Question 1
A teacher reads a picture book to a kindergarten class about Samantha, who is visually impaired. At one point she wants to know whether everyone can see the pictures and asks: "Is Samantha easy to see here?" "No," the children all respond, even those sitting in front. Which of the following language limitations may explain this?
◦ inability to understand passives
◦ egocentrism in language reception
◦ inability to coordinate multiple word meanings
◦ inability to interpret clauses
Question 2
A Spanish-speaking child in an English classroom is heard to frequently say, "I no like math." Over time the child alters the sentence to, "I not like math." How might this change in the form of this sentence be interpreted?
◦ The child has begun to apply the syntactic rules of Spanish to his English sentences.
◦ The child is showing increased confusion about the syntactic rules.
◦ The child has gradually advanced in his construction of negative structures in English.
◦ The child is engaging in semantic experimentation in struggling to learn English.
English Mastiff
English Shepherd
Charles Darwin may be dead and gone but a recent write-in campaign has pitted him against Republican
Measuring a child’s height with a measuring stick
English Sole
Math work