MCQ Bank
Which of the following types of competence is the ability to interpret the social meaning of the choice of linguistic varieties?
- A) Sociolinguistic
- B) Grammatical
- C) Strategic
- D) Discourse
The _______ competence pertains to the knowledge of conventions for cohesion and coherence and rhetorical organization.
- A) contextual
- B) textual
- C) strategic
- D) discourse
The notion of ‘competence’ has its basis _______linguistics.
- A) from
- B) outside
- C) inside
- D) for
Language as communicative practice is tied to a person’s___________, space, social and historical relations.
- A) culture
- B) education
- C) identity
- D) position in time
Which of the following either exist in our memory as a category used in thinking, or may be created as a new category which could then be stored away in memory?
- A) Inference
- B) Non culture concept
- C) Concept
- D) Memory
Which of the following types of competence is used to compensate communication disruption caused by lack of communicative competence?
- A) Strategic
- B) Sociolinguistic
- C) Grammatical
- D) Discourse
Preschoolers use their communicative competence to make_______.
- A) answers
- B) things
- C) demands
- D) friends
Who among the following introduced the concept of ‘communicative competence’?
- A) Lenneberg
- B) Hymes
- C) Cook
- D) Nunan
Which of the following can be either remembered (already stored in memory) or inferred (worked out)?
- A) Proposition
- B) Concept
- C) Inference
- D) Memory
Which of the following types of competence is the ability to recognize and produce the distinctive grammatical structures of a language?
- A) Discourse
- B) Grammatical
- C) Strategic
- D) Sociolinguistic
Every language is structurally unique and _________.
- A) relative
- B) relational
- C) temporal
- D) none of the given options
Which of the following concepts opens the window to the realization that all languages do not translate to each other?
- A) Culture
- B) Linguistic relativity
- C) None of the given options
- D) Propositions
There are similarities between__________ and other phenomena rather than the differences.
- A) knowledge
- B) language
- C) culture
- D) all of the given options
Which of the following types of competence is the ability to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances?
- A) Strategic
- B) Discourse
- C) Grammatical
- D) Sociolinguistic
Our knowledge consists of a vast network of concepts interrelated by____________.
- A) culture
- B) propositions
- C) linguistic relativity
- D) none of the given options
Linguistic theories based on the notion of competence have been criticized for being too_______.
- A) ambiguous
- B) idealistic
- C) dramatic
- D) realistic
Which of the following is the process in which information is encoded, stored?
- A) Inference
- B) Thought
- C) Memory
- D) Concept
Language determines the manner and the way the human _________.
- A) mind thinks
- B) relates
- C) body works
- D) sleeps
Which of the following is a mental process by which we reach a conclusion based on specific evidence?
- A) Memory
- B) Thought
- C) Concept
- D) Inference
According to Howes (1983) during preschool years, children begin to differentiate between friends and_______.
- A) classmates
- B) relatives
- C) playmates
- D) siblings