Language Acquisition 2 Final

Which of the following sentences is an example of a compound sentence that is complex?

A. The lightning struck and the children screamed in the park.

B. The children were playing in the park and screamed when the lightning struck.

C. While the children were playing in the park, the lightning struck and the children screamed.

D. The lightning struck the tree while the children were playing in the park.

C. While the children were playing in the park, the lightning struck and the children screamed.

“He is as strong as an ox” would be an example of what type of metaphor?

Simile

What type of figurative language is below?

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”

Proverb

Sarah has been asked to define the word Success. She writes,

“The girl was asked by her mother to bake some cookies. She mixes the cookies, bakes them in the oven, and cools them. Her mother looked at the cookies and said, “Those are perfect. They smell good, they taste good, and they are yummy.” The girl thought to herself, my cookies were a success.”

This is an example of what type of a definition?

Vocabulary Scenario Technique

You are working in southern West Virginia and a teacher mentions that the students in her class struggle with figurative language such as that found in jokes. You realize this is most likely due to

Language Level

Later in the same book, the following sentence occurs.

"Hare you have cheated me again," growled Bear.

What type of word is cheated and how might you best define it?

Adjective, synonym

You are working with a 5th grade teacher on her ELA assignments. She wants to have the students increase their use of complex sentences. You tell her that if the students increase should increase their use of ________ words they will likely increase their use of clauses/complex language. Which of the following would you recommend?

Metacognitive Verbs

What type of figurative language is used below?

“As the car drove by, the boy said, ‘Man, those are sic wheel.’”

Slang

“John was a train with no track” is an example of _____.

Metaphor

My mother often tells me, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” This would be an example of

Proverb

You are writing a student friendly definition for disseminate.

Which word type would you need to utilize in the definition?

Tier 1 words

You are reading a story about two animals who live on a farm to kindergarteners, you read the sentence below.

Hare plucked off all the tops of the radishes and potatoes and put them in a pile for bear.

For the word that is underlined, what would be a good way to define the word?

use a synonym

“Bob’s head was tennis ball with no fuzz” is an example of ____.

Metaphor

The fourth-grade teacher wants to identify words to teach. You recommend which of the following words as targets?

Analyze, determine, formulate

If you were discussing with the parent of a typically developing 4-year old the primary method for their child to learn new words, which of the following statements would be true.

• Your child will primarily learn new words through your conversations.

• Your child will learn the most new words through reading and writing

• Your child will learn the most new words through reading

• Your child will learn the most new words through writing.

your child will primarily learn new words through your conversations

You are reading a book to a class of 1st grade students. In the book, it mentions that the grandfather used a shoehorn as he prepared to leave the house. Some of the students misinterpreted the word as being a horn used to find your shoes. This was an example of

• semantic transparency of the word

• lack of semantic transparency

• double function word

• use of proper contextual clues

lack of semantic transparency

William, a 4-year old child, said “I am happy playing in the sand.” When analyzing this sentence for grammatical morphology, you would provide him credit for which of the following?

• a contractible copula

• an uncontractible auxiliary

• a contractible auxiliary

• an uncontractible copula

a contractible copular

The underlined and bolded portion of the following sentence is an example of what? “Johnny was quickly running into the park”

• a contractible auxiliary

• an uncontractible copula

• a contractible copula

• an uncontractible auxiliary

an uncontractible auxiliary

Jack is sitting on the stand during a trial. He says the following, “I was at the convenient store buying a drink. The robber came in as I was at the register. When I looked at the door, I saw that he was 6’ 2”.” However under cross-examination, Jack said, “I looked at the robber when he was by the door. I think he was 6’ 2”.” You know that Jack’s description of height used ______ the first time and _____ the second.

• factive verb, non-factive verb

• factive verb, factive verb

• non-factive verb, factive verb

• non-factive verb, non-factive verb

factive verb; nonfactive verb

The bolded and underlined portion of the following sentence is an example of what? Sarah walks to school every day to get her exercise.

• third person singular –s

• a contractible copula

• regular past-tense

• plural -s

third person singular -s

Which of the following word pairs would be most difficult for students to learn?

• jump -> jumper

• bare -> barely

• wave -> wavy

• metal -> metallic

jump —> jumper

Mrs. Thompson is providing instruction to her 4th grade class on scientific terms such as hypothesis, reflect, prediction. She notes that some of the students struggle to demonstrate an understanding for these terms but realizes they are an example of later developing language because ____________.

• they require the student to be self-directed

• they are examples of theory of mind

• they are abstract words

• they are intrapersonal focused

they are abstract words

In the following sentence, explain the change in the root word to create activate. “You will need to activate the bomb by pushing the button.”

• changes from a verb to adjective

• changes from adjective to verb

• changes from noun to verb

• changes from verb to noun

changes from an adjective to a verb

In your school district, there is a discussion about increasing the amount of second language courses offered at the elementary school level. Some of the instructors believe that the courses should begin as early as 5 years of age. This would be because of which reason?

• first language learning theory

• critical period hypothesis

• child’s executive functioning

• motivation to learn language

critical theory hypothesis

Sarah is an SLP in the schools. She is talking with a teacher who explains that this week she will be having students identify elaborated noun phrases within their literature and then revise their own stories to include elaborated noun phrases. For which of the following areas of language will she be providing instruction?

• Syntax and semantics

• Phonology and semantics

• Morphology and semantics

• Pragmatics and syntax

syntax and semantics

You are consulting with a 7th grade teacher about areas for classroom instruction. She says that in reviewing the state assessments, she has observed the students are struggling with understanding new complex words with prefixes and suffixes and the ratings on their written essays were low for spelling. You suggest instruction in which of the following areas given its overlap in these two areas.

• figurative language

• grammatical morphology

• derivational morphology

• multi-meaning words

derivational morphology

Jack, who is 17, is living in Germany and is enjoying learning the German language within the high school. It is likely that he will be successful in acquiring German because

• he is forced to learn the language

• he is immersed in the language

• his age of learning German is ideal.

• the teachers are providing flashcards of important words.

he is immersed in the language

Sally says “Mommy is happily cooking dinner.” In this sentence, she used

• a preposition

• an adverb

• a contractible copula

• an adjective

an adverb

Donald was sitting with his friends eating ice cream. As they ate, a red convertible Porsche drove past the group. Don looked at his friends and said, “That is a sweet ride!” His use of sweet would be an example of:

• morphological complex word

• metalinguistic word

• adverbial conjunct

• double function word

double function word

Jack, a 3rd grader, is reading the information in italics. He doesn’t know the word lecture. Sarah was nervous about school. She knew the lecture would seem long. However, she had worked many hours to prepare the information she would share with her friends on volcanoes during class. Using the information about school, preparing before class, presenting to friends, and the topic of volcanoes around the word he didn’t know (lecture), Jack figures out lecture is a presentation given to teach about a topic. He did this using __________________.

• direct instruction

• morphological analysis

• fast mapping

• intuition

fast mapping

Mr. Patterson is teaching students about Lewis & Clark exploring of the Louisiana Purchase. As they are reading a passage, they identify the word exploration. Upon inquiry, Mr. Patterson notes that some of the students do not understand the meaning of the word. Through the instruction on its meaning, he assists them in identifying its root word (explore) as well as identifying “clues” such as being used as a noun. In addition to teaching the words, Mr. Patterson taught the students which word learning strategies?

• direct instruction, morphological analysis

• fast mapping, contextual clues

• contextual clues, direct instruction

• morphological analysis, contextual clues

morphological analysis, contextual clues

What is the Logographic Stage?

• processing of words as visual symbols

• instantly recognizes familiar symbols and logos

• recognize some letters or words by their shape/visual features

What is the Alphabetic stage?

• understanding of letter-sound relationship

• systematic usage of phonemes and combinations to decode words

What is the Orthographic stage?

• whole word graphic sequences (written words as a whole)

• internal representation of whole words, and parts of words

• systematic approach to reading

What is phonemic awareness?

identifying and manipulating individual sounds

What is phonological awareness?

identifying and manipulating units spoken language

What skills are included in Language Comprehension?

• background knowledge

• vocab

• language structures

• verbal reasoning

• literacy knowledge

What skills are included in Word Recognition?

• phonological awareness

• decoding

• sight recognition

What is a descriptive sequence?

“Look, a leaf”

What is an action sequence?

listing off actions that doesn’t provide a story or sequence

What is a basic episodic?

includes an initiating event, action, and a consequence

“The aliens landed in the park”

What is an elaborated episode?

includes a complicating action (in the middle of the episode)

What is a multi episodic episode?

more than one episode where each one is connected

no complicating action

What is a simple sentence?

has an independent clause

What is a compound sentence?

two or more independent clauses

What is a complex sentence?

one independent clause and one or more dependent clause

What is a compound-complex sentence?

two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses