Around what age does a child typically start to use two- to three-word sentences to talk about and ask for things?
a. 2 to 3 years
b. 7 months to 1 year
c. 3 to 4 years
d. 1 to 2 years
[Ques. 2] Which model of language development suggests that all children are born with a universal learning mechanism called a language acquisition device (LAD)?
a. Semantic-cognitive model
b. Psycholinguistic model
c. Behavioral model
d. Pragmatic model
[Ques. 3] What are the five components of oral language?
a. Expressive language, receptive language, semantics, phonology, and syntax
b. Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
c. Speaking, listening, shared code, shared intent, and syntax
d. Phonology, syntax, speaking, listening, and pragmatics
[Ques. 4] Which of the following is NOT a common reason why oral language is not addressed directly in the classroom?
a. Most educators believe that language difficulties are unlikely to hinder a
child's lifelong success.
b. Oral language skills may be difficult to break into subskills that can be taught
effectively.
c. It may be difficult to determine language proficiency in shy/withdrawn
children.
d. Most schools emphasize academic skills and may not consider oral language
part of the academic curriculum.
[Ques. 5] Scaffolding involves which of the following?
a. Outlining the process students are to follow for their own knowledge
construction.
b. Modeling procedures for students.
c. Providing students with specific questions to answer.
d. All of these answers are correct.
[Ques. 6] The IT FITS and LINCS strategies are recommended to help students:
a. remember vocabulary.
b. figure out basic math problems.
c. remember arithmetic functions.
d. figure out the meaning of unknown words.
[Ques. 7] Which of these is a constructivist principle?
a. The end goal is transmission of knowledge.
b. Form follows function in learning.
c. Errors are distractions from learning.
d. Learning occurs best when it goes from part to whole to part.
[Ques. 8] A person's beliefs about what he or she is capable of doing is called:
a. self-regulation.
b. self-control.
c. self-efficacy.
d. self-reflection.
[Ques. 9] ______ is a set of procedures or series of steps for successfully completing a task.
a. Observational learning
b. A strategy
c. Metacognition
d. An executive function
[Ques. 10] Maria's phone number is 555-1984 . That should be easy to remember because 555 is my grandmother's address, and 1984 is the year my brother was born. This statement is an example of which of the following?
a. Maintenance rehearsal
b. Elaborative rehearsal
c. Procedural knowledge
d. Working memory
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