What is the name of Chomsky's theory of first language acquisition that states that language is a result of biological programming?
100
This theorist says that learning cannot account for the rapid rate at which a child acquires English
Who is Chomsky?
100
Positive transfer
What kind of transfer occurs when an individual is successful in applying a structure from his/her first language to the second language?
100
The name of the printer who brought the printing press to England and printed the first book in English
Who is William Caxton?
200
The most important writer during the Middle English period
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
The three non-linguistic stages of language acquisition
What are crying, cooing and babbling?
200
MLUs (Mean length of utterance)
What are the units in which syntax is measured?
200
The cognitive style associated with attending to details (i.e., seeing the trees not the forest) and success in school
What is field independence?
200
The writer of the first book printed in English
Who Chaucer?
300
Name of the period in which Shakespeare wrote
What is Early Modern English?
300
Theorist responsible for behaviorist theory of language acquisition
Who is BF Skinner?
300
This theorist who says that language is acquired through principles of conditioning, including association , imitation, and reinforcement
Who is BF Skinner?
300
The social-psychological motivation that is most important in second language acquisition (i.e., a learner’s desire to become part of the community or culture represented by the L2).
What is integrative motivation?
300
Spelling was standardized in this period
What is Middle English
400
The three original groups of invaders of England
Who are the Angles, Jutes and Saxons?
400
The theory of language acquisition which says that the environment is largely responsible for first language acquisition
What is the behaviorist theory of language acquisition?
400
Overgeneralization and narrowing fall into this area of language acquisition
What is the acquisition of semantics?
400
The theory of language which says children have universal grammar
What is nativism (Chomsky)?
400
The name of the language family from which the English language comes
What is Indo-European?
500
The name and date of event that first brought the French Normans to England
What is the Normal Conquest in 1066 CE?
500
The temporal order of which a child understands an utterance (Order of Mention) falls under this area of FLA.
What is the acquisition of semantics?
500
The measurement of the number of morphemes in an utterance (MLUs) falls under this area of FLA.
What is the acquisition of syntax?
500
The name of the theory that incorporates the other two main theories of language acquisition
What is the Interactionist theory of language acquisition?
500
Two languages which English to which English is closely related
What are German and/or Yiddish, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans?