SOUTHERN PENINSULA COLLEGE

Gil Sanchez, Labason, Zamboanga del Norte

ENG 24 (Principles and Theories of Language Acquisition )
SEMI-FINAL EXAMINATION

Name: ________________________Yr. & Course: ____________Date:___________ Score: ___________

I- Identification: Identify the following statements. Write only the answer on the space provided.
2 points each
__________________1. The term______ refers to the fact these words can be used in conjunction with
almost any other word.
__________________2. A simple non-sense word test.
__________________3. It refers to one’s underlying knowledge of a system, event, or fact.
__________________4. It is overly observable and concrete manifestation or realization of competene.
__________________5. He likened competence to an “idealized” speaker-hearer.

II- True or False. Write DEAL if the statement is true and NO DEAL if the statement is false.
Write the answer on the space provided before each number. 2 points each

____________1. English speaking children as young as four years of age applied rules
____________2. If a child saw one one “wug” he could not easily talk about two “wugs”
____________3. Nativist studies of child language acquisition were free to construct hyphotheticak
grammars of child language
____________4. Linguists did not start to examine child language from early one-and twoword forms of
“telegraphic” to the complex language of five-to-ten year olds.
____________5. The early grammar of child language were referred to as pivot grammars.
____________6. It was not commonly observed that the chikd’s first two-word utterances seemed to
manifest two separate word classes, and not simply two words thrown together at random.
____________7. Linguists noted that the words on the left-hand side seemed to belong to a class that words
on the right-hand side
____________8. Researchers was not able to see that language was just one manifestation of the cognitive
and affective ability to deal with the word.
____________9. In the utterance “mommy sock”, which nativists would not be describe as a sentence.
____________10. “Mommy sock” could not mean a number of different things to a child.

III- Directions: Choose the best answer from the box below and write it on the space provided before
the number. 2 points each
Jean Berko Dan Slobin
Stubbs (1996)
Brown and Bellugi
Luis Bloom

______________1.demonstrated that children learn language not as a series of separate discrete items, but
as an integrated system.
______________2.he criticized the pivot grammar.
______________3. Give us a rather delightful example of the difficulty of attempting to extract underlying
grammatical knowledge from children.
______________4. Reminded us of the position of British linguists Firth and Halliday
______________5. Demonstrated that in all languages, semantic learning depends on cognitive
development.

III- Enumeration: Enumerate what is being asked. 2 points each

1- 10 Issues in First Language Acquisition
11-13 Bloom found at least three possible underlying relations
14- 16 Forms of Language
17-18 Two Major Views to language development
19-20 Foreign Language Teaching Materials

“Success usually comes to those who are busy to be looking for it”.
Prepared by: Ma’am Blanche