle floor or second threshold?
This is what Kuhl calls babies that can discriminate sounds of all languages no matter what country we're testing and what language we are using.
What are citizens of the world?
This type of speech is also typical of a period of language acquisition by very young children learning their first language.
What is telegraphic speech?
This term emerged at the federal level to refer to children from birth to age eight who are exposed to English while still learning their home language.
What is dual language learner?
Students who need the most support from the educational system.
What are emergent bilinguals?
True-False
Resent research indicates that relatively balanced monolinguals show superior skills in tasks that require selective attention to information in the executive control system of the brain.
False, right answer is bilinguals
These people must keep two sets of statistics in mind at once and flip between them one after the other.
What are bilinguals?
Fill in the blank
When young second-language learners begin to use their new language observers have noted two consistent features__________,_________.
True-False
It is important to track the number of children who are classified as ELL upon kindergarten entry to note the impact of a year in Pre-kindergarten.
True
True-False
Despite popular perceptions, emergent bilinguals are by no means all immigrants or foreign born.
True.
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Far from making people mentally confused, bilingualism is now associated with a mild degree of _____________.
What is intellectual superiority?
True-False
Does it take a tv and a radio for babies to take statistics?
False
It takes a human for babies to take statistics.
Consists of young children using unanalyzed chunks of formulaic phrases in situations which others have been observed to use them.
What is formulaic speech?
This term conveys optimism and respect for children's abilities to develop more than one language in school.
What is emergent multilingual learners?
A gender neutral alternative to Latino, Latina, Latin@, has been increasingly used by scholars and the community to include those who are trans or gender non-comfirming.
What is Latinix?
Is a valuable part of bilingual's language accomplishments that has function and purpose.
What is language switching?
This machine picks up the magnetic fields that change as we do our thinking.
What is Magnetoencephalography (MEG)?
This is when children can begin building their own sentences, not just continuing to repeat formulaic phrases or names for people and things.
What is productive language use?
These two states mandate bilingual instruction at the pre-school level.
What is Illinois and Texas?
This language is the highest spoken by the emergent bilinguals.
What is Spanish?
Is a by-product of playing and interacting with people
What is language acquisition?
_____________ has a critical period for learning.
What is language?
True-False
Every time after a lengthy nonverbal period, most young children are ready to try out what they have discovered about the new language in communicative situations.
False
Sometimes, not every time.
True-False
Introducing more English in the home can strengthen the ability to develop strong home language skills.
False
Weaken the ability.
This state shows the highest population of emergent bilinguals.
What is California?