MCQ Bank
In second-language acquisition there is no critical age for__________.
- A) pragmatics
- B) syntax
- C) context
- D) semantics
Perceptual learning style is an approach to learning through the____________.
- A) skills
- B) practice
- C) five senses
- D) thinking
Deaf persons without language can_________.
- A) use words
- B) think
- C) speak
- D) utter few words
Closely linked to the concept of autonomy is the___________.
- A) skills
- B) learning awarness
- C) practice
- D) thinking
Compared to English, _________uses fewer nouns and permits noun ellipsis.
- A) French
- B) Spanish
- C) Dutch
- D) Korean
___________is the process whereby the rules and structures of a second language are explained to a learner.
- A) Expectation
- B) Exaptation
- C) Explication
- D) Extrapolation
_________ is “the system of principles, conditions and rules that are elements or properties of all human languages”.
- A) Functional grammar
- B) Universal grammar
- C) Descriptive grammar
- D) Traditional grammar
Identifying your preferred learning style can be a useful way to _________learning opportunities.
- A) optimize
- B) hinder
- C) impede
- D) decrease
Chomsky argues that the ability to acquire language is __________.
- A) practiced
- B) learned
- C) skilled
- D) innate
Field independent (FI) style enables you to distinguish parts from a ________.
- A) a whole
- B) piece
- C) other parts
- D) fragments
There are __________types of social structures which can affect the acquisition of second languages.
- A) three
- B) six
- C) four
- D) five
Tolerance for ambiguity is one of the learner’s __________that a learner adopts to act in a uncertain conditions.
- A) styles
- B) psyche
- C) cognition
- D) ideas
Linguistic stimulus (a word or sentence) elicits a "mediating" response that is_____________.
- A) cognitivistic
- B) environmental
- C) self-stimulating
- D) behavioristic
The classroom is __________other social life.
- A) restricted to
- B) mixed with
- C) isolated from
- D) integrated with
Variables related to mind and psyche are called ___________ variables.
- A) cognitive
- B) successive
- C) imitative
- D) perceptive
The Korean learners, in contrast to__________ distinguish between tight and loose containment.
- A) English
- B) French
- C) Dutch
- D) Spanish
In second-language acquisition there is no critical age for__________.
- A) semantics
- B) syntax
- C) context
- D) pragmatics
The learning of __________will determine or influence the way we understand our culture and the world.
- A) articles
- B) language
- C) research
- D) textbooks
The basic premise of ___________method was that second language learning should be more like first language learning.
- A) quasi direct
- B) direct
- C) indirect
- D) semi direct
Deep dyslexia is a form of dyslexia that disrupts __________ processes.
- A) writing
- B) thinking
- C) reading
- D) speaking