Language Development

Question 1

Students learn language by __________with people around them.

Answer 1

Interacting

Question 2

The interpreter ________ the student’s ability to learn language by exposing them to fluent use of it.

Answer 2

Facilitates

Question 3

What should an interpreter do to understand a student’s language development?

Answer 3

An interpreter should review the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) with a professional to understand the student’s current level of functioning.

Question 4

True or False: Interpreters must know the student’s expressive and receptive language skills, cognitive potential, and educational goals as outlined in the student’s IEP.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What impacts a student’s ability to learn new concepts?

Answer 5

A student’s language level, world knowledge, and vocabulary skills can impact their ability to learn new concepts.

Question 6

What is a common misconception about deaf or hard of hearing students’ language skills?

Answer 6

It is a misconception that they have problems learning language; the issue is often related to accessing language in their environment.

It is an environmental problem rather than a learning problem.

Question 7

What is the difference between conversational language and academic language?

Answer 7

Conversational language generally involves more turn-taking and shared experiences.

Academic language is more complex and provides fewer contexts for understanding the topic. It often includes longer monologues and complex vocabulary.

Question 8

What challenges do deaf and hard of hearing students face in learning language and concepts?

Answer 8

They are often learning language while also learning new concepts, which may require interpreters to explain concepts during interpretation.

This differs from hearing students who use language to learn concepts.

Question 9

Fill in the blank: The ability to have a conversation about daily events doesn’t mean that a student can understand _______.

Answer 9

academic language

Question 10

True or False: Gesturing is considered a linguistic form of communication.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

IEP

Answer 11

Individualized Education Program

Question 12

Is it a good idea for an interpreter to review the student’s IEP with a professional?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Language stimulates __________development.

Answer 13

Cognitive

Question 14

Language ____________ influences cognitive abilities.

Answer 14

Sophistication

Question 15

True or False: Language development in ASL does not parallel the development of spoken languages.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

True or False: If a student has the ability to have a conversation about daily events that means that the student can understand academic language in the classroom.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

At what age do students begin to produce their first words?

Answer 17

About 1 year of age.

Question 18

When do students start combining two words or signs into a sentence?

Answer 18

About age 2 years.

Question 19

At what age do students begin to produce complex language?

Answer 19

About 3 years of age.

Question 20

By what age are hearing students able to use English morphology correctly most of the time?

Answer 20

By 3 to 4 years of age.

Question 21

When are deaf students learning ASL able to use verb agreement correctly much of the time?

Answer 21

By 3 to 4 years of age.

Question 22

What type of language do students talk about during the early stages of language development?

Answer 22

What is here and now.

Question 23

What does decontextualized language refer to?

Answer 23

People and events that are not in the here and now.

Question 24

What is one of the earliest forms of decontextualized language?

Answer 24

The ability to talk about past events.

Question 25

When does metalinguistic development occur in relation to language acquisition?

Answer 25

Metalinguistic development is a later development.

Question 26

How do young students use prosody in language?

Answer 26

To help determine how to segment language at the word and sentence level.

Question 27

What happens to the language demands in textbooks around third grade?

Answer 27

They increase significantly in complexity of syntax and vocabulary.

Question 28

What is a characteristic of textbooks for third graders compared to earlier grades?

Answer 28

More text and fewer pictures.

Question 29

At what age do students still make numerous errors in the development of classifiers?

Answer 29

Until around 8 or 9 years of age.

Question 30

How does vocabulary change as students develop?

Answer 30

Their vocabulary becomes much larger.

Question 31

What do students make mistakes in while beginning to learn a language?

Answer 31

Pronouncing words and producing signs.

Question 32

What is essential for effective language learning?

Answer 32

A teacher understanding what students know and don't know.

Question 33

How do deaf and hard of hearing students with ASL as their first language typically learn English?

Answer 33

From reading

Question 34

Do hearing students typically need to be taught language?

Answer 34

No, except in special circumstances.

Question 35

What is the process through which students learn what words mean?

Answer 35

Through multiple exposures over time.

Question 36

Fill in the blank: Learning sign language will not interfere with a student's ability to learn _______.

Answer 36

speech.

Question 37

How do students learn language rules?

Answer 37

They become aware of the rule long after they have mastered it.

Question 38

What is the role of interaction in language development?

Answer 38

Interaction is essential for language development.

Question 39

How do students interact with each other compared to adults?

Answer 39

Students do not correct each other like adults do.

Question 40

What effect does the absence of adults have on students' use of language?

Answer 40

Students will be less inhibited in their use of language.

Question 41

True or False: Students do not learn words by learning a definition.

Answer 41

True

Question 42

True or False: Having an adult present during peer-to-peer interactions may alter the interaction.

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Why is the early detection of hearing loss critical?

Answer 43

Because it allows deaf and hard of hearing students to develop language that is more age appropriate when compared with their hearing peers

Question 44

True or False: The majority of deaf and hard of hearing students are born to hearing families who may not provide them access to a fluent language early in development.

Answer 44

True

Question 45

Interpreting for a student with a cochlear implant might mean what?

Answer 45

They may be receiving some of the teacher’s spoken message as well as the interpreted message.

Question 46

Is there a difference between students who had hearing loss before learning language and those who learned speech and language and then experienced hearing loss?

Answer 46

Yes

Question 47

True or False: When deaf and hard of hearing students are delayed in language that means that there is something wrong with the student.

Answer 47

False. It is typically because their environment has not provided them sufficient access to language.

Question 48

True or False: The student’s language use at home and at school are the same.

Answer 48

False

Question 49

How do student’s peers typically view them if they don’t have age-appropriate pragmatic skills?

Answer 49

They may view that student as social awkward.

Question 50

True or False: Sign systems designed to represent English are naturally developed languages.

Answer 50

False. They were developed by educators and the adult Deaf community generally doesn’t use them.

Question 51

What do educators believe about the use of visual English/signed English is English development?

Answer 51

That exposure to visual English/Signed English will facilitate English development, which is not proven to be the case. They also believe English signing is easier for hearing people to learn.

Question 52

What happens when interpreters invent signs?

Answer 52

The student’s linguistic system becomes different from other deaf peers, interpreters, and deaf adults. Also it may offend the deaf community.

Question 53

True or False: Iconicity in sign language does not make learning signs easier.

Answer 53

True

Question 54

Iconicity

Answer 54

The relationship of resemblance or similarity between the form of a sign and its meaning