Language Dev. Milestones
Form, Content, & Use
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Measurements of Language Dev.
100

Conveys similarity between two ideas or objects by stating those two ideas or objects are the same.

What is metaphor?

100

Language used to convey information: _______

What is expository discourse?

100

Women usually face their conversational partners and make _____.

What is eye contact?

100

A systematic collection of one's work

What is a portfolio? 

200

Refers to the unmet general expectations that are not the fault of an individual. 

What is irony?

200

Bear vs. Bare is an example of this type of lexical ambiguity

What is a homophone?

200

Refers to the components of a narrative: setting, characters, episodes; as well as the rules and how they are governed.

What is story grammar?

200

Feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning

What is Formative Assessment?

300

Three critical developments of pre-reading stage

What are oral language, print awareness, phonological awareness?

300

_______ and _______ are vehicles used for measuring complex syntax development.

What is persuasive writing and narrative tasks?

300

______ is referred to when older adults struggle with remembering and finding words.

What is "tip of my tongue" phenomenon? 

300

Language form is broken up into two different measurements:

What is Measurement of Phonological Development and Measurement of Syntactic Development?

400

What form of figurative language does this statement match?


"His friend's hand was as soft as a rock".

What is irony?

400

Three notable areas of development in language form

What is Phonological development, morphological development, and complex syntax development?

400

Two main areas of language in which gender differences may play a role:

What is Vocabulary use and Conversational Pragmatics? 

400

To inform potential language learning activities, or to measure the language-development process.

What is Formal Evaluations?

500

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The ability to think about and analyze language as an object of attention

What is metalinguistic competence?

500

The four areas of notable content development for school-age students

What is lexical development, understanding of multiple meanings, understanding of lexical and sentential ambiguity, development of literature language?

500

The male brain is ____ larger than the female brain

What is 10 percent?

500

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Consists of an independent clause and any of its modifiers, such as dependent clause. 

What are Communication Units (C-Units) or Terminable Units (T-Units)?

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