, 2.2 Assignment 2 (02 April 2024)
ASSESSMENT 02
This assessment counts 45% of your year mark. This is a written assessment and needs to
be submitted under Assessment 2 on myUnisa.
Instructions
Please read through Study Units 1 to Chapter 6 in Multilingualism: The Role or Languages in
South Africa for this assignment. This is a written assignment, please type the answers and
save the document as a PDF, or hand-write your answers then scan and save it as a PDF,and
submit your assignment under Assignment 2 on myUnisa.
Question 1
Read the following dialogue and answer the questions that follow.
Nthabiseng: More juice.
Mother: You want juice? Do you want more juice?
(Mother speaks slowly and clearly)
Nthabiseng: Want juice.
Mother: In your cup with the piggies on? Can I use your piggie cup?
Nthabiseng: Piggie cup
Mother: Look, Mommy’s getting your juice.
1a. Which word stage is Nthabiseng in now and what age group does she fall into?
Motivate your answer.
Nthabiseng appears to be in the one-word stage of language development, also known as the
holophrastic stage. This stage typically occurs between the ages of 12 to 18 months. In this stage,
children begin to express themselves using single words to convey whole sentences or concepts.
Nthabiseng's use of single words like "juice" and "piggie cup" without any additional grammatical
elements suggests she is in this stage.
ASSESSMENT 02
This assessment counts 45% of your year mark. This is a written assessment and needs to
be submitted under Assessment 2 on myUnisa.
Instructions
Please read through Study Units 1 to Chapter 6 in Multilingualism: The Role or Languages in
South Africa for this assignment. This is a written assignment, please type the answers and
save the document as a PDF, or hand-write your answers then scan and save it as a PDF,and
submit your assignment under Assignment 2 on myUnisa.
Question 1
Read the following dialogue and answer the questions that follow.
Nthabiseng: More juice.
Mother: You want juice? Do you want more juice?
(Mother speaks slowly and clearly)
Nthabiseng: Want juice.
Mother: In your cup with the piggies on? Can I use your piggie cup?
Nthabiseng: Piggie cup
Mother: Look, Mommy’s getting your juice.
1a. Which word stage is Nthabiseng in now and what age group does she fall into?
Motivate your answer.
Nthabiseng appears to be in the one-word stage of language development, also known as the
holophrastic stage. This stage typically occurs between the ages of 12 to 18 months. In this stage,
children begin to express themselves using single words to convey whole sentences or concepts.
Nthabiseng's use of single words like "juice" and "piggie cup" without any additional grammatical
elements suggests she is in this stage.
