True/False. The more proficient the learner is in his/her language, the easier the learner will acquire the second language.
What is True
100
True/ False. A detailed description and analysis of the kinds of errors made by second language learners.
What is False
100
This is when a second language learner leave out some elements of a sentence, or where all verbs have the same form regardless of person, number, or tense.
What is simplification
100
What is the study of how languages is used in context to express things like directness, politeness and deference?
What is Pragmatics
100
This refers to the order in which certain features of a language are acquired in a certain language.
What is Developmental Sequence
200
Daily double - True/False. If the second language is similar to the learner’s first language, the learner will have an easier time learning the second language.
What is False
200
Yes or no? Does the language learner’s first language play an important role in Phonology?
What is Yes
200
When a second language learner makes errors with words or phrases in the target language because of their native language.
What is interference
200
Pragmatics will be better learned not with implicit instructions but what?
What is Explicit Instructions
200
While in a friend's English learner classroom, you hear a student say, "He don't like it." The child is struggling with this concept of developmental sequence.
What is Negation
300
What competence describes the ability to use language in a variety of settings, such as in relationships and different situations such as buying something at the grocery store or talking on the phone?
What is Communicative competence
300
What are the words called that look similar and have the same meaning in two different languages?
What is Cognate
300
This occurs when some features in a learner’s language may stop changing.
What is fossilization
300
What is the word for describing a softening of the tone or phrase to take out the possible negative impression that the sentence may make?
What is mitigation
300
This is the relative accuracy of grammatical forms in learner language.
What is Accuracy Order
400
Jacquelyn Schachter, an educational researcher, described the phenomenon where a learner prefers not to learn a certain second language because the second language was too different and too distant from their first. What is this phenomenon called?
What is avoidance
400
Who proposed that the best source of vocabulary growth was reading for pleasure?
What is Krashen
400
These have been found to be systematic, but they are also dynamic, continually evolving as learners receive more input and revise their hypotheses about the second language.
What is interlanguages
400
Daily double - For a long time, this second language location was considered incompetent of providing a good setting to learn pragmatics.
What is Classroom
400
"The little boy plays with the bike," said Susie. In her sentence, Susie struggles with this stage of Possessive determiners.
What is Pre-emergence
500
Many researches have been done to break down the relationship between the first language and the newly learned second language. Many questions remain as the researchers focus more on communicative competence, including: vocabulary, pragmatics and ____________.
What is Pronunciation
500
Roughly, how many words does an educated adult English speaker know?
What is 20,000
500
A detailed description and analysis of the kinds of errors made by second language learners.
What is error analysis
500
Pragmatics focuses on not knowing or memorizing the words, but ________it.
What is using
500
This refers to the place in a sentence where a particular grammatical form is required if the sentence is to be correct.