General Terms
What is the meaning of Linguistics?
It is the formal study of a language.
What was the first period of the History of English?
The Old English.
Name three stages of L1 Acquisition.
1. BABBLING, ONE -WORD, TWO- WORDS STAGE, EARLY MULTIWORD STAGE, LATER MULTIWORD.
Name three stages of L2 Acquisition.
What is the name of the theory of Steven Krashen related to INPUT?
Comprehensible Input Theory.
What does Applied Linguistics mean?
entails using what we know about language, about how it is used, and about how it is learned in order to solve some problem in the real world.
What was the Age that started before The Old ENglish period?
The Iron Age?
Explain the Babbling stage.
Another way to call the "Pre-Production" stage?
The Silent Period.
Explain the Theory of Interaction.
It is a theory of second-language acquisition which states that the development of language proficiency is promoted by face-to-face interaction and communication
Name three branches of Linguistics?
Phonetics, phonology, morphology, sintax, semantics and pragmatics.
What year does The Middle English start?
It started in 1066.
Explain EARLY MULTIWORD stage?
THE CHILD CREATES TELEGRAPHIC, CONCISE, SENTENCE STRUCTURES USING MORPHEMES THAT DON'T CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE WORD, BUT ALTER IT TO FIT THE SENTENCE. Zapato (ico)
At what age does the "Early production" start and finish?
6 months to One year.
What are the Two Input skills in the learning process?
Listening and reading
How can you define the word "interdisciplinay"?
Interdisciplinary studies involve two or more academic disciplines which are considered distinct.
Who imposed the Norman language as the official language in the Middle English period?
William the Conqueror.
Explain the LATER MULTIWORD stage?
THE CHILD USES FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES (MORPHEMES THAT CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE WORDS. Legal (I)
What questions can an Intermediate Fluency speaker make?
• What would happen if. . . ?
• Why do you think. . . ?
What are the Two Output skills in the learning process?
Speaking and Writing
Name two interdisciplinary branches of Linguistics.
Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics,Ethnolinguistics or Anthropological Linguistics, Neurolinguistics.
Name two important people in the Early Modern English period.
Elizabeth the Queen and William Shakespeare.
Explain the TWO WORDS stage.
Child forms mini sentences with plains semantic relations.
5–7 years
What are the four domains of English language development?
Listening, speaking, reading and writing.