SLO1 WGU REVISION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Language teaching methods that have a bottom-up approach and teach
grammatical,
lexical, phonological, and functional units of language in a step by step approach is -
✔✔Analytic
✔✔Situation dialect or style is also known as - ✔✔Register
✔✔Words used to demean others are considered - ✔✔Epithets. (nickname or label)
✔✔Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. This sentence is an example of - ✔✔Semantic
anomaly
✔✔The offender apologized for his offense, but the victim still held a grudge.The phrase
"held a
grudge" is an example of - ✔✔idiom
✔✔Which is an example of a count noun? - ✔✔chicken
✔✔Which of the following explains how children acquire a first language? -
✔✔interaction
✔✔Which of the following is the best explanation for the errors that second language
learners make in the L2 ? - ✔✔transfer
✔✔Although they are 250 miles apart, they keep in constant contact on the internet. -
✔✔Complex Sentence
✔✔Bilingual children perform better on certain________ tasks, such as focusing on a
task and switching attention between tasks - ✔✔cognitive
✔✔assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
"the process of _______________ may impact both social and psychological well-
being" - ✔✔acculturation
✔✔Early theories of language were heavily influenced by - ✔✔behaviorism
✔✔which theorist showed that language is a complex cognitive system that could not be
acquired by behaviorist principles. - ✔✔Noam Chomsky
✔✔what is recasting? - ✔✔asking a question or model how it should be said
, ✔✔it is proven children learn in the same amount of time whether they learn the
language with - ✔✔baby talk, elementary or formally
✔✔children have different understanding of grammar and language at - ✔✔different
ages and stages
✔✔children _______ what they hear to __________ what they want. they may show
grammatical error but it is at the level that they - ✔✔mimic explain comprehend
✔✔what children hear around them and start to have interest in or want to learn -
✔✔Natural order
✔✔quality matters more than quantity - ✔✔input output
✔✔the way student feels about language, the people who speak it and the situation
they are in - ✔✔attitude
✔✔native language influence - ✔✔L2 is less difficult if similar to L1.
✔✔surface features of language - ✔✔phonemes morphemes syntax
✔✔L2 Learners create this language when they attempt to communicate in the target
language. - ✔✔interlanguage grammars
✔✔approach forces prediction of text or vocabulary based on previous knowledge -
✔✔top down
✔✔piece by piece -focus on word/parts of words, then parts of a sentence, then whole
sentences-traditional approach - ✔✔bottoms up appraoch
✔✔universal grammar - ✔✔Noam Chomsky
✔✔the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis, • the Monitor hypothesis, • the Natural Order
hypothesis, • the Input hypothesis, • and the Affective Filter hypothesis - ✔✔Krashan
✔✔The term ______ is used to refer to the gradual development of ability in a language
by using it naturally in communicative situations with others who know the language. -
✔✔aquisition
✔✔is a term used to describe second language used incorrectly and is thought to stifle
any further progress made in said language by learner - ✔✔fossilization
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Language teaching methods that have a bottom-up approach and teach
grammatical,
lexical, phonological, and functional units of language in a step by step approach is -
✔✔Analytic
✔✔Situation dialect or style is also known as - ✔✔Register
✔✔Words used to demean others are considered - ✔✔Epithets. (nickname or label)
✔✔Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. This sentence is an example of - ✔✔Semantic
anomaly
✔✔The offender apologized for his offense, but the victim still held a grudge.The phrase
"held a
grudge" is an example of - ✔✔idiom
✔✔Which is an example of a count noun? - ✔✔chicken
✔✔Which of the following explains how children acquire a first language? -
✔✔interaction
✔✔Which of the following is the best explanation for the errors that second language
learners make in the L2 ? - ✔✔transfer
✔✔Although they are 250 miles apart, they keep in constant contact on the internet. -
✔✔Complex Sentence
✔✔Bilingual children perform better on certain________ tasks, such as focusing on a
task and switching attention between tasks - ✔✔cognitive
✔✔assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
"the process of _______________ may impact both social and psychological well-
being" - ✔✔acculturation
✔✔Early theories of language were heavily influenced by - ✔✔behaviorism
✔✔which theorist showed that language is a complex cognitive system that could not be
acquired by behaviorist principles. - ✔✔Noam Chomsky
✔✔what is recasting? - ✔✔asking a question or model how it should be said
, ✔✔it is proven children learn in the same amount of time whether they learn the
language with - ✔✔baby talk, elementary or formally
✔✔children have different understanding of grammar and language at - ✔✔different
ages and stages
✔✔children _______ what they hear to __________ what they want. they may show
grammatical error but it is at the level that they - ✔✔mimic explain comprehend
✔✔what children hear around them and start to have interest in or want to learn -
✔✔Natural order
✔✔quality matters more than quantity - ✔✔input output
✔✔the way student feels about language, the people who speak it and the situation
they are in - ✔✔attitude
✔✔native language influence - ✔✔L2 is less difficult if similar to L1.
✔✔surface features of language - ✔✔phonemes morphemes syntax
✔✔L2 Learners create this language when they attempt to communicate in the target
language. - ✔✔interlanguage grammars
✔✔approach forces prediction of text or vocabulary based on previous knowledge -
✔✔top down
✔✔piece by piece -focus on word/parts of words, then parts of a sentence, then whole
sentences-traditional approach - ✔✔bottoms up appraoch
✔✔universal grammar - ✔✔Noam Chomsky
✔✔the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis, • the Monitor hypothesis, • the Natural Order
hypothesis, • the Input hypothesis, • and the Affective Filter hypothesis - ✔✔Krashan
✔✔The term ______ is used to refer to the gradual development of ability in a language
by using it naturally in communicative situations with others who know the language. -
✔✔aquisition
✔✔is a term used to describe second language used incorrectly and is thought to stifle
any further progress made in said language by learner - ✔✔fossilization
