Submitted by: Amina Humayun(roll no.

42)
Misbah Arshad
Sidra Aslam
Task no.: 10
MCQ’S of chapter 1st Language learning in early childhood
from the book How languages are learned
Submitted to: Dr.Saboor
Discipline: BS English 6th semester

GC WOMEN UNIVERSITY SIALKOT

Multiple choice questions:
1.Earliest opponent of the view that children's language built on their cognitive
development............. .
a) skinner b) Chomsky c) Jean Piaget
2.The Hypothesis that animals, including humans are genetically programmed to
acquire certain kinds of knowledge and skills at specific time in life................. .
a) connectionist approach b) critical period hypothesis c) behaviourism
3. The close relationship between children cognitive development and their
acquisition of language especially emphasized by.................... .
a) Carl Roger. b) B. F skinner c) Dan Slobin
4.The deaf users of American sign language were studied by................... .
a) Elissa Newport. b) Edward Thorndike c) Ivan Pavlov
5.Chomskyan ideas are often linked with................ .
a) Behaviourism b) Critical period hypothesis c) Simultaneous bilingualism
6.Bilingualism was influential in................ .
a) 1940 & 1950 b) 1930 & 1940 c) 1960 & 1940
7.Cross sectional research is the description of....................... in child learning
patterns.
a) Difference b) Similarities c) both
8.Language acquisition does not acquire separate module of the mind but can be
explained in terms of learning in general.............. .
a) Behaviourism b) Connectionism c) None
9.In this research child who learn more than one language are referred to as..............
.
a) bilinguals. b) Simultaneous bilingual c) both
10.Wallace Lambert called the loss of one language in learning other.................. .
a) Subtractive bilingualism. b) Simultaneous bilingualism c) Forgetting
11.Connectionists believe in:
a)language acquisition does not need separate module of the mind b)language can
be explained in terms of learning in general c) both
12.Vygotsky referred to this metaphorical place in which children could do more
than they would be capable of independently as:
a)interactive environment b)logical inferencing c)zone of proximal development
13.Chomsky argued that the behaviorist theory failed to account for:
a)the structure of language b)the logical problem of language acquisition c) both
14.The behaviorist perspective give more importance to :
a)child’s inner ability to learn language b)connectionism c)the environment
15.Wug test was developed by:
a)Dan Slobin (1940) b)Carl Roger(1960) c)Jean Berko Gleason(1950)