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1、DiscussionQuestionsofSLAChapter1:Learningafirstlanguage1.Thinkofthreeorfour‘telegraphic’sentencesthatayoungchildmightproduce.ThesemaybeinEnglishoranotherlanguageyouknowwell.Howarethese‘littlesentences’similartothoseintheadultlanguage?Howaretheydifferent?Bothofsentencescontainthenece

2、ssarykeywords,especiallynouns,verbsandadjectives.But,telegraphicsentencesareshorter,andlackfunctionwords,inwhichgrammaticalelementsareoftenomittedorinsertedincorrectly,andsingle-clause.2.Researchershaveusedbothlongitudinalandcross-sectionalapproachestoinvestigatetheorderofacquisitio

3、nofgrammaticalmorphemesinEnglishbyyoungchildren.Describetheseapproachesinyourownwords.Whatarethechallengesandthepotentialbenefitsofeach?Cross-sectionalapproachstudiessubjectsatdifferentagesandstagesofdevelopment.Longitudinalapproachstudythesamelearner’soveraperiodoftime.Longitudinal

4、studyapproachtakesalotoftimeandareveryexpensiveandinconvenient.Meanwhilelongitudinalstudiestrackthesamepeople,avoiddifferencesofculturaldifferencesacrossgenerations,andmakeobservingchangesmoreaccurate.Whenitcomestocross-sectionalapproach,routinedatanotdesignedtoanswerthespecificques

5、tion,andothervariableswillaffecttherelationshipbetweenthecauseandeffect.Theuseofroutinelycollecteddataallowslargecross-sectionalstudiesinlargescale,andcostlesstotheresearcher.3.Whatisthe‘wugtest’?WhatdothefindingsfromthewugtesttellusaboutChildren’sdevelopinglanguage?Whatadvantagesdo

6、esthewugtesthaveoverstudiesthatobservechildren’slanguageinnaturalsettings?Canyouthinkofsomedisadvantages?“Wugtest”isdesignedasshowingstudentsmake-upwords,andblankfillingexercise,toexplorechildren’sknowledgeoflanguage.Byagefour,childrenhavemasteredthebasicstructureofthelanguage.Itcan

7、bedemonstratedthatchildrennotonlyknowalistofmemorizedwordpairs,butcanapplytheserulestowordswhichtheyhaveeverheardbefore.Theacquisitionofthemorecomplexgrammaticalstructuresofthelanguagerequiresadifferentsortofexplanation.4.Whatismetalinguisticawareness?Whyisitaprerequisiteforbeingabl

8、etounderstandmostjo