The learners who use the monitor all the time are ___.
Over- users
TRUE or FALSE: The child is DISTURBED by the language he does not understand.
False
Chomsky proposed that each of us has a LAD, what he sometimes called a ___.
Little black box
This strategy is used in a speech wherein parents speak in a higher pitch, stress important words, and talk more slowly to their infants.
Infant- directed speech
The language the child is exposed to in the environment is full of confusing information and does not provide all the information which the child needs.
Poverty of Stimulus
According to him children have an innate knowledge of the basic grammatical structures that is the basis to all languages.
Noam Chomsky
Language is acquired in a predictable order by all learners.
Natural order hypothesis
It can be employed to measure a child’s syntactic development.
MLU
TRUE or FALSE: Much of THE LANGUAGE IS SIMPLIFIED to the level of understanding of the child.
True
According to Krashen’s hypothesis, what are the two independent ways to develop our linguistic skills?
Acquisition and learning
It is a type of collaborative learning wherein the learning is local and contextualized.
Microgenesis
TRUE or FALSE: The child adds words to his speaking vocabulary more easily IF HE ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEM.
True
He is an expert in the field of linguistics specialization in theories of language acquisition and development.
Stephen Krashen
Learners who use the monitor appropriately are considered ___.
Optimal users
A child is estimated to know ___ words at the age of 18 months.
100
The learner’s ____ predicts how well he will perform on grammar-type tests that provide the right conditions for the operation of the monitor.
Aptitude
It is defined in terms of socio - cultural settings in which collaborative interactions , inter subjectivity , and assisted performance occur.
Activity
What is the other term for Input hypothesis?
Comprehension hypothesis
TRUE or FALSE: The child IMMEDIATELY USES the language, and his SUCCESS IN COMMUNICATION BUILDS CONFIDENCE.
True
It is one way children learn what a particular word means. When they hear a word for the first time, kids can often figure out what it means.
Fast mapping
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