Adelit moved with his parents from Senegal to Brooklyn when he was 5 years old. Adelit knew French from Senegal, but as soon as he got to Brooklyn, he started learning English. Children learning a second language after mastering the first language illustrates __________.

A. sequential bilingualism
B. emergent literacy
C. simultaneous bilingualism
D. associative learning


Answer: A

Psychology

You might also like to view...

A major difference between insight therapies and behavior therapies is in their position about whether it's necessary or useful to seek out the origin of psychological difficulties. A compromise position might be that this kind of information is important for patients with some disorders, but not for patients with other disorders. Explain why this kind of information might be more helpful for

some kinds of patients than for others. What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The most effective way of predicting potential marital success (among the following) is knowing:

A. reasons for the marriage B. whether two people feel they are in love C. feelings of the couple's family D. interests of the couple

Psychology

The major criticisms of the information-processing approach include all of the following except that

A) it assumes that children do not understand conservation until middle childhood. B) the approach is based on "cold" logic and reasoning. C) it rarely examines how social interactions and emotions influence cognition. D) the concept of an executive processor has not been fully explained.

Psychology

The Supreme Court has recently ruled that it is forbidden to exercise peremptory challenges on the basis of religion.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Psychology