MTTC ESL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
1st stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅between 6-8 months
babbling stage
child makes repetitive patterns of sound with mouth
2nd stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅one-word stage
9-18 months
child makes basic word stems and single open-class words
3rd stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅two-word stage
18-24 months
child begins making miniature sentences with simple semantic
relations
4th stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅early telegraph stage (multiword/morpheme
stage)
24-30 months
,MTTC ESL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
child begins to express sentence structures with lexical rather than
functional or grammatical morphemes
5th stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅later multiword stage
30+ months
characteristic grammatical or functional structures of the primary
language emerge and are incorporated
Behavioralist Model -
correct answer ✅B.F Skinner
-individuals learn language as direct response to stimuli
-patterns of language produce certain activities in external world
and individual develops response to those stimuli
-problems with this theory=
*creation of language is improvisionary
*linguistic response does not always elicit clear or recognizable
rewards, which suggests it would be difficult for a child to have his
responses reinforced.
, MTTC ESL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Nativist Model -
correct answer ✅Noam Chomsky
-attempts to explain how people are able to understand and
produce infinite number of linguistic expressions
-asserts that individuals are born w/ a universal grammar wired into
their brains, which they use as a template for language acquisition.
-principles of language are innate and parameters of each language
are acquired in first few years of life.
-theory present in contemporary thought
Vygotsky -
correct answer ✅sociocultural theory states that learning begins
as a result of interpersonal communication and then is internalized
as intrapersonal
-coined phrase "zone of proximal development"
(difference b/t what a person knows & what they could know w/ a
bit of assistance from someone else)
Bronfenbrenner -
correct answer ✅-his ecological model describes development in
terms of four nested levels:
(1) microsystem
ANSWERS
1st stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅between 6-8 months
babbling stage
child makes repetitive patterns of sound with mouth
2nd stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅one-word stage
9-18 months
child makes basic word stems and single open-class words
3rd stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅two-word stage
18-24 months
child begins making miniature sentences with simple semantic
relations
4th stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅early telegraph stage (multiword/morpheme
stage)
24-30 months
,MTTC ESL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
child begins to express sentence structures with lexical rather than
functional or grammatical morphemes
5th stage of first-language aquisition -
correct answer ✅later multiword stage
30+ months
characteristic grammatical or functional structures of the primary
language emerge and are incorporated
Behavioralist Model -
correct answer ✅B.F Skinner
-individuals learn language as direct response to stimuli
-patterns of language produce certain activities in external world
and individual develops response to those stimuli
-problems with this theory=
*creation of language is improvisionary
*linguistic response does not always elicit clear or recognizable
rewards, which suggests it would be difficult for a child to have his
responses reinforced.
, MTTC ESL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Nativist Model -
correct answer ✅Noam Chomsky
-attempts to explain how people are able to understand and
produce infinite number of linguistic expressions
-asserts that individuals are born w/ a universal grammar wired into
their brains, which they use as a template for language acquisition.
-principles of language are innate and parameters of each language
are acquired in first few years of life.
-theory present in contemporary thought
Vygotsky -
correct answer ✅sociocultural theory states that learning begins
as a result of interpersonal communication and then is internalized
as intrapersonal
-coined phrase "zone of proximal development"
(difference b/t what a person knows & what they could know w/ a
bit of assistance from someone else)
Bronfenbrenner -
correct answer ✅-his ecological model describes development in
terms of four nested levels:
(1) microsystem
