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Which theory of language development suggests that children learn appropriate sounds and words in reaction to their parents' reinforcement? |
| | A) | behaviorist |
| | B) | innatist |
| | C) | cognitive |
| | D) | contextual |
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Regardless of culture, children begin to learn language around the same time all over the world. At about what age is this? |
| | A) | between 6 and 8 months |
| | B) | between 8 and 28 months |
| | C) | between 2 and 4 years |
| | D) | between 5 and 7 years |
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Which theorist hypothesized that children are born with a language acquisition device? |
| | A) | Chomsky |
| | B) | Piaget |
| | C) | Skinner |
| | D) | Vygotsky |
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According to which theorist is symbolic thought a precondition for language acquisition? |
| | A) | Chomsky |
| | B) | Piaget |
| | C) | Skinner |
| | D) | Vygotsky |
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Piaget has been criticized for underestimating what factor in language development? |
| | A) | biology |
| | B) | intelligence |
| | C) | social interaction |
| | D) | biology and intelligence |
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According to which theorist do thought and language originate independently, but later merge? |
| | A) | Chomsky |
| | B) | Piaget |
| | C) | Skinner |
| | D) | Vygotsky |
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Which theorist places the most importance on social interaction in the development of language? |
| | A) | Chomsky |
| | B) | Piaget |
| | C) | Skinner |
| | D) | Vygotsky |
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According to which theory of language development is language constructed within a particular sociocultural context, depending on cognitive and environmental factors? |
| | A) | behaviorist |
| | B) | innatist |
| | C) | cognitive |
| | D) | contextual |
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Children's first words most commonly refer to what? |
| | A) | concrete objects |
| | B) | abstract ideas |
| | C) | time |
| | D) | colors |
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The recognition that children who pretend they are reading or writing understand a great deal about literacy is characteristic of what approach to literacy? |
| | A) | emergent literacy |
| | B) | reading readiness |
| | C) | phonetic |
| | D) | phonemic awareness |
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Brenda's mother speaks French and German. Her father speaks English and French. Brenda speaks all three. However, she often mixes the languages together as she speaks. What phenomenon is Brenda exhibiting? |
| | A) | discrimination |
| | B) | overgeneralization |
| | C) | mixed speech |
| | D) | successive bilingualism |
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English is Greg's native language. In fifth grade, his family moves to another country, where Spanish is spoken. He learns Spanish, becoming fluent. What phenomenon is Greg exhibiting? |
| | A) | discrimination |
| | B) | simultaneous bilingualism |
| | C) | mixed speech |
| | D) | successive bilingualism |
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The literacy approach that emphasized a set of skills children needed to master before beginning formal reading instruction is known as what? |
| | A) | emergent literacy |
| | B) | reading readiness |
| | C) | writing readiness |
| | D) | whole language |
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Which of the following does NOT play a significant role in the child's learning of language? |
| | A) | imitation of adult speech |
| | B) | learning rules for sound combinations |
| | C) | learning rules for sentence structure |
| | D) | learning rules for interaction patterns |
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Which of the following has research shown would NOT be beneficial to a child's second language acquisition? |
| | A) | youth -- the younger the child, the easier for him to learn a second language |
| | B) | mastery of grammar of the child's first language |
| | C) | continued development of the child's first language |
| | D) | being surrounded by native speakers of the second language |
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Metalinguistic awareness is ____________________. |
| | A) | the ability to think and talk about language |
| | B) | the ability to connect the distinctive sounds in words to letters |
| | C) | understanding of the mapping principles between sounds and meaning |
| | D) | the ability to recognize writing from other visual marks. |
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Which of the following would NOT help create phonemic awareness during preschool? |
| | A) | re-reading the same book over and over again |
| | B) | using songs, finger plays, and stories with rhyming words |
| | C) | isolating the beginning sound of words by asking children to say the sounds they hear |
| | D) | showing children how print is read on a page |
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Which of the following is NOT true about comprehension? |
| | A) | Comprehensive depends only on the reader's decoding knowledge and skills. |
| | B) | Comprehension is an active process in which the reader works to construct a meaningful message from the text. |
| | C) | Comprehension depends on the reader's ability to use syntactic, semantic and pragmatic information to understand the text. |
| | D) | Comprehension is gained through prior knowledge of a subject, and attitudes or feelings towards characters. |
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Invented spelling |
| | A) | increases children's fluency |
| | B) | interferes with reading development and the development of conventional spelling |
| | C) | should be treated as erroneous spelling to be corrected with beginning readers |
| | D) | should not be supported by parents |
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The teaching method in which at least two languages are used in basic subject areas is: |
| | A) | ESL |
| | B) | bilingual education |
| | C) | structured immersion |
| | D) | submersion |
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