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Aen 512: Language Handicap And Language Pathology Question Paper

Aen 512: Language Handicap And Language Pathology

Course:Master Of Arts In Linguistics

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2008

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF
ARTS IN LINGUSTICS
AEN 512: LANGUAGE HANDICAP AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

DATE: Wednesday 26th November, 2008

TIME: 2.00 p.m. ? 5.00 p.m.

INSTRUCTIONS
Answer question 1 and any other two (2) questions.

Q1.
Study the texts given below and then answer questions (a) ? (d) that follow:
(Text A is attached).
Text B ? A short composition (Language Development)

Today is Wednesday.

Today the Ticha brot

Motersical and the motersi
cal is prite and the
motersical is new and it kost
a lot of mone. Yesterday it
Woz ar program and we
Sang about the letl
rabets.
and about the snack and
it Woz fan and I liat it. Christina

2

Text C ? A description of a picnic scene (language disorder)

Must be a camp somewhere in Naivasha. It?s
a family affair, dog, little boy, sailors, dog and
family. People been up in that area before. Like the area. Lunch basket is
open. So they must have traveled somewhere. To these, could be carrying
things to that part of Nairobi, I don?t know. Evidently, it is a happy
family, even the dog. I don?t see a cat. It is probably a lunch time
campsite. They make them up there ? sometime for rowing. It is probably
a young doctor. And they are spending their annual leave down here. It
was back in 1985 too.
(a)
Name the possible producers of the language entailed in Texts A,
B and C.
[3 marks]
(b)
Provide a grammatical analysis of
(i)
Text B

[8 marks]
(ii)
Text C

[8 marks]
(c)
Explain the possible sources of the writing in Texts A and B.
[2 marks]

(d)
(i)
Select and describe three macrostruture features in Text C.

[6 marks]
(ii)
Explain the possible reasons for the incoherence in Text C.
[3 marks]
2.
a)
Define the terms given below (1 mark each)
i)
language
ii)
speech
iii)
dysfluency
iv)
language pathology
v)
language disorder assessment
b)
Describe how the socio-economic status of the mother and gestation
period of an infant may result in language disability.
[15 marks]

3

3.
a)
Give a precise description of any key government policy and related
implementation strategies in either early language development or

language learning in education.

[8 marks]
b)
For the policy and related implementation strategies identified in (a)
above, explain

(i)
its implications for early childhood education.
[4 marks]
(ii)
persons without competence in English and Kiswahili in formal
contexts.

[4 marks]

(iii)
language learning in multilingual environments.
[4 marks]
4.
a)
?There are various different ways of managing speech-sound production
problems?. Discuss.

[8 marks]
b)
Explain some three known factors that contribute to the occurrence of
speech-sound disorder in under four-year old children. Illustrate your
answer with adequate examples.

[12 marks]
5.
a)
Briefly describe persons identified as follows:
(i)
Child autistics
(ii)
Adult aphasics
(iii)
Dyslexics
(iv)
Hearing disordered

[8 marks]
b)
Give an adequate outline of a linguistic assessment tool for a 7 year old
dyslexic child.

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