First Language Acquisition
Piaget's theory of child development is characterized by developmental sequences determined by the _________ of the child.
Age
When we can think of the structure and some other features of a word but can't produce it at the moment, this is an example of the ___ ___ ___ ___ phenomenon.
Tip of the Tongue
Students studying English in Japan would best be described by which of the following acronyms:
ESL / EFL
EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
True / False: The grammar-translation method is currently supported by second language acquisition practitioners for developing communicative competence in second language learners.
False
True / False: A piece of evidence that children do not learn their first language by imitation alone is that they resist correction by their caregivers.
True
In the 1870s, Carl Wernicke made an important connection between patients with brain injury and language impairments. What is now known as Wernicke’s area is mainly responsible for:
Immigrants learning English in the United States would best be described by which of the following acronyms:
ESL / EFL
ESL (English as a Second Language)
_________ refers to using sounds, expressions, or structures from the first language while performing in the second language.
Transfer
When a child learns that -s makes a noun plural, they tend to add -s to every noun such as foots and mens. This is an example of:
Overgeneralization
Curtiss’s case study of the feral child Genie provides evidence for which phenomenon in first language acquisition:
The Critical Period
A language learner wants to learn a second language in order to take part in the social life of a community using that language and to become an accepted member of that community. This kind of motivation is called ________ motivation.
Integrative
In Spanish, plurals are marked by -s (e.g., 1 gato vs. 2 gatos) as they are in English (e.g., 1 cat vs. 2 cats). Spanish speakers learning English as a second language using -s to produce plural nouns is best described by which of the following terms:
Positive Transfer / Negative Transfer
Positive Transfer
A child acquiring English negatives passes through three different stages. Choose the expression that matches the first stage of negative marking:
Expressions such as fifty-pound dog of bag food and use the door to open the key are examples of the following:
In communicative language teaching, errors by second language learners are:
A natural result of the language learning process
In French, adjectives usually follow the noun they describe. A French speaker learning English as a second language says, *The house green is beautiful. With respect to the placement of the adjective green, this is an example of what SLA phenomenon?
Positive Transfer / Negative Transfer
Negative Transfer
When a baby calls all male adults daddy, this is an example of what First Language Acquisition process?
Overextension
Broca's area is primarily responsible for ______ language.
Producing
An immigrant has been living and working in the United States for several years. They use English on a daily basis at work. Despite ample opportunities to hear and speak English, they consistently fail to produce the third-person singular -s in their speech resulting in sentences like She work at the school and He wake up early every day. Which term best describes the situation above?
Fossilization
Regarding the components of communicative competence, we can say that sociolinguistic competence in second language learning is: