MCQ Bank
Which of the following components is added into the category of ‘sociolinguistic knowledge’ in Bachman’s 2010 model of CLA?
- A) Knowledge of dialects/varieties
- B) Knowledge of natural or idiomatic expressions
- C) Knowledge of register
- D) Knowledge of genre
According to Baker (2006), “BICS is said to occur when there are _________for language delivery.”
- A) native speakers
- B) proper curricula
- C) contextual supports and props
- D) designed laboratories
The CUP Model is represented with a/an__________.
- A) vertically placed arrow
- B) taxonomical graph
- C) dual iceberg metaphor
- D) horizontally placed arrow
In the context of symbolic competence, what words do and what they reveal about mind defines the concept of symbolic ________.
- A) power
- B) competence
- C) representation
- D) action
The ultimate goal of SLA research is to enable learners face _____________.
- A) theory of language
- B) all of the given options
- C) real-world challenges
- D) grammatical challenges
BICS stands for________.
- A) basic international communication skills
- B) basic individual communication skills
- C) basic interpersonal communication skills
- D) basic intrapersonal communication skills
According to MaLaughlin’s ‘automaticity and restructuring’, automatic processing doesn’t require ______________.
- A) training
- B) structure
- C) teachers
- D) attention
Five main characteristics of research within applied linguistics are: empirical, logical, reductive, planned, and____________.
- A) speculative
- B) correlative
- C) non-relative
- D) imaginative
McLaughlin uses the twin concepts of ________to describe the cognitive processes involved in SLA.
- A) langue and parole
- B) first and second language
- C) automaticity and restructuring
- D) learning and acquisition
According to Davies and Elder (2007), applied linguistics deals with determining ___________ involving language.
- A) social roles
- B) all of the given options
- C) social status
- D) social problems
__________occurs when an associative connection between a certain kind of input and some output pattern occurs.
- A) Learning
- B) Acquisition
- C) Automaticity
- D) Linguistic error
McLaughlin proposed the concepts of controlled and automatic processing as _________ to conscious/unconscious dichotomy.
- A) substitutes
- B) None of the given options
- C) contrary
- D) equal
English is a global language with almost _______ speakers.
- A) 3 billion
- B) 2.5 billion
- C) 1.5 billion
- D) 1 billion
_______ proposed a distinction between implicit and explicit learning.
- A) Grant
- B) Grabe
- C) Rod Ellis
- D) Celece-Murcia
___________ is defined by Tomlin & Villa as “a particular state of mind in which an individual has undergone a specific subjective experience of some cognitive content”.
- A) Behavior formation
- B) Awareness
- C) Thinking
- D) Cognition
According to Corder, _______ refers to what is available to be utilized by language learners for SLA.
- A) mother tongue
- B) language input
- C) language output
- D) linguistic competence
Comprehensible input, comprehensible output and frequencies have been integral parts of ________ research.
- A) all of the given options
- B) first language acquisition
- C) first Language learning
- D) second language acquisition
Implicit learning refers to the ability of acquiring new knowledge without intending to do so and does not involve ___________.
- A) thinking
- B) deliberate efforts
- C) decisions
- D) calculations
According to McLaughlin, (1987), "automatic processing is a ___________ process and once it occurs it is difficult to suppress or alter”.
- A) complex
- B) slow
- C) medium
- D) rapid
Applied linguistics is mainly concerned with the meaningful applications of researchers’ proposed solutions to existing problems related to__________.
- A) competence
- B) parole
- C) language use
- D) langue