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

According to free morpheme constraint, a speaker can make an intra-sentential switch only if a constituent is not a ________ morpheme.

• A) functional
• B) lexical
• C) bound
• D) free

Warren Hastings, Governor of India from 1774 to________ , used indigenization as a means of governance

• A) 1782
• B) 1785
• C)
• D)

____________ cue gives hints to the listeners about the interpretation of the upcoming discourse.

• A) Modification
• B) Textualization
• C)
• D)

___________ is a well-recognized phenomenon in the speech of bilingual or multilingual people.

• A) Diglossia
• B) Code switching
• C) Code mixing
• D) Dialect

____________, being a vehicle of Western ideas, would Anglicise the Indian elite which would be loyal to the British.

• A) Urdu
• B) Sanskrit
• C) Persian
• D) English