MCQ Bank
The acronym GIDS stands for ___________.
- A) Graded Intergenerational Disrupted Scale
- B) Graded Intra-generational Disrupted Scale
- C) Graded intra-national Disrupted Scale
- D) Graded International Disrupted Scale
At which age, bilingual children can choose to speak one language or the other?
- A) Three years
- B) Four years
- C) Two years
- D) One year
Who can acquire an additional language unconsciously without even thinking about it?
- A) Adults
- B) Elders
- C) Children
- D) Infants
Which of the following is NOT true for a child's bilingual development?
- A) Acceptance for mistakes
- B) Visual materials
- C) Simple communicative needs
- D) Higher expectations
According to Kaplan and Baldauf (1997), if we are using any language in education, we should know their ____ in the curriculum.
- A) complexity
- B) design
- C) status
- D) role
If language development is not a choice, it is ______.
- A) not obligatory
- B) obligatory
- C) temporary
- D) important
Language shift ultimately causes language _________.
- A) death
- B) revitalization
- C) barrier
- D) diversity
What is the status of language ideology in Pakistan?
- A) More prestige to Punjabi
- B) More prestige to English
- C) More prestige to Sindhi
- D) More prestige to Urdu
Which of the following is the symbol for national identity in Pakistan?
- A) Persian
- B) Urdu
- C) English
- D) Punjabi
Which of the following is the example of formal learning context?
- A) Market
- B) Home
- C) Radio
- D) School
The imposition of certain languages in schools is a political and _________ decision.
- A) social
- B) ideological
- C) cultural
- D) religious
Language codes are _____________.
- A) equal
- B) not fixed
- C) static
- D) fixed
A ________________ is generally taught to students in the schools.
- A) standard
- B) creole
- C) pidgin
- D) native
The creoles are lexically and structurally ________________ in nature.
- A) complex
- B) easy
- C) simple
- D) artless
The role of language ____________ is to legitimize a language.
- A) policy
- B) learning
- C) construction
- D) academics
Paralinguistic cues ____________ the communication.
- A) hinder
- B) facilitate
- C) hamper
- D) obstruct
Schools legitimize _______.
- A) smoking
- B) grouping
- C) classes
- D) ideologies
There are very few countries in the world that can be considered linguistically ___________.
- A) s nonuniform
- B) heterogeneous
- C) disparate
- D) homogenous
What does the term IRE stand for?
- A) initiation response education
- B) initiation reason evaluation
- C) initiation response evaluation
- D) initiation reason education
The dominance of English language is due to _______ .
- A) globalization
- B) hegemony
- C) human nature
- D) illiteracy