CHAPTER 7
Language Development
AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTS
1. Students should prepare an annotated beginning list of their favorite picture books. The text offers
suggestions of excellent picture books, but unless students read them and do a brief summary, they are
unlikely to use and enjoy them with children.
2. Learning Activity 8 in the Instructor’s Manual can serve as an authentic assessment.
SUGGESTED TEST QUESTIONS
1. There is very little relationship between language and thought.
2. Early language development is highly dependent upon imitation; therefore children need good
models.
Fill–in-the-Blank Questions
1. The set of rules for creating or understanding the sentence is called .
2. The ability to perceive and understand what is heard is called .
3. is the instrument of thought, personal expression, and social communication.
4. refers to the meaning of words.
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Vygotsky, the Russian cognitive psychologist, believed
a. it is the child’s experiences that influence formation of language.
b. it is children‘s language that enables them to create thoughts.
c. it is understanding of language that enables children to create oral speech.
d. children’s language development proceeds according to their individual rates.
2. The comprehensive approach to literacy development
I. integrates language and literacy learning into all parts of the curriculum.
II. eliminates phonics as an approach or technique to teaching reading.
III. utilizes quality children’s literature in reading in addition to basal readers.
IV. encourages teachers to read aloud at least once a day to young children.
V. encourages teachers to develop young children’s skill and proficiency in a second
language.
VI. encourages children to write and read about their experiences.
a. All of the above b. I, IV, V, VI
c. I, II, IV, V d. I, III, IV, VI
3. Which of the following are involved in literacy and language development?
I. listening
II. speaking
III. reading
IV. writing
a. I, II b. III, IV
c. I, III d. II, IV
e. I, II, III, IV
1. Give some of the guidelines for a teacher to help foster the child’s development of language.
2. Share specific ways to enhance and develop oral language in the early childhood grades.
Chapter 7
Multiple-Choice
