Filling the gaps (with JCloze)

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Here you have a filling the gaps exercise I've done with my students. It is a text by Chomsky related to English language learning.

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Chomsky about language learning

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Noam believes that are born with an inherited to learn any human . He claims that certain linguistic structures which children use so accurately must be already imprinted on the child’s . Chomsky believes that every child has a ‘language device’ or LAD which encodes the major principles of a language and its structures into the child’s brain. Children have then only to learn new and apply the syntactic structures from the LAD to form sentences. Chomsky points out that a child could not possibly learn a language through alone because the language spoken around them is highly – adult’s speech is often broken up and even sometimes ungrammatical. Chomsky’s applies to all languages as they all contain nouns, verbs, consonants and vowels and children appear to be ‘hard-wired’ to acquire the grammar. Every language is extremely , often with subtle distinctions which even native speakers are unaware of. However, all children, regardless of their intellectual ability, become fluent in their native language within five or six years.

From http://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/chomsky/