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- 1. Multiple Choice
By what age do most babies only recognize (and babble in) the sounds of their speech community?
6-8 months
8-10 months
10-12 months
- 2. Multiple Choice
_______ is what happens when a child uses her analytic system to apply a rule which results in non-target-like language use.
Grammar Translation
Behaviorism
Overgeneralization
- 3. Multiple Choice
According to Chomsky, why must humans have a "Language Acquisition Device"?
Because ALL children learn their L1 completely at about the same speed.
Because children know things about their language that nobody taught them.
Because "motherese" is not a good, grammatical model.
All of the above.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of these is probably the most common language-teaching method?
The Silent Way
The Audiolingual Method
Total Physical Response
Grammar Translation
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of these does Japanese not have?
Adjectives
Prepositions
Postpositions
Adverbs
- 6. Multiple Choice
Different L1s (first languages) will affect the __________ of an L2 (second language).
interlanguage
affective filter
order of acquisition
speed of acquisition
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of these is (generally) TRUE about adult L2 learners?
They don't learn from corrective feedback.
They don't require interaction in order to learn language.
They have well-developed metacognitive strategies.
They don't mind being corrected.
- 8. Multiple Choice
In general, children learn 2nd languages faster than adults.
True
False
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