English Language A Level CLA 2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers (Detailed &
Elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST 100% Solved 2025!!
Applying knowledge - correct answer Consider implications - what is older person trying to
initiate/convey
- trying to tell child importance of something - pragmatics
- trying to ensure child is listening
- instigate a response
Engage with child's use
- discuss what they're trying to state
- awareness of any language features (morphology, syntax etc.)
- what do they not yet include (any omissions) so what stage are they at and are they advanced
- anything paralinguistic to communicate instead of lang.
Noam Chomsky - correct answer 1960s, Language Acquisition Device - born with an inherited
ability to learn any human lang. LAD encodes major principles of a lang. and its grand structures
into the brain. Can't learn through imitation alone because the lang. spoken around them is
highly irregular, often broken up, ungrammatical
Support for LAD - correct answer - children learning to speak never make grammatical errors
like wrong order of SVO
- child notices adult's grammatically incorrect sentence
- virtuous errors show they're not learning through imitation alone
Against LAD - correct answer although it's clear that children don't learn lang. through imitation
alone, it doesn't prove that they must have an LAD. Could merely be through general learning
and understanding abilities and interactions with other people
Bruner - correct answer 1970s Language Acquisition Support System - caregivers support child's
linguistic development in social situations. Clear patterns of interaction between child and
caregiver in everyday situations (meal/bath time).
- Caregiver points things out and asks questions ("what's that? Is that a doggy?"), through this
support child gradually asks questions themselves
Meredith Rowe - correct answer there's a window of opportunity when children are just getting
into their productive communication, 10-18 months - predicts their language ability very
strongly later
, English Language A Level CLA 2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers (Detailed &
Elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST 100% Solved 2025!!
- strong link between gestures and the ability to pick up vocab, gets child engaged and
interacting
Dr Caspar Addyman - correct answer babies can hear and remember music even when in the
womb
- prefer consonance over dissonance
- prefer female voice, especially with "motherese" (high-energy singsgong tone)
- prefer plosive sounds
- can remember the tempo and timbre of music they've heard before
-> physiological response, makes them happy and can lead to anticipation and surprise with
changes in music
Eric Lenneburg - correct answer 1967 ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age -
language has to be acquired during a critical period of the first few years where they're
presented with adequate stimuli, if language input does not occur until after this time
grammatical fluency is never achieved
Lev Vygotsky - correct answer social interaction:
Private Speech: when a child talks aloud to itself, evidence that it is thinking to itself
Zone of proximal development: distance between actual independent developmental level and
the level of potential development
- when someone is in the ZPD, appropriate assistance will give them a boost
Wood et al. - correct answer 1976 Scaffolding - built on ZPD:
once task principally beyond learner's capacity is mastered with support of scaffolding, it can
then be removed and they will then be able to complete the task again on their own
Mekler et. al - correct answer 1988 language used in utterances affects the newborn's
responses - they use prosodic and rhythmic features to process lang
Piaget - correct answer 1936 Cognitive development - children are active learners who use
environment and social interactions to shape lang. through 4 stages. A child has to understand
a concept first so they can then acquire and map particular lang. to express it
Piaget Stage 1 - correct answer 0-2 years, sensorimotor stage:
can differentiate between self and objects, object permanence develops - objects exist when
out of sight
Piaget Stage 2 - correct answer 2-7 years, pre-operational:
Elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST 100% Solved 2025!!
Applying knowledge - correct answer Consider implications - what is older person trying to
initiate/convey
- trying to tell child importance of something - pragmatics
- trying to ensure child is listening
- instigate a response
Engage with child's use
- discuss what they're trying to state
- awareness of any language features (morphology, syntax etc.)
- what do they not yet include (any omissions) so what stage are they at and are they advanced
- anything paralinguistic to communicate instead of lang.
Noam Chomsky - correct answer 1960s, Language Acquisition Device - born with an inherited
ability to learn any human lang. LAD encodes major principles of a lang. and its grand structures
into the brain. Can't learn through imitation alone because the lang. spoken around them is
highly irregular, often broken up, ungrammatical
Support for LAD - correct answer - children learning to speak never make grammatical errors
like wrong order of SVO
- child notices adult's grammatically incorrect sentence
- virtuous errors show they're not learning through imitation alone
Against LAD - correct answer although it's clear that children don't learn lang. through imitation
alone, it doesn't prove that they must have an LAD. Could merely be through general learning
and understanding abilities and interactions with other people
Bruner - correct answer 1970s Language Acquisition Support System - caregivers support child's
linguistic development in social situations. Clear patterns of interaction between child and
caregiver in everyday situations (meal/bath time).
- Caregiver points things out and asks questions ("what's that? Is that a doggy?"), through this
support child gradually asks questions themselves
Meredith Rowe - correct answer there's a window of opportunity when children are just getting
into their productive communication, 10-18 months - predicts their language ability very
strongly later
, English Language A Level CLA 2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers (Detailed &
Elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST 100% Solved 2025!!
- strong link between gestures and the ability to pick up vocab, gets child engaged and
interacting
Dr Caspar Addyman - correct answer babies can hear and remember music even when in the
womb
- prefer consonance over dissonance
- prefer female voice, especially with "motherese" (high-energy singsgong tone)
- prefer plosive sounds
- can remember the tempo and timbre of music they've heard before
-> physiological response, makes them happy and can lead to anticipation and surprise with
changes in music
Eric Lenneburg - correct answer 1967 ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age -
language has to be acquired during a critical period of the first few years where they're
presented with adequate stimuli, if language input does not occur until after this time
grammatical fluency is never achieved
Lev Vygotsky - correct answer social interaction:
Private Speech: when a child talks aloud to itself, evidence that it is thinking to itself
Zone of proximal development: distance between actual independent developmental level and
the level of potential development
- when someone is in the ZPD, appropriate assistance will give them a boost
Wood et al. - correct answer 1976 Scaffolding - built on ZPD:
once task principally beyond learner's capacity is mastered with support of scaffolding, it can
then be removed and they will then be able to complete the task again on their own
Mekler et. al - correct answer 1988 language used in utterances affects the newborn's
responses - they use prosodic and rhythmic features to process lang
Piaget - correct answer 1936 Cognitive development - children are active learners who use
environment and social interactions to shape lang. through 4 stages. A child has to understand
a concept first so they can then acquire and map particular lang. to express it
Piaget Stage 1 - correct answer 0-2 years, sensorimotor stage:
can differentiate between self and objects, object permanence develops - objects exist when
out of sight
Piaget Stage 2 - correct answer 2-7 years, pre-operational:
