MCQ Bank
In United Kingdom, English is spoken by ___________ percent of the population over the age of three.
- A) 93
- B) 96
- C) 98
- D) 94
Black English in the United States is a variety in the late stages of ___.
- A) decreolization
- B) pidginization
- C) all of the given options
- D) creolization
Which of the following languages is the main lingua franca, and is spoken by everybody in Galim?
- A) Hausa
- B) Fula
- C) Chamba
- D) Nizaa
Languages of Galim can be divided into ___ groups.
- A) six
- B) five
- C) three
- D) four
Choose the correct option.
In ________ the necessity of using English has overpowered antipathy towards English and English speakers.
- A) Iceland
- B) England
- C) Britain
- D) Ireland
Language shift, language transfer, language replacement and _____ are all used as alternative terms.
- A) language assimilation
- B) Language death
- C) language desertion
- D) cognitive assimilation
Fishman (1991) asserts that a typical case of language shift can happen over ___ generations.
- A) six
- B) three
- C) five
- D) four
Creolization can take place at any point during the ___’s life cycle; it can be any stage ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin.
- A) pidgin
- B) dialect
- C) creole
- D) language
According to Crystal, there are more speakers of English as second or other language than as a ___ language.
- A) third
- B) fifth
- C) first
- D) fourth
Being a native speaker gives a sense of community, and with that a sense of______.
- A) accompany
- B) ideology
- C) identity
- D) power
Which of the following variations occurs in both spoken and written Standard English?
- A) Grammatical
- B) Accent
- C) Pronunciation
- D) Phonological
The creation of a standard variety of any language is very much a _____ one.
- A) sociocultural
- B) social
- C) cultural
- D) sociopolitical
Standard language is disseminated via the media and _____.
- A) school
- B) articles
- C) culture
- D) gender
The meaning of words is _________in origin.
- A) idealistic
- B) skeptical
- C) conceptual
- D) linguistic
Both Sapir and Whorf agreed that it is our _________that determines our language.
- A) culture
- B) self
- C) mind
- D) thinking
The learning of __________will determine or influence the way we understand our culture and the world.
- A) research
- B) articles
- C) textbooks
- D) language
__________focuses on grammatical rules and memorization.
- A) Generative method
- B) Classical method
- C) Modern method
- D) Functional method
Language acquisition starts in very _________childhood.
- A) late
- B) early
- C) mature
- D) middle
Incorporating SB1 into ____________can be found around the world.
- A) family
- B) environment
- C) job place
- D) language classroom
Anthropological research claim that adult learners can perfectly acquire second language after the age of__________.
- A) thirty years
- B) early childhood
- C) puberty
- D) forty years