Child Lang Final

Question 1

When responding to children’s answers during questioning, SLPs should?

Answer 1

Encourage additional clarification through follow-up questions

Question 2

When working with preschoolers, SLPs should?

Answer 2

Establish and maintain eye contact

Question 3

Pre-phonemic spelling is characterized by

Answer 3

Letters used that have no relationship to the phoneme

Question 4

A diagraph is?

Answer 4

Two letters representing one sound

Question 5

Kindergartners’ expressive vocabulary typically has

Answer 5

1,500 words or more

Question 6

Ostensive naming occurs when vocabulary is learned through

Answer 6

Direct naming

Question 7

Evidence of kindergartners’ developing semantic knowledge can be seen in their?

Answer 7

Use of similes and metaphors

Question 8

Which of the following characterizes kindergartners’ syntactic knowledge?

Answer 8

They can comprehend others’ speech that is more syntactically complex than the speech they produce

Question 9

Which of the following pronouns are beginning to be acquired by kindergartners?

Answer 9

Myself, himself, themselves

Question 10

Which of the following represents an inflectional morpheme?

Answer 10

Past verb tense “-ed”

Question 11

Increasing morphemic knowledge of comparatives and superlatives is evident in which of the following sentences?

Answer 11

We had more fun at the park today

Question 12

Kindergartners’ developing pragmatic knowledge is evident in their?

Answer 12

Competency in beginning to consider their listener’s perspective

Question 13

Which of the following is an example of an indirect request?

Answer 13

I can hear too many people talking

Question 14

Kindergartners’ developing pragmatic knowledge of written language is shown by their?

Answer 14

Competencies in dictating stories or narratives

Question 15

Which of the following is not a key behavior related to kindergartners’ listening and speaking competencies?

Answer 15

Associating individual letters with specific sounds

Question 16

Which of the following is not a key behavior related to kindergartners’ phonological awareness?

Answer 16

Understanding that print communicates meaning

Question 17

In a developmentally appropriate kindergarten?

Answer 17

Instructional activities will reflect the developmental levels of the children

Question 18

By age 8, most children?

Answer 18

Have complete phonemic production

Question 19

20. Children who begin the primary years with a large vocabulary will?

Answer 19

Continue to experience greater vocabulary growth

Question 20

21. When a primary-age boy describes his baseball game where he “stole third base”, which part of semantic knowledge is he developing?

Answer 20

• Multiple word meanings

Question 21

22. Which of the following does not represent primary children’s growth in the area of syntax?

Answer 21

• Clear articulation of all of the phonemes in English

Question 22

23. Which of the following experiences is related to developing syntactic knowledge among primary-age students?

Answer 22

• Exposure to a variety of genre such as poetry, nonfiction, and narrative stories

Question 23

24. Which of the following involves a derivational morpheme?

Answer 23

• Slow-slowly

Question 24

25. Which of the following is not an example of developing morphemic knowledge of primary children?

Answer 24

• More complex grammar in their written stories

Question 25

26. Which of the following is an example of primary children’s developing pragmatic knowledge?

Answer 25

- Use of different speaking styles in different settings

Question 26

27. Which of the following primary school characteristics has been connected to increasing pragmatic knowledge development?

Answer 26

- A variety of genre and text types in the classroom library

Question 27

28. Which of the following is a goal for pragmatic language knowledge development for primary students?

Answer 27

- Increase awareness and effectiveness in using language styles and academic English

Question 28

ask-centered implementation of a curriculum focuses on?

Answer 28

- The established sequence and scope of activities

Question 29

30. SLPs who understand the critical role of talk in the process of learning create classroom environments where?

Answer 29

- There are numerous opportunities for children to engage in focused conversations and to express their understandings

Question 30

31. Which of the following is characteristic of a “higher-level” question?

Answer 30

- The question requires making an inference

Question 31

32. Primary teachers can encourage children to develop listening skills by?

Answer 31

- Providing contingent feedback to children’s oral responses

Question 32

33. Screening children for language delays as well as other developmental delays is?

Answer 32

- Is required through the Child Find process

Question 33

34. Referring a child for follow up diagnostic testing means that the?

Answer 33

- SLPs referral is based on screening and observations

Question 34

35. After a child’s diagnostic testing is completed, the SLP?

Answer 34

- Should compare the results of the testing to informal measures and observations