Chapter 10 - Athabasca Quizz Flashcards
A 17-year-old camp counselor is trying to teach a new game to 5- and 6-year-olds. He begins by asking: “O.K., do any of you know some games where you look for things that are hidden?” His strategy would be called
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trying to establish common ground.
emphasizing prosody.
trying to solve the linearization problem.
a shallow level of processing.
trying to establish common ground.
Suppose that you have a summer job in which you work with both monolingual and bilingual children, although the two groups are otherwise similar. You would expect to find that
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the monolingual children would typically be better at following directions.
the bilingual children would learn the pragmatics of only one language; so if English is their second language, they would likely make pragmatic errors.
the bilingual children would usually be better at following complex instructions.
the bilingual children would generally perform better at all language tasks except for tasks requiring metalinguistic expertise.
the bilingual children would usually be better at following complex instructions.
Psychologists have conducted more research on language comprehension than on language production. Which of the following students provides the best explanation for this discrepancy?
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Tina: “Psychologists find language comprehension to be more interesting from the perspective of social interactions.”
Nayan: “Researchers find it easier to conduct research on language comprehension because they can easily vary the material that participants hear or see.”
Garth: “Researchers in the discipline of speech therapy have already conducted the relevant research on language production.”
Louise: “Language production was the major topic of research just after the cognitive approach became popular; in the last decade, language comprehension has become the major topic of research.”
Nayan: “Researchers find it easier to conduct research on language comprehension because they can easily vary the material that participants hear or see.”
Which of the following is not a phase in the writing process?
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sentence generation.
revising.
word generation.
planning.
word generation.
Chapter 10 described a study in which participants listened to definitions of concrete nouns, and they were asked to produce the correct noun. The participants were more likely to say the correct noun if
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their hand movements were restricted.
their hand movements were unrestricted.
they were told to pronounce the noun as quickly as possible.
they were told to pronounce the noun as slowly as possible.
their hand movements were unrestricted.
An English professor has just asked the students in his class to revise their term papers. He is likely to find that
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the students will carefully evaluate whether their paper accomplishes their goals for the assignment.
students will actually spend about 30% of their total writing time on revising.
most students will examine only one sentence at a time, checking spelling and grammar.
most students will be very aware of the major problems in their paper.
most students will examine only one sentence at a time, checking spelling and grammar.
Anne is 20 years old, and she has spoken English all her life. She took Spanish courses in both high school and college. She enrolls in a study-abroad program in Buenos Aires, and becomes fluent in Spanish before returning to the United States. Anne’s situation is an example of
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sequential bilingualism.
simultaneous bilingualism.
metalinguistics.
multilingualism.
sequential bilingualism.
A professor looks out at her class and notices that Jackie is falling asleep. She says loudly: “Wouldn’t you be more comfortable in your own bed, Jackie?” The professor is using a kind of directive known as
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a metalinguistic message.
establishing common ground.
the communication of gist.
an indirect request.
an indirect request.
If you give a friend a fairly lengthy description about how you studied for your last exam, you are producing
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prosody.
a directive.
pragmatics.
discourse.
discourse
