SCHOOL LANGUAGE DISORDERS CHAPTER 10 QUIZ

What two areas is grammar composed of?

syntax and grammatical morphology

What does grammatical morphology consist of?

the words and word parts that specify syntactic relations between content words like auxiliaries, prepositions, conjunctions, and inflections

Select all 4 reasons why developmental progressions for grammar are not a good way to measure progress in school-aged children.

they vary syntactically more within an age group than between adjacent age groups

Studies have shown that school-aged children with language impairments have ______.

an overall immaturity in grammatical structure and a higher frequency of grammatical errors

Children with language impairments may continue to write the way that they speak rather than develop a more literate form, so it's important to target written language when providing grammar intervention.

True

Prioritizing phrasal and clausal constituents in grammar intervention should be a main focus to increase their ability to convey meaning in oral and written language. It is not as beneficial to just focus on their morpheme errors.

True

What is best description of the continuum of intrusiveness (aka naturalness)?

a continuum where one end is less intrusive activities that provide authentic opportunities for hearing and using language forms, and the other end is intrusive discrete skills that focuses on specific grammatical forms separate from their usage

facilitates grammar acquisition without making the child consciously aware of the target form with the goal of them to discover the rule or pattern by hearing examples of the correct target form.

Implicit strategies

facilitates grammar acquisition by making the child consciously aware of the pattern underlying the target form by providing them with information about the rule or pattern

Explicit strategies

Which are implicit therapy strategies?

focused stimulation

Which are explicit therapy strategies?

Explicit instruction with metalinguistic comments

What are mini-lessons in grammar intervention?

brief massed practice opportunities for production of grammatical forms prior to an activity that the target forms are embedded in

What two phrases are involved in observational modeling?

listening and production phase

In the revising and editing phase of writing, grammar intervention should focus on correcting grammatical mistakes rather than making choices to convey meaning.

False