MCQ Bank
Which of the following theories proposes ‘Observable behavior’ as a core factor that influences learning?
- A) Constructivist
- B) Behaviorist
- C) Cognitivist
- D) Nativist
Which of the following theories believes on integration of linguistic, psychological, and sociological paradigms?
- A) Constructivism
- B) Behaviourism
- C) Genarativism
- D) Monitor Model
Focusing on reinforcement and desired behaviours of learners in a language classroom is key feature of _______ approach.
- A) behaviourist
- B) generativist
- C) congnitivist
- D) constructivist
According to Long’s interaction hypothesis, participation in conversation with __________ is necessary for L2 acquisition.
- A) native speakers
- B) Both of the given options
- C) non-native speakers
- D) None of the given options
Pienemann (1998) understands development as a process in which the development of more complex structures _____________.
- A) becomes incomplete
- B) happens gradually
- C) all of the given options
- D) is slowed down
Long proposed the Interaction Hypothesis while _______________ investigated it empirically.
- A) Pica
- B) Schmidt
- C) None of the given options
- D) Chomsky
According to Towell and Hawkins (1994), _________ research has to deal both with the learner's attempts to learn the system and the learner's attempts to learn to use the system.
- A) SLA
- B) all of the given options
- C) ELT
- D) ESP
Procedural knowledge is the performance of _______ knowledge.
- A) Formal
- B) Declarative
- C) Symbolic
- D) New
For language generation, Processability Theory (PT) relies on _________ which refers to language processing in real time.
- A) Behaviorism
- B) Levelt's Model
- C) Generativism
- D) Cognitivist approach
Universal Grammar ___________ but does not determine the language learning process.
- A) changes
- B) enhances
- C) conditions
- D) restricts
Social and psychological integration of the learner with the target language group is termed as ________.
- A) Attrition
- B) Accommodation
- C) Assimilation
- D) Acculturation
Learners exposed to SLA after the age of ________ can encounter “multiplicity of knowledge sources.”
- A) fourteen years
- B) twelve years
- C) ten years
- D) seven years
Which of the following theories supports the role of memory in language learning?
- A) Cognitivist
- B) Behaviourist
- C) Constructivist
- D) Monitor Model
According to Schmidt, learning requires ____________.
- A) L2 proficiency
- B) L1 proficiency
- C) attention and low level awareness
- D) competence and performance
Cognitivists focus on _________, including how people perceive, think, remember, learn, solve problems, and direct their attention to one stimulus rather than another.
- A) L2 learning
- B) behavior patterns
- C) L1 acquisition
- D) mental processes
Towell and Hawkins’ model of SLA attempts to _______ internal UG-derived hypothesis concerning the mechanism that functions during the processes of language learning.
- A) recycle
- B) reconcile
- C) reinvigorate
- D) speed up
Pica has ___________the IH by emphasizing the importance of the social relationship between participants as a determinant of interactional modifications.
- A) debilitated
- B) extended
- C) delimited
- D) transformed
Which of the following theories do not support the role of memory in language learning?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Behaviourist
- C) Constructivist
- D) Monitor Model
Which of the following theories asserts that much of the capacity for language learning in humans is ‘innate’?
- A) Behaviorist
- B) Cognitivist
- C) Nativist
- D) Constructivist
According to Behaviorism, learners are a ____________ who learn through stimuli and response.
- A) single class
- B) commodity
- C) blank slate
- D) all of the given options