Week 5 Quiz
CHFD311
Quiz 5
Question 1 of 30
1.0 Points
Which one of the following statements is consistent with B. F. Skinner’s view of language development?
A.“Children initially use language primarily in their interactions with other people, but increasingly they also use it to help them think more effectively.”
B.“From a very early age, children are motivated to learn how to speak, because speech enables them to interact with other people and, ultimately, to get what they want.”
C.“Although children can learn the specific vocabulary and syntax of their native language only by hearing the people around them speak it, they seem to have some built-in knowledge of the form that any language should take.”
D.“To foster children’s language development, parents and other adults praise them first for making speechlike sounds (‘Da-da’), later for saying recognizable words (‘More!’), and still later for forming understandable sentences (‘Can I have candy?’).”
Answer Key: D
Question 2 of 30
1.0 Points
Which one of the following statements most accurately describes what developmental theorists mean when they talk about a language acquisition device?
A.A built-in mechanism that makes language learning especially easy for human beings
B.A culture-specific symbolic system that encompasses all the syntactic rules of a particular language
C.A particular area of the human cortex that seems to “hold” all of the words that a child learns
D.A handheld computer that enables people who speak very different languages to communicate easily with one another
Answer Key: A
Question 3 of 30
1.0 Points
Which one of the following is typically not used with English language learners?
A.Submersion
B.Structured English immersion programs
C.Foreign language instruction
D.Bilingual education
Answer Key: C
Question 4 of 30
1.0 Points
Tina is an English language learner. She is learning in a regular third grade classroom. Her teacher and her classmates all
Quiz 5
Question 1 of 30
1.0 Points
Which one of the following statements is consistent with B. F. Skinner’s view of language development?
A.“Children initially use language primarily in their interactions with other people, but increasingly they also use it to help them think more effectively.”
B.“From a very early age, children are motivated to learn how to speak, because speech enables them to interact with other people and, ultimately, to get what they want.”
C.“Although children can learn the specific vocabulary and syntax of their native language only by hearing the people around them speak it, they seem to have some built-in knowledge of the form that any language should take.”
D.“To foster children’s language development, parents and other adults praise them first for making speechlike sounds (‘Da-da’), later for saying recognizable words (‘More!’), and still later for forming understandable sentences (‘Can I have candy?’).”
Answer Key: D
Question 2 of 30
1.0 Points
Which one of the following statements most accurately describes what developmental theorists mean when they talk about a language acquisition device?
A.A built-in mechanism that makes language learning especially easy for human beings
B.A culture-specific symbolic system that encompasses all the syntactic rules of a particular language
C.A particular area of the human cortex that seems to “hold” all of the words that a child learns
D.A handheld computer that enables people who speak very different languages to communicate easily with one another
Answer Key: A
Question 3 of 30
1.0 Points
Which one of the following is typically not used with English language learners?
A.Submersion
B.Structured English immersion programs
C.Foreign language instruction
D.Bilingual education
Answer Key: C
Question 4 of 30
1.0 Points
Tina is an English language learner. She is learning in a regular third grade classroom. Her teacher and her classmates all