The study of how sounds are organized and used in language.
What is Phonology?
100
This researcher conducted a longitudinal study with bilingual students which helped determine how long it takes learn academic language.
Who is Virginia Collier?
100
The belief that humans are born with mental structured specifically designed for acquiring language.
What is innatist?
100
The ability to treat language as an object.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
200
Learning a second language without losing the first
What is additive bilingualism?
200
The smallest grammatical unit in a language.
What is a morpheme?
200
Second language acquisition theorist who has a five-point hypothesis.
Who is Stephen Krashen?
200
Theory based on learners innate abilities AND the opportunity to be in conversation with others. Interlocutors often must use modified speech.
What is interactionist?
200
Adapted speech used to address children or language learners.
What is modified input?
300
Participant in a conversation.
What is an interlocutor?
300
The study of the way in which phrases and sentence are
constructed from smaller units; how sentences are related to each other. Also known as word order.
What is syntax?
300
Behaviorist who was most famous in the 1940s and 1950s.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
300
The belief that learning happens with habits are developed. Language learners repeat the utterances around them and, with positive reinforcement, language is acquired.
What is behaviorism?
300
The element Stephen Krashen says is the most important part of language learning.
What is comprehensible input?
400
Term used to describe language the learner can understand.
What is comprehensible input?
400
The idea that the way a phrase is said impacts the meaning.
What is pragmatics?
400
Interactionist who developed the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Vygotsky?
400
The idea that language is first social and then individual. Learning is dependent on face-to-face interaction.
What is sociocultural theory?
400
Period of time when learner is able to hear and to listen to the language without being pressured to speak it.
What is silent period?
500
A type of error where the learner is trying to use the rule in
context where it does not belong. For example: putting an “ed” at the end of an irregular verb as in buyed instead of bought.
What is an overgeneralization error?
500
The study of meaning of a language
What is a Semantics?
500
Innatist who developed the idea of Universal Grammar
Who is Noam Chomsky?
500
Sees second language acquisition as a conscious and reasoned thinking process, involving the deliberate use of learning strategies.