Insights from Developmental Psychology- focus on child
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Insights from Linguistics-focus on language
Second Language Acquisition
Krashen's Monitor Model
100
Children develop the physical capacity for speech and begin to babble.
What happens in a child's first year?
100
The meaning of many words and phrases depends on the
What is context?
100
___ believes a typical child's development acquisition of language does not usually include specific training
Who is Chomsky?
100
Thought to be learned in the same way as biology or history.
What is a second language?
100
The notion that humans acquire a new language subconsciously as we receive messages we understand.
What is the acquisition/learning hypothesis?
200
Children can form individual words.
What development stage is a child at at their one year mark?
200
The speech or language adults adjust to and use as they interact with children
What is "motherese"?
200
While adults are always learning new vocabulary, the basic components of ___ and ___ are acquired in very early stages.
What is phonology and syntax?
200
A child learns two languages at the same time since birth.
What is simultaneous bilingualism or infant bilingualism?
200
Krashen's model is based on the ideas of ___.
Who is Chomsky?
300
Children's early stages of language are thought to be ___ because they only use the key words to express a message.
What is telegraphic?
300
Ability to use a language in appropriate context.
What is communicative competence?
300
Chomsky believes that the human brain has a special area designed for language, also known as ____.
What is a language acquisition device?
300
A child learns a language at home and another language in a school setting.
What is sequential bilingualism?
300
Some aspects of language are picked up earlier than others
What is natural order hypothesis?
400
Children don't learn other things as quickly as ___.
What is language?
400
___ looked at the differences in the language development for children who grew up in different communities.
Who is Heath?
400
Chomsky's term for the innate language knowledge that the human brain already has?
What is Universal Grammar?
400
Researchers look into the system of language a learner is developing. This system is called ____.
What is interlanguage?
400
Acquisition helps with the phonology, vocabulary, and syntax of a new language but learning helps with the rules that we consider when we speak or write.
What is the monitor hypothesis?
500
___ discovered that infants who are exposed to oral language are going through the same stages as children learning a sign language.
Who is Petitto.
500
Heath's study shows how children's social context affects their ___
What is language acquisition?
500
First language acquisition
What is universal phenomenon?
500
____ believes that the second language acquisition theory acts as a middle ground between research and practice.
Who is Krashen?
500
When people acquire language by receiving oral or written messages that they understand.