MCQ Bank
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
Generativism calls the language learners as having a(n) _________ ability to learn language.
- A) acquired
- B) taught
- C) partial
- D) innate
According to Schmidt “subliminal language learning is ________”.
- A) impossible
- B) None of the given options
- C) less complex
- D) easy to tackle
According to Constructivism, people ________ their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiencing things and reflecting on their experiences.
- A) imitate
- B) construct
- C) segregate
- D) improve
According to Long’s Interaction Hypothesis (IH), interaction with ___________ is necessary for L2 acquisition.
- A) pidgin users
- B) native speakers
- C) creole users
- D) L2 speakers
In the context of symbolic competence, the discourse which reveals about social relations, memories, emotions, and aspirations is termed as symbolic _______.
- A) power
- B) competence
- C) representation
- D) action