Language Acquisition

Knowing a language means...

• knowing the sound system

• knowing words in the language

• knowing sentence and non-sentences

• able to be creative in the language

Children learn a language by imitating adults.

• Behaviorists view

• Cognitivist view

• Constructivist view

This person concluded that children’s minds are not blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.

• Jerome Bruner

• Noam Chomsky

• Stephen Krashen

• Jeremy Harmer

We acquire a second language the same way we acquire our mother tongue.

• True

• False

Children can imitate sentence well due to the unaware vocabulary and structure, so language acquisition cannot be alleged as a pure imitating.

• True

• False

What is an example of babbling?

• babababa

• It's tea time!

• crying sounds

• mmm

What is this baby doing?

• talking

• babbling

• cooing

• crying

What style of speech this adult is using?

• Babying

• Babbling

• Parentese

• Singing

What order do babies acquire language in?

• cooing, babbling, sentences, words, phrases

• cooing, babbling, words, phrases, sentences

• sentences, words, phrases, cooing, babbling

• cooing, phrases, words, babbling, sentences

What is the name for a young child, ages 1-3?

• bouncer

• infant

• smol

• toddler