MOOC: Multilingual Education

Quiz 4

Early exposure to a second language is crucial for children to:

absorb the L2 sound system and so be able to reliably reproduce phonemic patterns and achieve native-like fluency

become bilingual (i.e. proficient in more than one language)

avoid making grammar errors as their language skills develop

Rich language input

derives mainly from multimedia sources

implies a high quality of language used in various socially interactive contexts

implies a high quantity of language used in the child’s home environment

Corrective feedback occurs when:

teachers modify their speech to simplify it, use repetitions, and vary their intonation

teachers support learners’ emerging interlanguage by providing missing words

teachers recast learners’ incorrect utterances to model correct usage of the TL