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?

    <p>Phonemes</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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