MCQ Bank
Defining the research question is a crucial step.
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David (1997) regards planning as plotting of a course of.
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Who among the following collected the very first steps of language in children in his article ‘Language Growth and Maturation’?
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Which of the following types of linguistic transfers considers all of the previously known languages to play an equally important role?
- A) Target Language Acquisition (TLA)
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Applied linguistics is a methodology in itself, because it is concerned with problems in which central role.
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Linguistic theories based on the notion of competence have been criticized for being too.
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The revolutionary attempt of Chomsky in linguistics starts from his concept of grammar.
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Which of the following is a form of language loss that affects the speaker's ability to produce their native language with their native accent?
- A) Phonological
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Who among the following is known as arguably the first descriptive linguist?
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Who among the following says: Language planning is “an attempt to interfere deliberately with a language or one ofits varieties”?
- A) Wardhaugh
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At what age children begin to imitate activities and utterances from the people around them?
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Language planning can create as many problems as it intends or claims to ___.
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The rules that express the relation of deep and surface structures in sentences are called.
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According to Howes (1983) during preschool years, children begin to differentiate between friends and ___.
- A) playmates
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An etic study is often known as a/an study.
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Name the type of linguistic transfer where only the primary language plays a role in the acquisition process of a foreign one.
- A) Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
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The analytic study of language began around 500 BC in Greece and.
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Who among the following says: “Language planning is usually seen as an explicit choice among alternatives”?
- A) Fasold
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Children are exposed to imperfect language from the adults around them and yet they learn language.
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Planners deal with issues that affect organizations and societies (or polities) in which human beings.
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