Author Question: Imagine that an elementary teacher has two classes, one monolingual and the other bilingualthough ... (Read 53 times)

abern · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Imagine that an elementary teacher has two classes, one monolingual and the other bilingualthough their other characteristics are similar. The bilingual class is more likely to

a. have a better understanding of the structure of their first language.
b. believe that a moon must be called moon; it could not have another name.
c. have difficulty with the pragmatic aspects of language.
d. perform poorly on tests of nonverbal intelligence.

Question 2

Imagine that a young girl is describing how people must add a term such as -ed if they want to form a past tense. Her description shows that she has competence in

a. semantics.
b. pragmatics.
c. meta-analysis.
d. metalinguistics.