Unit 1

Question 1

The stages of language development in order of age are: Babbling, one-word speech, two-word
speech, telegraphic speech, post-telegraphic speech, and formal grammar.

Answer 1

Language Development Theories and Milestones

Question 2

suggested that learning a language is like learning any new skill.

Answer 2

BF Skinner

Question 3

is the conventionalization system of a language, often wrongly distilled into a single word,
“rules.”

Answer 3

Grammar

Question 4

The word _______suggests a language should have a set of rules first, then people can speak it.

Answer 4

“rules”

Question 5

____________ is a slow process that starts during early childhood, allowing children to
grasp the spoken word and communicate.

Answer 5

Language development

Question 6

Language Scratches the Communicative Itch

Picking up and using a language is something, inventing it from scratch is a whole another thing.

Answer 6

Daniel Everett’s Theory

Question 7

Universal Grammar

Evertt’s work suggests that a language is a social tool that humans developed to communicate and
share knowledge to solve problems.

Answer 7

Chomsky’s Nativist Linguistic Theory

Question 8

thinks language is innate

Answer 8

Noam Chomsky

Question 9

A child comes to the world with the prerequisites for language learning. Namely, a built-in tool
Chomsky calls the _________.

Answer 9

Language Acquisition Device (LAD).

Question 10

The innatist, or nativist theory, attributes the emergence of language as a neural mutation that
occurred way back in a single individual.

Answer 10

B.F. Skinner Behaviorist Theory

Question 11

The basic notion of this theory is that language has a social origin.

Answer 11

Vygotsky’s Social Interactionist Theory

Question 12

language is not only due to genetic predisposition or imitation.

Piaget’s constructivist theory argues that language is constructed by following cognitive development.

Answer 12

Piaget’s Constructivist Theory

Question 13

introduced the Maturation Theory of Child Development
in 1925.

Answer 13

Dr. Arnold Gesell

Question 14

focuses on how genetics influences development and other behavior.

Answer 14

Maturation Theory of Language Development

Question 15

five stages of reading development as proposed by ____________

Answer 15

Maryanne Wolf (2008)

Question 16

By the end of this stage, the child “pretends” to read, can - over time - retell a story when looking at pages of book previously read to him/her, can names letters of alphabet;

Answer 16

Stage 1- The Emergent Pre-reader (typically between 6 months to 6 years old)

Question 17

In this stage, the child is learning the relationships between letters and sounds and between printed and spoken words.

Answer 17

Stage 2: The Novice Reader (typically between 6 to 7 years old) (back to top)

Question 18

In this stage, the child is reading simple, familiar stories and selections with increasing fluency

Answer 18

Stage 3: The Decoding Reader (typically between 7 - 9 years old)

Question 19

By this stage, reading is used to learn new ideas in order to gain new knowledge, to experience new feelings, to learn new attitudes, and to explore issues from one or more perspectives.

Answer 19

Stage 4: The Fluent, Comprehending Reader (typically between 9 - 15 years old)

Question 20

By this stage, the learner is reading widely from a broad range of complex materials, both expository
and narrative, with a variety of viewpoints.

Answer 20

Stage 5: The Expert Reader (typically from 16 years and older)