SLO1 WGU MAIN EXAMINATION 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Caretaker talk - ✔✔Modified talk used by parents and other caretakers when talking
to young children.
Esso baby
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔In regards to lang acquisition, language learning is a matter of
imitation and habit formation
✔✔Innatism - ✔✔Chomsky: children are biologically programmed for language
✔✔Interactionism - ✔✔Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between
the uniquely human characteristic of the child and the environment in which the child
develops
✔✔Foreigner talk - ✔✔Modified language used by native speakers of a language when
speaking to a nonnative speaker
✔✔Modified input - ✔✔Changing language to make it more understandable for one's
conversation partner
✔✔Contrastive analysis hypothesis - ✔✔Linked to behaviorism because they believe
that errors in L2 come from l1 interference
✔✔Krashen's five hypothesis - ✔✔Acquisition learning
Monitor
Natural order
Input
Affective
✔✔Holophrastic - ✔✔Stage of child language acquisition where one word = one
sentence
✔✔Telegraphic - ✔✔Utterances of children after the two-word stage when any
grammatical morphemes are omitted
✔✔Dialect - ✔✔Language variety used by a particular group of speakers
✔✔Regional dialect - ✔✔Lang variety used by a particular group of spellers in a certain
geographical region
, ✔✔Social dialect - ✔✔Lang variety used by a group of speakers who share the same
social status
✔✔Isogloss - ✔✔Boundary separation one regional dialect characteristic from another
✔✔Accent - ✔✔Pronunciation of a specific regional dialect by a nonnative speaker
✔✔Standard American English - ✔✔An idealized dialect of English that is considered by
some prescriptive grammarians to be the proper form of American English
✔✔African American English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken by some African Americans
✔✔Ebonics - ✔✔Alternative term for the various dialects of African American English
first used in 1997
✔✔Chicano English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken b some bilingual Mexican
Americans in the southwest and California
✔✔Code-switching - ✔✔The insertion of a word or phrase other than that being spoken
into a single sentence, or the movement back and forth between two languages or
dialects
✔✔Lingua Franca - ✔✔Major language used in an area here speakers of more than
one language love that permits communication and commerce among them
✔✔Pidgin - ✔✔Rule governed lang developed for communication among speakers of
mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages
Market language
✔✔Creole - ✔✔Language which started as a pidgin learned by children as 1st language
✔✔Style/register - ✔✔Situation dialect
School; friend; church; work; family
✔✔Slang - ✔✔Words and phrases used in casual speech often invested and spread by
close social groups
Yo
Wassup
Yolo
Yo momma
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Caretaker talk - ✔✔Modified talk used by parents and other caretakers when talking
to young children.
Esso baby
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔In regards to lang acquisition, language learning is a matter of
imitation and habit formation
✔✔Innatism - ✔✔Chomsky: children are biologically programmed for language
✔✔Interactionism - ✔✔Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between
the uniquely human characteristic of the child and the environment in which the child
develops
✔✔Foreigner talk - ✔✔Modified language used by native speakers of a language when
speaking to a nonnative speaker
✔✔Modified input - ✔✔Changing language to make it more understandable for one's
conversation partner
✔✔Contrastive analysis hypothesis - ✔✔Linked to behaviorism because they believe
that errors in L2 come from l1 interference
✔✔Krashen's five hypothesis - ✔✔Acquisition learning
Monitor
Natural order
Input
Affective
✔✔Holophrastic - ✔✔Stage of child language acquisition where one word = one
sentence
✔✔Telegraphic - ✔✔Utterances of children after the two-word stage when any
grammatical morphemes are omitted
✔✔Dialect - ✔✔Language variety used by a particular group of speakers
✔✔Regional dialect - ✔✔Lang variety used by a particular group of spellers in a certain
geographical region
, ✔✔Social dialect - ✔✔Lang variety used by a group of speakers who share the same
social status
✔✔Isogloss - ✔✔Boundary separation one regional dialect characteristic from another
✔✔Accent - ✔✔Pronunciation of a specific regional dialect by a nonnative speaker
✔✔Standard American English - ✔✔An idealized dialect of English that is considered by
some prescriptive grammarians to be the proper form of American English
✔✔African American English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken by some African Americans
✔✔Ebonics - ✔✔Alternative term for the various dialects of African American English
first used in 1997
✔✔Chicano English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken b some bilingual Mexican
Americans in the southwest and California
✔✔Code-switching - ✔✔The insertion of a word or phrase other than that being spoken
into a single sentence, or the movement back and forth between two languages or
dialects
✔✔Lingua Franca - ✔✔Major language used in an area here speakers of more than
one language love that permits communication and commerce among them
✔✔Pidgin - ✔✔Rule governed lang developed for communication among speakers of
mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages
Market language
✔✔Creole - ✔✔Language which started as a pidgin learned by children as 1st language
✔✔Style/register - ✔✔Situation dialect
School; friend; church; work; family
✔✔Slang - ✔✔Words and phrases used in casual speech often invested and spread by
close social groups
Yo
Wassup
Yolo
Yo momma
