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6. Who identified that Language Acquisition support system?

  • Bruner
  • Piaget
  • Chomsky
  • Skinner

7. What is meant by the imaginative stage identified by Halliday

  • that children use language to cross the boundary between reality and fantasty
  • that language is used to control the actions of others
  • that children use language to communicate factual information
  • that children use language to express feelings, and express growing perceptions of the self

8. What are the four developmental stages of spelling identified by Gentry?

  • prepatory stage, consolidation stage, differentiation stage, integration stage
  • pre phonemic, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional
  • observation, comment, narrative, report
  • conventional letters, invented spelling, appropriate spelling, correct spelling

9. What is a common feature of the telegraphic stage?

  • that children use two word combinations
  • that children commonly omit function words
  • that children have grammatically complex combinations
  • that children use holophrases

10. Who believed that children are born with an innate knowledge of the structure of language

  • Chomsky
  • Piaget
  • Assowa
  • Bruner