MCQ Bank
Which of the following words is logically compositional?
- A) Behead
- B) Doghouse
- C) Scarecrow
- D) Befriend
Which of the following can be the subject of a sentence?
- A) Verb
- B) Noun
- C) Adverb
- D) Determiner
According to English morphology, the word ‘fish’ will take ______ morpheme when it becomes plural.
- A) -s
- B) -es
- C) -ies
- D) none
The smallest linguistic unit with a grammatical function is known as a/an ______.
- A) morpheme
- B) grapheme
- C) phoneme
- D) lexeme
The process of creating one lexeme from another is called ______.
- A) inflection
- B) derivation
- C) borrowing
- D) splitting
Which of the following linguists proposed that language is a system of signs?
- A) Ferdinand de Saussure
- B) Noam Chomsky
- C) David Crystal
- D) Peter Trudgill
The phenomenon whereby a language becomes intolerant of useless elements and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role is called ______.
- A) linguistic exaptation
- B) language death
- C) language shift
- D) linguistic endangerment
Which of the following is a function word?
- A) Bargain
- B) Was
- C) Sleep
- D) Girl
Which of the following can be the subject of a sentence?
- A) Verb
- B) Noun
- C) Adverb
- D) Determiner
Items such as ‘the’ and ‘for’ which are phonologically dependent on adjacent words are called ______.
- A) clitics
- B) proclitics
- C) enclitics
- D) None of the given options
The two basic approaches to morphological analysis are ‘analysis’ and ‘______’.
- A) synthesis
- B) application
- C) method
- D) reflection
What is the origin of the word ‘morphology’?
- A) Greek
- B) Spanish
- C) French
- D) Russian
The criterion of authenticity indicates the need to develop learners' willingness to ___ but it also extends beyond the conditions believed important for acquisition.
- A) communicate
- B)
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- D)
It uses the skills of many people including materials writers, content editors, graphic designers, animators, videographers etc. while ___ professional software.
- A) Authoring
- B)
- C)
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The storyboard activity Jones and Fortes cue (1987) described was used by a group of students who sat together in front of a ___ in a computer lab.
- A) computer screen
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- C)
- D)
CALL developers need to be familiar with criteria for ___ which should be applied relative to a Particular context.
- A) evaluation
- B)
- C)
- D)
Results from many ___ environments show features of simplified or reduced registers such as omission of subject pronouns, articles, and the copula, as well as use of contractions and abbreviations.
- A) Computer mediated communication (CMC)
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- C)
- D)
___ evaluation offers a methodology for making systematic hypotheses about the benefits to be attained through CALL tasks.
- A) Empirical
- B)
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- D)
CALL research attempting such discourse analysis has examined learners' ___ language as they worked on CALL programs (e.g., Abraham & Liou, 1991), and findings have been mixed.
- A) oral
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- C)
- D)
CALL research attempting such ___ has examined learners' oral language as they worked on CALL programs (e.g., Abraham & Liou, 1991), and findings have been mixed.
- A) discourse analysis
- B)
- C)
- D)