MCQ Bank
Language awareness believes that explicit instruction and focus on __________ leads to L2 acquisition.
- A) pronunciation
- B) vocabulary
- C) spelling
- D) form
The only tool that remains available is ______ as the learners struggle to learn L2.
- A) L2
- B) L4
- C) L1
- D) L3
Use of L1 in L2 classrooms enables the learners to make learning more _______.
- A) challenging
- B) vague
- C) difficult
- D) manageable
Humans interact through signs which are _______ & historically determined.
- A) psychologically
- B) culturally
- C) physically
- D) biologically
Learners’ ‘agency’ is embedded in their _______ histories.
- A) domestic
- B) emotional
- C) personal
- D) objective
Sociocultural theory emphasizes that there is a crucial link between ________ processes and sociocultural settings.
- A) physical
- B) mental
- C) emotional
- D) psychological
Drawing on L1, Language Awareness focuses on forms & functions of ________ language by exploiting a methodology that is reflexive, inductive, interactive & investigational.
- A) symbolic
- B) second
- C) national
- D) first
Language awareness empowers the learners to consolidate & systemize knowledge of L2 and become conscious of the relationship between _______ languages.
- A) same
- B) different
- C) symbolic
- D) written
Language awareness is predicated on the assumption of _______ between acquisition and learning.
- A) interference
- B) interface
- C) inference
- D) typeface
Language awareness accords value to learners’ _______ background and their L1, and capitalizes learners’ knowledge & experience of L1.
- A) financial
- B) psychological
- C) social
- D) political
Learners are more likely to switch to L1 in their ________ speech when confronted with a difficult task.
- A) political
- B) explicit
- C) emotional
- D) inner
Language awareness emphasizes a person’s sensitivity and _______ awareness of language’s nature and role in human life.
- A) unconscious
- B) suspicious
- C) conscious
- D) subconscious
Long's ______ refers to participation in conversation with native speakers.
- A) Interpersonal hypothesis
- B) Interactive hypothesis
- C) Interaction hypothesis
- D) Intrapersonal hypothesis
In his updated version of Interaction Hypothesis (IH), Long (1996) emphasizes on the learner’s __________ when she/he is interactionally involved in modified output.
- A) LAD
- B) external factors
- C) internal mechanisms
- D) performance
Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and their tedious drill is the viewpoint of ________.
- A) Monitor Model
- B) Behaviourism
- C) Genarativism
- D) Constructivism
Processability Theory was proposed by ______________.
- A) None of the given options
- B) Manfred Pienemann
- C) Long
- D) Schmidt
Ellis (1991) states that Comprehensible Input is necessary for____________.
- A) L2 acquisition
- B) L1 acquisition
- C) L2 learning
- D) L1 learning
Which of the following theories support the role of memory in language learning?
- A) Cognitivism
- B) Behaviourist
- C) Socio-cultural theory
- D) Generativist
______ proposed a distinction between controlled and automatic processing.
- A) McDonough
- B) McLaughlin
- C) Nunan
- D) Schmidt
To conclude, the interaction hypothesis is a theory of _______ which refers to the development of language proficiency through face-to-face interaction and communication.
- A) L2 interference
- B) L1 acquisition
- C) L2 acquisition
- D) L1 interference