Author Question: Message-oriented children prefer to use language to represent things in the environment. Indicate ... (Read 89 times)

frankwu · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Message-oriented children prefer to use language to represent things in the environment.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

American middle-class mothers see naming objects as an intelligent way to use language, but mothers in some other cultures might see naming objects as talking to no purpose. This is evidence

a. of the expressive bias in English language learning
b. that language learning is more highly valued in middle class America
c. of a cultural difference that may interact with individual strategies in language learning
d. that the language environment is ultimately unimportant in language learning, since children in all cultures learn to name objects in their surroundings