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WEST-E ELL 51 Language Learning and Acquisition Section Exam Verified 2024
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WEST-E ELL 51 Language Learning andAcquisition Section Exam Verified 2024
According to behaviorists, how are children encouraged to sting together groups of
syllables to form words?
A) by being provided with rewards and incentives for speech.
B) by being continuously corrected in their attempts at speech.
C) by being continuously spoken to by the adults around them.
D) by being provided with previously learned patterns of sounds. - ANSWER-A) by
being provided with rewards and incentives for speech.
Acents - ANSWER-Impact learning and pronunciation of English. Often speakers will
substitute the sounds of their first language for ones that they think are the same in
English
Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis - ANSWER-distinction between acquiring language
and learning a language, acquisition is the subconscious process of internalizing
linguistic competence and performance
Advanced Fluency Stage - ANSWER-Students have achieved cognitive language
proficiency in their learned language. They demonstrate near native ability and use
complex, multiphrase in multiclause sentences to convey their ideas
Affective Filter Hypothesis - ANSWER-addresses the emotional risks inherent in
learning a new language
Anja have been in Mr. Becht's ESOL class for the past two years and has shown little
interest in learning English. She does not participate in group activities and rarely has
her assignments completed when she gets to class. Despite many attempts for
rewarding Anja for participating and turning in her work, Ms. Becht has made little
progress with her. What strategy could Ms. Becht try to motivate Anja?
A) allow Anja to create an assignment for herself to complete
B) have Anja work in a small group in order to encourage her to speak
C) provide Anja with the list of simple vocabulary words to memorize and recite
D) design a contract in which Anja can earn homework passes for turning in her work -
ANSWER-A) allow Anja to create an assignment for herself to complete
Argumentative - ANSWER-students argue a position on something
Babbling Stage - ANSWER-beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech
development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated
to the household language (changes in pitch, volume, and friction)
, Chomsky Universal Grammar Theory - ANSWER-Humans have an inherent capacity to
acquire, create, and comprehend language despite differences in grammar and
composition across languages.
Children are born with the innate ability to understand the human voice and to
distinguish between different parts of the language. They have the capacity to
understand the difference in phonemes, the smallest elements of sound that allow for
distinguishing between words.
Code-Switching - ANSWER-Mixing words from their first language with the language
they are learning when they have forgotten a term or do not know how to express
themselves in the second language.
Cognates - ANSWER-visually similar words
Comprehensible Input - ANSWER-language that is just slightly above the student's
current grasp; new information that students are able to understand because it is
introduced alongside information they already know
Concrete Stage - ANSWER-in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that
enable them to think logically about concrete events
Connectionism - ANSWER-holds that language comprehension and production abilities
develop through continual engagement with language
d during which stage of literacy development are students likely to discuss what they
are reading with others in order to make sense of a text?
A) Emergent
B) Early
C) Transitional
D) Fluency - ANSWER-B) Early
Descriptive - ANSWER-describing things so clearly that readers are able to form
pictures in their minds of what is being written.
During which stage of first-language acquisition do children first begin using words with
intentional meaning?
A) babbling stage
B) one-word stage
C) two-word stage
D) multiword stage - ANSWER-B) one-word stage
early multiword stage (telegraphic stage) - ANSWER-children are mostly understood by
their parents and caregivers. Begin using elements of grammar.
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