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Early Childhood Education explores the foundational principles, theories, and practices that support the learning and development of children from birth to eight years old. This course examines the role of educators, families, and communities in fostering healthy cognitive, emotional, social, and physical growth in early childhood settings. Students will learn about age-appropriate curriculum design, assessment methods, inclusive teaching strategies, and the importance of play-based learning. Emphasis is placed on understanding child development milestones, creating nurturing learning environments, and promoting positive interactions to support young children's holistic development and lifelong love of learning.
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Language Development 4th Edition by Erika Hoff
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Language Development
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Q1) Theories of language development can be divided into several categories of research, including: (WWW)
A) theories of how children develop a language acquisition device.
B) studying different aspects of cognitive development, perspectives on language development, and theories of childhood development.
C) focusing on longitudinal, observational, experimental and correlational studies.
D) studying children with disabilities and communicative handicaps.
Answer: B
Q2) Researchers agree that language development is a:
A) socially learned behavior defined by a child's social or cultural community.
B) complex system that maps sounds, or oral language, to meanings.
C) result of a device in the human brain that takes information from the environment and uses it to produce language.
D) None of these answers are true.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biological Bases of Language Development
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Q1) Non-biological influences on second language acquisition include:
A) input conditions, which differ between children and adults.
B) the age at which the learner is exposed to the new language.
C) social and psychological variables.
D) All of these answers are true.
Answer: D
Q2) The equipotentiality hypothesis holds that:
A) the left hemisphere is specialized for language at birth.
B) the right hemisphere is specialized for language at birth.
C) the right and left hemisphere have equal capacity for language at birth.
D) language is equally well-processed by both hemispheres throughout childhood.
Answer: C
Q3) Broca's area is in the:
A) front part of the left hemisphere near the part of the cortex that controls movement.
B) rear part of the left hemisphere next to the primary auditory cortex.
C) front part of the right hemisphere near the part of the cortex that controls movement.
D) front part of the left hemisphere that displays localization of function.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Communicative Development: Foundations and Functions of Language
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Q1) The development of conversational skill depends upon understanding of:
A) rules on how to respond to speakers and the ability to initiate topics.
B) learning how to adapt rules to different types of utterances.
C) use of repairs and knowing how to sustain ongoing dialogue.
D) All of these answers are true.
Answer: D
Q2) Researchers suggest that language function and language form:
A) are learned as independent functions.
B) develop parallel, one to the other.
C) are interconnected.
D) are not clearly understood.
Answer: C
Q3) The "reach of speech" refers to:
A) topics the children talk about.
B) what the children ask for.
C) how the children propose a location for a known act on a known object.
D) how the children request continuation of a new activity.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Phonological Development: Learning the Sounds of Language
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Q1) Motherese is:
A) speech that adults use with infants that is different from the way adults talk to adults.
B) speech that infants use when talking to their mothers.
C) baby talk used by adults.
D) a special language that is formed between infants and their mothers.
Q2) At the end of the babbling stage, children acquiring English are typically using:
A) all of the consonants of their language.
B) no correct consonants.
C) all of the vowels and a few consonants.
D) approximately 11 consonants.
Q3) Describe how infants develop mental representation of speech sounds and indicate the various issues brought up in this research. Discuss the implications of this research on child language acquisition processes in general.
Q4) Aspects of sound that differentiate one sound from another are called:
A) phones
B) allophones
C) phonemes
D) distinctive features
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Chapter 5: Lexical Development: Learning Words
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Q1) A child is standing by the door saying, "uh, uh, uh" because she wants to go outside where her sister is playing. In this example, "uh, uh, uh" would:
A) qualify as a word because her mother understands what she wants.
B) qualify as a word because she has said it before in the same context.
C) not qualify as a word because it is not a symbol that is used in other contexts to mean, "Go outside".
D) not qualify as a word because the child does not use it every time she wants to go outside.
Q2) Describe how concepts are related to word learning in early language development.
Q3) Researchers propose that the referential/expressive difference in child vocabulary development is:
A) a result of the frequency with which mothers use particular sets of words.
B) a factor related to the child's cognitive ability.
C) a result of emphasis placed in the child's language on personal/social words.
D) related to the gender of the child.
Q4) Describe two hypotheses about the underlying factors to the word spurt and compare them for adequacy of explanation.
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Chapter 6: The Development of Syntax and Morphology:
Learning the Structure of Language
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Q1) Combinatorial speech refers to instances when children:
A) combine meanings in two-word utterances.
B) combine meanings in three-word utterances.
C) develop cognitive skills which reflect knowledge of semantic relations in two and three-word utterances.
D) All of these answers are true.
Q2) Research on children's early language development and grammatical rules indicates that children:
A) utilize lexically based rules on how to understand language.
B) process language in terms of a semantically based grammar system of knowledge.
C) apply an underlying knowledge of syntax to comprehension of language.
D) All of these answers are true.
Q3) Studies of language as a system of rules:
A) refers to a set of abstract definitions.
B) considers language as a series of symbolic representations.
C) limits how linguists can account for generating sentences.
D) provides the basis of most linguistic studies.
Q4) Describe the stages of grammatical development in early multiword utterances.
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Chapter 7: Language, Culture, and Cognition in Development
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Q1) Evidence that language is a medium for thought suggests that:
A) lower-level thinking skills can be conducted without language.
B) higher-level thinking skills require language.
C) advanced language is necessary to higher-level thinking.
D) All of these statements are true.
Q2) Slobin's (2001) research on children's narratives across differing languages suggests that:
A) explanations of the exact same event in different languages include different information about the event.
B) explanations of the exact same event in different languages include the same information about the event.
C) children tell stories the same way across cultures.
D) children tell stories differently across cultures.
Q3) Comparisons of Japanese mothers' to American mothers' speech to their children illustrate:
A) that Japanese mothers encourage their children to tell stories.
B) that American mothers have little time for children to tell stories.
C) how mothers' language with children is culturally prescribed.
D) the origin of proverbs in each culture.
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Chapter 8: Childhood Bilingualism
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Q1) Early discussions on bilingualism centered on the performance of intelligence of bilingual children. Later findings overturned the results of early research. Describe the nature of the discussions, the social context and the varying perspectives on childhood bilingualism as it relates to cognition and the brain.
Q2) Children who learn a second language by moving to a new community:
A) acquire the second language quickly.
B) learn the second language in a process called "language transfer."
C) require a longer time to learn the second language than generally thought.
D) produce more errors in the first language while learning the second language.
Q3) Studies on the course of bilingual language development indicate that after 21 months of exposure to English, ______% of children acquired ________ skills, compared to monolinguals.
A) 90; grammatical morpheme
B) 65; receptive vocabulary
C) 40; story grammar
D) 60; conversational
Q4) Discuss the effect on children's language and cognitive development of growing up in a bilingual family or community.
Q5) Discuss how cultural perspective influences bilingual language development.
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Chapter 9: Language in School Years
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Q1) Story grammar refers to:
A) features of language that are used in story structure.
B) a setting, episodes, characters, an initiating event, a conflict and a resolution.
C) sequence of events in a story.
D) All of these answers are true.
Q2) Children with advanced language skills at an early language can be expected to:
A) have increased reading skills.
B) lose interest in reading later in life.
C) have increased intelligence.
D) learn to read similarly to children with fewer skills.
Q3) Phonologic and phonemic awareness are:
A) developed at different ages.
B) acquired simultaneously, but in different levels of accuracy.
C) acquired at a young age, but phonemic awareness is not fully developed until after the age of five.
D) related and build upon each other.
Q4) Describe the stages and processes involved in children's phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic development after age five.
Q5) Describe how children acquire accents and make changes in dialect.
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Chapter 10: Language Development in Special Populations
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Q1) Individuals with autism:
A) tend to have difficulties with literal interpretations of communications.
B) become more skilled at conversation at older ages.
C) produce more descriptions of ongoing events as they get older.
D) usually address a small or limited number of topics in conversation.
Q2) The relationship between the degree of mental retardation and its affect on language development is:
A) the degree of mental retardation is an accurate predictor of language growth.
B) if cognitive skills are delayed so are language skills.
C) that the degree of mental retardation does not predict the course of language development.
D) None of these answers are true.
Q3) Identify how children with Williams Syndrome develop grammatical, lexical and gender assignment skills. What are the implications for research?
Q4) When children with Williams Syndrome speak, they:
A) use syntactically complex sentences and rich vocabulary.
B) tell complex and coherent stories.
C) All of these answers are true.
D) None of these answers are true.
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