MCQ Bank
Which of the following is a process in which changes in a group’s language, culture and system of values happen through interaction ‘Select with the the corect other?
- A) Acculturation
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Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, had its first grammar written in.
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The ___ competence pertains to the knowledge of conventions for cohesion and coherence and rhetorical organization.
- A) Textual
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Surface structure is the aspect of description that determines the form of sentences.
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In Haugen’s model, ‘collaboration’ refers to the scale of the utilization in__.
- A) Writing
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Children still show greater comprehension than at the telegraphic stage.
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All existing linguistic systems play an equally important role in the acquisition process of a target language.
- A) Cross Linguistic Influence
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One important source of that enrichment has been the journal Language Learning, published from the university of.
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___ competence is to know how to recognize and repair communication breakdowns, how to work around gaps in one's knowledge of the language.
- A) Strategic
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Descriptive linguistics is closely allied with the.
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The first linguistic system to be affected by first language attrition is the ___.
- A) Lexical Attrition
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In functional linguistics, the concern is with language as a means of.
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Which of the following is a process in which changes in a group's language, culture and system of values happen through interaction with the other?
- A) Acculturation
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Which of the following errors occurs when the learner is unaware of the existence of a particular rule in the target language?
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According to Chomsky, competence is the ideal speaker/hearer, idealized but not a ___ who would have a complete knowledge of language.
- A) real person
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The analytical study of language began around 500 BC in Greece and.
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According to ___ when one loses its reproductive fitness it ultimately dies out.
- A) sociobiology
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Descriptive language focuses on the forms taken by a particular language at a given point in its development.
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The historical-structural approach is not perfect, and behind its claimed critical stance may lurk ideologies and group ___.
- A) interests
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Who among the following say that ‘in a three-year-old child “grammatical complexity of utterances is roughly that of colloquial adult language’?
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