the Development of Language
By what age do children have a vocabulary of thousands of words?
4 years old.
What age does a child like to hear the same story repeated over and over again?
2-3 years old.
(True or false) Children who learn two languages process both of these languages differently than a person who learn only one language. They even use different part of their brains.
False.
By what age do most children have knowledge of grammar and rules for basic conversations?
4 years old.
What age do children ask who and why questions?
Between 4-5 years old.
What is syntax?
Word order
What is expressive vocabulary?
All different words a person uses in speaking and writing.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
How children understand language, how it works and having knowledge about language.
(True or false) There are absolutely no benefits to being bilingual. It makes learning and cognitive abilities harder. It makes academic work harder for children.
False.
What is receptive vocabulary?
The words a person can understand in spoken or written words.
What age do children know their last name, name of their address and so on?
Between 3-4 years old.
What is bilingualism correlated with?
Cognitive abilites.
When a child says "our car is broken", but another child insists that its "our car is broked". This is a example of..
Over-regularizing
At what age do children begin to enjoy songs and books/stories because of their sounds?
5 years old.
Why do children who are bilingual tend to mix up the two languages they know?
It is not that they are confused but because their parents do that as well.