A Very Important Reason for Passage of the GI Bill

question 38

Multiple Choice

A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

• A) keep men in the military beyond their term of enlistment
• B) spend surplus funds in the federal budget
• C) help Roosevelt get reelected
• D) prevent the return of the Depression
• E) create a bureaucracy to administer it

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Definitions:

Metalinguistic Awareness

The capacity to think about and reflect upon the nature and functions of language, including an understanding of its rules and conventions.

Psycholinguistic Skills

The cognitive processes involved in understanding and producing language.

Linguistic Relativity

The hypothesis that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, suggesting language shapes thought and experiences.

Over-regularisation

A phenomenon in language acquisition where individuals, especially children, apply standard grammatical rules too widely, leading to errors.