MTTC ESL STUDY SET questions with answers

1st stage of first-language aquisition between 6-8 months babbling stage child makes repetitive patterns of sound with mouth 2nd stage of first-language aquisition one-word stage 9-18 months child makes basic word stems and single open-class words 3rd stage of first-language aquisition two-word stage 18-24 months child begins making miniature sentences with simple semantic relations 4th stage of first-language aquisition early telegraph stage (multiword/morpheme stage) 24-30 months child begins to express sentence structures with lexical rather than functional or grammatical morphemes 5th stage of first-language aquisition later multiword stage 30+ months characteristic grammatical or functional structures of the primary language emerge and are incorporated Behavioralist Model 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