Foundations of Second Language Acquisition Quiz
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What did Saville-Troike state about bilingual or multilingual individuals?

  • Bilingual individuals are less than monolingual individuals in the world.
  • There are more bilingual or multilingual individuals in the world than there are monolingual. (correct)
  • The number of bilingual individuals is equal to monolingual individuals.
  • There is no significant difference between bilingual and monolingual individuals.

    • Why can the numbers of L1 and L2 speakers of different languages only be estimated?

  • The numbers are too large to count accurately.
  • The data is too complex to analyze accurately.
  • There is no interest in estimating L1 and L2 speakers.
  • Linguistic information is not usually collected officially. (correct)

    • At what age did individuals produce all the vowel sounds and most consonant sounds of any language in the world?

  • By the age of 2 years
  • By the age of 1 year
  • By the age of 6 months (correct)
  • By the age of 3 years

    • What did individuals learn to discriminate among in terms of meaningful sounds of their L1?

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    What did Saville-Troike state about the nature of language learning?

    <p>We acquired our L1 before going to school and without any effort. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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    Bilingual/multilingual vs. monolingual

    There are more bilingual or multilingual people than monolingual people in the world.

    L1 and L2 speaker numbers

    Estimating the number of L1 and L2 speakers is difficult because official data isn't always collected.

    Vowel/consonant sound production age

    By 6 months of age, children produce most vowel and consonant sounds.

    L1 sound discrimination

    Children learn to distinguish meaningful sounds (phonemes) in their first language.

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    Effortless L1 learning

    We learn our first language before school and without making a conscious effort to.

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