MCQ Bank
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
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