T or F. Morphosyntax skills should only be addressed through spoken discourse.

• A. Not Applicable
• B. True
• C. False
• D. Not sure

Answer: (C)

Morphosyntax covers how words morph to show meaning (like tense, number, and agreement) and how sentences are built to show relationships between ideas. These skills show up in more than just spoken language—they’re visible in writing, reading, and overall literacy, as well as in listening and speaking tasks. If you addressed morphosyntax only through spoken discourse, you’d miss how these forms appear and matter in written language and in tasks that require reading and writing.

In practice, assessment and intervention should integrate both spoken and written language contexts. For example, you’d work on tense and agreement in conversation, then also practice using those forms in writing and in reading comprehension tasks that rely on recognizing and producing correct grammatical forms. A learner might use correct grammar in speech but omit or misapply morphological markers in writing, or struggle with complex sentence structures in reading.

So, the statement is false: morphosyntax skills should be addressed across multiple modalities and contexts, not solely through spoken discourse.