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- 1. Multiple Choice
Children learn a language by imitating adults.
Behaviorists view
Cognitivist view
Constructivist view
- 2. Multiple Choice
Children can imitate sentence well due to the unaware vocabulary and structure, so language acquisition cannot be alleged as a pure imitating.
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
He came to the conclusion 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
- 4. Multiple Choice
An example of a natural language acquisition is when kids are with an explicit inherent ability able to discover the important rules of a language.
True
False
- 5. Multiple Choice
Some scholars, innatists and interactionists, think language needs to be unaltered to be acquired.
True
False
- 6. Multiple Choice
Children need to hear sentences that they can understand without knowing a lot about the language they’re trying to learn. This view can be refered to that
the language needs to be useful for a kid.
the language has to be meaningful for the child.
the language must be adaptable for toddlers.
- 7. Multiple Choice
We acquire a second language the same way we acquire our mother tongue.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
Some scholars have given fundamental importance to learner’s innate capacity for language acquisition, while others insinuated the role of the environment. What does innate mean?
incidental
intuitive
learned
acquired
- 9. Multiple Choice
Language acquirers are not usually aware of the fact that they are acquiring language but are only aware of the fact that they are using the language for communication. This can be best described as…
Knowing about
Explicit learning
Picking-up a language
All of the above
- 10. Multiple Choice
The natural environment, in which the acquisition appears, can be favorably simulated by using real life activities taught in the target language.
True
False
- 11. Multiple Choice
Teachers have to provide a comprehensible input to be able to facilitate the successful acquisition. One of the necessary conditions for the input is that it has to be beyond comprehensible level of acquirer’s competence (I + 1).
True
False
- 12. Multiple Choice
Affective Filter Hypothesis deals with affective variables that influence second language acquisition. Which of the following is not part of the variable?
motivation
self-confidence
certainty
anxiety
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