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1st Language: Focus on Child
1st Language: Focus on Environment
1st: Language: Focus on Language
2nd Language: Krashen's Theory
2nd Language: Schumann's Model
100
True or False: infants exposed to sign language go through the same stages as babies exposed to oral language.
What is true?
100
According to sociologists and anthropologists, language always occurs in this.
What is a social context?
100
The basic structures of all human languages.
What is Universal Grammar?
100
This hypothesis helps explain the different functions that acquisition and learning play.
What is monitor hypothesis?
100
This sociolinguist researcher claims that acquiring a new language is part of a general process of cuulturation.
Who is Schumann?
200
Children use nouns to represent objects and verbs to represent actions.
What is the first stage of first language development.
200
True or False: Vocabulary is built into our brains, we just have to unlock it.
What is False
200
This hypothesis explains the role of factors in the process of language acquisition.
What is affective filter hypothesis?
200
This occurs when a newcomer experiences more difficulty in learning a new language, which creates psychological distance.
What is culture shock?
300
Children's ability to learn this is increased.
What is vocabulary?
300
Studies of child language development focus on this interaction.
What is between mothers, and other caregivers, and children?
300
A specialized are of the brain designed for language
What is language acquisition device
300
This hypothesis helps explain that some parts of language are developed before others.
What is natural order hypothesis?
300
Schumann's acculturation theory complements this previously studies theory.
What is Krashen's monitor model?
400
Children develop syntax and begin using two-word utterances.
What is the second stage of first language development.
400
the ability to use the language appropriate to a particular social context
What is communicative competence
400
This hypothesis differentiates between two types of learning.
What is Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis
400
Schumann focuses his study on this.
What is sociocultural factors that act on the language learner?
500
These researchers focus on how a child learns language
Who are developmental psychologists?
500
This researcher studied the difference in the language development of children in two different communities.
Who is Heath?
500
This linguist suggests that humans are predisposed to learn languages.
Who is Chomsky
500
This explains that people acquire language in one way -- when they receive oral or written messages they understand.
What is input hypothesis.
500
These are the two factors that can be used to predict the degree of language acquisition.
What is social distance and psychological distance?