First Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Vygotsky's Theory
The Role of a Teacher
Learning a Language
100
A child's first developed language
What is babbling?
100
Who said the quote "A normal child acquires this knowledge of language on relatively slight exposure and without specific training."
Who is Chomsky.
100
ZPD stands for?
What is Zone of Proximal Development.
100
What is the best way to view an second language learner?
What is an apprentice.
100
Before we can consider what language is we need to
What is consider how people acquire languages.
200
Children's first utterance's are usually words that are
What is important to them?
200
Children are born with
What is an implicit knowledge of language in general.
200
Refers to the area that is just beyond what the student can currently do.
What is Zone of Proximal Development.
200
Cazden three ways a teacher can mediate learning
What is direct instruction, modeling and scaffolding.
200
Chomsky makes an important distinction in his study between
What is competence and performance.
300
Brown discovered that there are strong parallel's between 2 kind of development in children. They are?
What is language development and cognitive development.
300
Linguists argue that evidence suggests humans are born with?
What is an innate ability to acquire languages.
300
The second aspect of Vygotsky's theory
What is the distinction between spontaneous and scientific concepts.
300
An intentional act by the teacher that includes individuals, small groups or an entire class.
What is modeling.
300
When Chomsky and other linguists refer to someones use of "grammar" they are referring to
What is the rules that allow people to communicate.
400
During the first year children develop the physical capacity for?
What is speech.
400
What depends on the way language develops?
What is the social context.
400
Spontaneous concepts are
What is ideas we develop fairly directly from everyday experiences.
400
Supports workers during a building's construction and then is taken down once the building is completed.
What is scaffold.
400
What do we acquire when we acquire a language?
What is we develop the language we need to do certain things.
500
Around 18 months children are able to put together this many syllable words.
What is 2.
500
Researchers from what 3 fields study language acquisition?
What is Child Psychology, Anthropology and Linguistics.
500
Where did Vygotsky conduct a major portion of his research?
What is Uzbekistan.
500
Cazden explains "....seems to focus on two aspects of language development: appropriate social language use and correct vocabulary."
What is direct instruction.
500
What is the most basic function of language
What is referential functions.
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