Language Development 2/7 Flashcards
How does an interpreter facilitate a student’s ability to learn the language?
By exposing the student to fluent use of language.
Kat
When do children produce their first word?
About the age of one.
Kat
What is one essential part of language development?
Interaction with others.
Kat
TRUE or FALSE
An experienced interpreter is aware of his or her influence on the development of a deaf or hard of hearing student’s language.
TRUE
Kellie
Language development in ASL ________ the development of spoken languages.
Parallels
Kellie
________ in sign language does not make learning signs easier.
Iconicity
Kellie
T/F The development of classifiers takes place quickly.
FALSE (By Brandon)
The majority of deaf and hard of hearing students are born into hearing families that may not provide them with what?
Access to a fluent language early in development. (By Brandon)
Deaf and hard of hearing students who have ASL as their first language typically learn English from where?
Reading. (By Brandon)
The interpreter reviews the student’s IEP with a professional in order to become familiar with the student’s current level of ____________.
Functioning
Misi
T/F Language sophistication influences cognitive abilities.
True
Misi
When young students make language errors, it is often difficult for them to :
A..Repeat the error
B. Model language
C. Fix their errors
C. Fix their errors.
Misi
Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing may have language skills that are delayed compared with their hearing peers. This is due to:
A. the student has problems learning the language.
B. they have problems accessing the language in their environment.
C. they need to hear the language to understand it.
B. The students have problems accessing the language in their environment, not a learning problem.
Melody
By what years of age are Deaf students learning ASL from their Deaf families are able to use verb agreement correctly much of the time?
By the time the student is 3 - 4 years old.
Melody
True or False? Students do not learn words from learning a definition.
True
Melody
Deaf and hard of hearing students who have ASL as their first language typically learn English from _________.
Reading
Nicole
The early detection of hearing loss is critical because it allows deaf and hard of hearing students to…
develop language that is more age appropriate when compared with their hearing peers.
(Nicole)
The pragmatics of interacting with peers is different than what?
The pragmatics of interacting with an adult.
Nicole
The IEP will help the interpreter understand the student’s…
a) Expressive and Receptive language skills
b) Cognitive potential
c) Maturity level
d) Educational goals
a), b), and d)
The interpreter needs to know the student’s language skills both expressively and receptively, the student’s cognitive potential, and the educational goals as outlined in the student’s IEP.
(Lauria)
Regarding Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, the language evaluation should be conducted by who?
a) The teacher - who is familiar with the benchmark standards
b) The interpreter - who is familiar with the student’s language
c) A professional - who has training specific to language
d) A proctor - who is trained to evaluate tests
c) Language evaluation should be conducted by a professional who has training specific to language and students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
(Lauria)
T/F
The ability to have a conversation about daily events means that a student can understand academic language used in the classroom.
False
The ability to have a conversation about daily events doesn’t mean that a student can understand academic language used in the classroom.
(Lauria)
How is academic language different from language used in an everyday conversation?
Academic language is generally more complex in terms of vocabulary and syntax. It provides students with fewer contexts to understand the topic. It has less turn taking with longer monologues.
(Alicia)
True or False?
Deaf and hard of hearing students are often in the process of learning language in school while they are learning new concepts. Hearing students are using their language to learn new concepts. This means that an interpreter may need to include an explanation of a concept in the interpretation in order to facilitate learning.
True.
Alicia
True or False?
It is different using language to communicate concepts that are easy, or used often, compared with using language to communicate concepts that are new, abstract, or difficult.
True.
Alicia
students learn language how?
by interacting with people around them
-Emily
adults often model what w/o expecting an immediate change from the student?
Adults with model the correct language
(so that over time the student or child with see the correct way and then adapt that)
-Emily
gesturing can be very communicative and useful, however it is not _______.
Linguistic
-Emily
Students acquire language early but _________ _________ is a later development.
Metalinguistic Development
Danielle
True/False
Learning sign language will interfere with the student’s ability to learn speech.
FALSE
Learning sign language will NOT interfere with the student’s ability to learn speech.
(Danielle)
What type of language refers to people and events that are not here and now?
Decontextualized
Danielle
True or False:
The interpreter does not need to know the student’s language skills both expressively and receptively, the student’s cognitive potential, and the educational goals as outlined in the student’s IEP.
False:
The interpreter NEEDS to know the student’s language skills both expressively and receptively, the student’s cognitive potential, and the educational goals as outlined in the student’s IEP.
By Jacki
True or False:
Language development in ASL parallels the development of spoken languages.
True
By Jacki
Students begin to produce their first words at about…
1 year of age.
By Jacki
T/F A student’s language use at home and the language use at school may differ.
TRUE
Cameron
When a student does not have age-appropriate pragmatic skills, his peers may view him as________?
Socially awkward
Cameron
T/F Interacting with other students is critical for language development.
TRUE
Cameron
Students begin to combine two words or signs into a sentence at about what age?
2 years old.
Taryn
TRUE/FALSE
Students often times won’t make mistakes while pronouncing words and producing signs when they are beginning to learn.
FALSE.
They will make mistakes.
(Taryn)
TRUE/FALSE
The pragmatics of interacting with your peers is different than the pragmatics of interacting with adults.
TRUE.
Taryn
T/F
A deaf students ability to have a conversation about daily events means that a student can understand academic language used in a classroom
False. Conversation is more turn taking and can repair misunderstandings, academic is more complex in terms and vocabulary and syntax
Amanda
T/F
Gesturing can be very communicative and useful
True.
However, gesturing is not linguistic
Amanda
Language development in ASL parallels what?
Development of spoken languages
Amanda
True or False:
Conversations generally have more turn-taking about topics that reflect a shared experience.
True.
-Sheena Rice
An _______ may need to include an explanation of a concept in the interpretation in order to facilitate learning.
Interpreter.
-Sheena Rice
True or False:
Development of classifiers occur in a short period of time for students at 8 or 9 years of age.
False:
The development of classifiers occurs over a long period of time and students still make numerous errors around 8 or 9 years of age.
-Sheena Rice
What is integral to a student’s language development?
A) interaction with those around them
B) being taught the definitions of difficult vocabulary
C) exposure to fluent language
D) use of classifiers
A and C
- Catherine
Students learn best when a teacher understands what they _____ and _______________.
A students learns best when a teacher understands what the student knows and does not know.
- Catherine
T/F
A student with a cochlear implant may be receiving information from the teacher’s spoken language as well as the interpretation.
True.
- Catherine
T/F
Language sophistication influences cognitive abilities.
True
Jamie
Why might Deaf or Hard of Hearing students have language skills that are delayed compared to their hearing peers?
Because they have problems accessing language in their environment.
Jamie
True/False
Deaf and Hard of Hearing students are often in the process of learning language in school while they are learning new concepts?
True
Jamie
