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Applied linguistic 2001
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Fragen in diesem Quiz (50)
101. The view of first language acqusition (FLA) as represented in a model by Chomsky (1965) is the following: ? -> LAD -> G - What is the missing component?
- AA. Primary Linguistic Data
- BB. Universal Grammar
- CC. General Cognitive Mechanism
- DD. Linguistic Competence
202. The capacity to understand and produce language is concentrated for most children in
- AA. the left brain hemisphere
- BB. both hemispheres
- CC. the right brain hemisphere
- DD. brain areas not investigated yet
303. Interference is thought to be the result of
- AA. Negative transfer
- BB. Fossilization
- CC. Backsliding
- DD. Proactive inhibition
404. Which personality feature is part of the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
- AA. Anxiety
- BB. Empathy
- CC. Risk-taking
- DD. Inhibition
505. According to the Capability Continuum Model of SLA (Tarone 1988), we can predict that the use of the third person singular -s will be most frequent in the following contexts
- AA. simple and careful
- BB. simple and vernacular
- CC. complex and careful
- DD. complex and vernacular
606. Chunks of language that are stored as complete or partially analysed units are called:
- AA. formulas
- BB. prototypes
- CC. illocutionary acts
- DD. vertical constructions
707. A model of language that views L2 acquisition as involving a complex network of interconnections between units rather than rules is referred to as
- AA. processibility theory
- BB. the Modularity Model
- CC. parallel distibuted processing
- DD. Parameter-setting model
808. The process by which learners utilise discourse to help them construct structures which remain outside learners' competence is described as
- AA. inferencing
- BB. scaffolding
- CC. paraphrasing
- DD. hypothesis-testing
909. Which theory of language acquisition accepts the notion of 'poverty of the stimulus'?
- AA. Humanist
- BB. Error Analysis
- CC. Mentalist
- DD. Neurofunctional
1010. The use of 'writed' in place of 'wrote' is an example of
- AA. transfer
- BB. interference
- CC. overgeneralization
- DD. overuse
1111. The vernacular is the style in which
- AA. minimum attention is given to monitoring speech
- BB. maximum attention is given to monitoring speech
- CC. a learner uses the most comples linguistic forms
- DD. a learner uses the least complex linguistic forms
1212. Speech patterns of New Yorkers were examined by Labov (1970). Which of the following models of competence did he use?
- AA. homogeneous
- BB. heterogeneous
- CC. dual
- DD. none of the above
1313. Indicate the one individual learner factor which can be modified?
- AA. aptitude
- BB. age
- CC. learning style
- DD. motivation
1414. Rate and success of SLA seem to be strongly influenced by the age of the learner. Snow and Hoefnagel-Hohle (1978) found out that Duth L2 learners who learnt most rapidly were in the following age group:
- AA. 4 to 11 years
- BB. 12 to 15 years
- CC. 16 to 21 years
- DD. over 21
1515. A field-dependent person can be characterised as
- AA. analytic
- BB. inhibited
- CC. holistic
- DD. more successful in naturalistic SLA
1616. A sort of defensiveness associated with increased self-consciousness which discourages risk-taking necessary for obtaining input is referred to as
- AA. anomie
- BB. alienation
- CC. empathy
- DD. inhibition
1717. Which of the following statements about the nature of "motherease" is not true?
- AA. The way mothers talk to their children influences how correctly they use the language
- BB. The way mothers talk to their children influences how rapidly they acquire the language
- CC. Parents have a general idea of their child's linguistic ability
- DD. One of the main functions of 'motherease' is language teaching
1818. In the process of inferencing a new rule is
- AA. derived by means of transfer
- BB. derived by means of overgeneralisation
- CC. induced from the input
- DD. induced from the output
1919. When the learner has a problem locating the required item but decides to persevere (waiting, using semantic field or other languages), he uses:
- AA. co-operative strategies
- BB. non-cooperative strategies
- CC. reduction strategies
- DD. retrieval strategies
2020. Which of the following adjectives are marked?
(1) fast (2) slow (3) young (4) old- AA. (1) and (2)
- BB. (3) and (4)
- CC. (2) and (3)
- DD. (1) and (4)
2121. Which of the following is not one of the typological universals?
- AA. substantive
- BB. implicational
- CC. functional
- DD. formal
2222. What prediction can you make about the transfer from L1 to L2? (M) Marked (U) unmarked. What is X and Y?
- AA (X=U, Y=U)
- BB (X=M, Y=U)
- CC (X=U, Y=M)
- DD (X=M, Y=M)
2323. Consciousness-raising is a type of instruction designed to make a learner aware of
- AA. specific linguistic features
- BB. the setting of the target language
- CC. learners' needs
- DD. the nature of language learning
2424. Carroll distinguishes four components of foreign language aptitude. These are the following abilities: phonemic coding, inductive language learning, rote learning and
- AA. language processing
- BB. grammatical sensitivity
- CC. verbal intelligence
- DD. associative learning
2525. In Krashen's view aptitude pertains to
- AA. acquisition
- BB. learning
- CC. acquisition and learning
- DD. neither acquistion nor learning
2626. According to Cummins (1979), cognitive academic language proficiency is part of
- AA. LAD
- BB. verbal intelligence
- CC. FL aptitude
- DD. cognitive organizer
2727. Conscious application of rules to produce and understand the L2 is referred to as
- AA. induction
- BB. elaboration
- CC. deduction
- DD. association
2828. The learner replaces one L2 form with another (poodle>dog). This is the example of an achievement strategy referred to as
- AA. paraphrase
- BB. substitution
- CC. word coinage
- DD. convergence
2929. Memory strategies are usually classified as
- AA. direct
- BB. indirect
- CC. implicit
- DD. explicit
3030. Which of the following statements is not true?
- AA. Teachers low down their rate of speech when talking to learners
- BB. Teachers use more self-repetitions with beginning learners
- CC. Formal adjustments occur at all language levels
- DD. Ungrammatical speech modifications occur at all language levels
3131. The error in the sentence 'The boy broked the window' is an example of
- AA. omission
- BB. addition
- CC. misinformation
- DD. misordering
3232. Which theory explains SLA in terms of the degree of social nad psychological distance between a learner and the target language group?
- AA. Accommodation Model
- BB. The Acculturation Theory
- CC. Interface Position
- DD. Neurofunctional Theory
3333. Which of the following linguists views second language acquistion in terms of conversational strategies used to negotiate meaning in constructing a discourse?
- AA. Corder
- BB. Hatch
- CC. Rutherford
- DD. Ellis
3434. Which of the following linguists views second language acquistion in terms of a 'non-interface position'?
- AA. Tarone
- BB. Long
- CC. Krashen
- DD. Ellis
3535. Which of the following linguists views second language acqusition in terms of a 'variable competence model'?
- AA. Chomsky
- BB. Selinker
- CC. Larsen Freeman
- DD. Ellis
3636. The speaker-hearer's internalised grammar, according to Chomsky (1965), consists of
- AA. a genetically endowed acquisition device
- BB. a general cognivite mechanism
- CC. mental representation of linguistic rules
- DD. comprehension and production of language
3737. In mentalist theories of language acquisition, a set of innate linguistic principles which control the form which the sentences of any language can take are referred to as
- AA. primary lingusitic data
- BB. Language Acquistion Device
- CC. the Universal Grammar
- DD. Lingusitic Competence
3838. In which of the following statements is the incremental nature of child's language acquistion evident?
- AA. Only homo sapiens is capable of language learning
- BB. Language exists as an independent faculty
- CC. The process of acquistion consists of hypothesis-formation
- DD. Knowledge of the grammatical system is build up in steps.
3939. The term interlanguage is also described as
- AA. regressive competence
- BB. restructuring device
- CC. trnasitional competence
- DD. capability continuum
4040. According to Selinker (poprawione na Lenneberg), adult learners successfully achieve native-speaker proficiency by
- AA. reactivating the latent language structure
- BB. overcoming the age of resonance
- CC. avoiding proactive inhibition
- DD. employing communiaction strategies
4141. Language-learner language is permeable (Corder 1967), which means that it is
- AA. predictable
- BB. open to improvement
- CC. idiosyncratic
- DD. static
4242. The comprehension of the system of beliefs and values shared by the TL group participants is part of
- AA. pragmatic competence
- BB. acculturation
- CC. situational context
- DD. pidginization
4343. When a speaker uses a rule that belongs to an earlier stage of development, he is using a strategy know as
- AA. evasion
- BB. backsliding
- CC. back-formation
- DD. discourse repair
4444. The learner's ability to recover rules from memory and to use them spontaneously while processing utterances is known as
- AA. channel capacity
- BB. projection device
- CC. cognitive style
- DD. processibility device
4545. Which of the following statements about cognitive organizer is not true?
- AA. It is part of the learner's processing system
- BB. It is responsible for turning intake into output
- CC. It operates subconsiously
- DD. It is responsible for organising input into a system
4646. Some learners cease to develop while still short of target-language competence. This phenomenon is called
- AA. amnesia
- BB. atrophy
- CC. aphasia
- DD. fossilization
4747. Strategies that children use in L1 acquistion such as 'avoidance of exceptions' and 'rearrangement of linguistic units' (Slobin 1973) are referred to as
- AA. item acquisition
- BB. system learning
- CC. operating principles
- DD. parallel development
4848. What is accessibility hierarchy?
- AA. The ranking of grammatical morphemes according to the accuracy with thich they occur.
- BB. The ranking of grammatical morphemes according to when each morpheme is acquired
- CC. The identification by the learner of a function performed by means of a particular form
- DD. An implicational ordering of relative pronoun functions in terms of their degree of markedness
4949. The L2 knowledge of which a learner is unaware and which he cannot verbalise is called
- AA. implicit
- BB. explicit
- CC. implied
- DD. metacognitive
5050. The process by which speakers make their speech similar to their interlocutors' speech is referred to as
- AA. divergence
- BB. accommodation
- CC. assimilation
- DD. convergence
- AA. divergence
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- test from 2001
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- Ros Agnieszka
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- English
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