Study Questions for The Study of Language by George Yule



Study Questions for Ch 13-16 from The Study of Language by George Yule AND for the related video tutorials

You need to do the following:

➢ Be prepared to discuss ALL of the questions in the seminar for these chapters

➢ Cut n paste the questions (for written answers) from this document, and then answer your questions; that way, it will be easier to see what you are answering

➢ Keep your answers brief and to the point. Your answers are to be of a written quality equivalent to B level university standard.

➢ Post (by the given time & date) written answers ONLY for the emboldened questions.

Chapter 13: First Language Acquisition

1. Why is interaction with other language users important? What happens if there is no interaction?

2. What is the acquisition schedule?

3. What are the common characteristics of caretaker speech?

4. Complete the following table

| |Approximate age |Characteristic example |

|Pre-language stage | | |

|One word stage (holophrastic) | | |

|Two word Stage | | |

|Telegraphic Stage | | |

5. What does it mean to acquire a language? Do children simply mimic the language of their parents/family environment?

6. What kinds of overgeneralisations and overextensions are made by young children speaking Swedish? Can you provide examples from your own family and friends?

7. In terms of syntactical constructions, would it be true to say that some constructions are naturally later acquired than others? i.e. Are more complex syntactical structures acquired later than easier ones?

Chapter 14: Second Language Acquisition

8. What is the difference between language acquisition and language learning?

9. What is the critical age hypotheses? (also known as the critical period). You may have to look at another source. What is the essence of the theory and how could it (did it) affect language teaching methodology during 1960s-70s?

10. What kind of affective filters do you recall from your own language learning experiences? (or in fact any other subjects!)

11. What are the main characteristics of the following teaching methods for language learning? (i)grammar translation method (ii) audio lingual approaches (iii) communicative approaches

12. What is interlanguage and how does it come about?

13. Memorise this statement. Make a firm inscription in your memory!!!!!!!

Motivation may be as much a result of success as a cause. A language learning situation that encourages success and accomplishment must consequently be more helpful than one that dwells on errors and correction.

14. Describe three different types of communicative competence

Chapter 15

15. Distinguish between gestures and sign language

16. Provide an overview of the different types of sign languages.

17. Distinguish between orientation and movement as regards sign language

18. Compare sign language to ‘normal’ language as regards meaning, arbitrariness and acquisition.

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