MCQ Bank
Long's ______ refers to participation in conversation with native speakers.
- A) Interpersonal hypothesis
- B) Interactive hypothesis
- C) Interaction hypothesis
- D) Intrapersonal hypothesis
In his updated version of Interaction Hypothesis (IH), Long (1996) emphasizes on the learner’s __________ when she/he is interactionally involved in modified output.
- A) LAD
- B) external factors
- C) internal mechanisms
- D) performance
Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and their tedious drill is the viewpoint of ________.
- A) Monitor Model
- B) Behaviourism
- C) Genarativism
- D) Constructivism
Processability Theory was proposed by ______________.
- A) None of the given options
- B) Manfred Pienemann
- C) Long
- D) Schmidt
Ellis (1991) states that Comprehensible Input is necessary for____________.
- A) L2 acquisition
- B) L1 acquisition
- C) L2 learning
- D) L1 learning
Which of the following theories support the role of memory in language learning?
- A) Cognitivism
- B) Behaviourist
- C) Socio-cultural theory
- D) Generativist
______ proposed a distinction between controlled and automatic processing.
- A) McDonough
- B) McLaughlin
- C) Nunan
- D) Schmidt
To conclude, the interaction hypothesis is a theory of _______ which refers to the development of language proficiency through face-to-face interaction and communication.
- A) L2 interference
- B) L1 acquisition
- C) L2 acquisition
- D) L1 interference
Which of the following theories proposes ‘Observable behavior’ as a core factor that influences learning?
- A) Constructivist
- B) Behaviorist
- C) Cognitivist
- D) Nativist
Which of the following theories believes on integration of linguistic, psychological, and sociological paradigms?
- A) Constructivism
- B) Behaviourism
- C) Genarativism
- D) Monitor Model
Focusing on reinforcement and desired behaviours of learners in a language classroom is key feature of _______ approach.
- A) behaviourist
- B) generativist
- C) congnitivist
- D) constructivist
According to Long’s interaction hypothesis, participation in conversation with __________ is necessary for L2 acquisition.
- A) native speakers
- B) Both of the given options
- C) non-native speakers
- D) None of the given options
Pienemann (1998) understands development as a process in which the development of more complex structures _____________.
- A) becomes incomplete
- B) happens gradually
- C) all of the given options
- D) is slowed down
Long proposed the Interaction Hypothesis while _______________ investigated it empirically.
- A) Pica
- B) Schmidt
- C) None of the given options
- D) Chomsky
According to Towell and Hawkins (1994), _________ research has to deal both with the learner's attempts to learn the system and the learner's attempts to learn to use the system.
- A) SLA
- B) all of the given options
- C) ELT
- D) ESP
Procedural knowledge is the performance of _______ knowledge.
- A) Formal
- B) Declarative
- C) Symbolic
- D) New
For language generation, Processability Theory (PT) relies on _________ which refers to language processing in real time.
- A) Behaviorism
- B) Levelt's Model
- C) Generativism
- D) Cognitivist approach
Universal Grammar ___________ but does not determine the language learning process.
- A) changes
- B) enhances
- C) conditions
- D) restricts
Social and psychological integration of the learner with the target language group is termed as ________.
- A) Attrition
- B) Accommodation
- C) Assimilation
- D) Acculturation
Learners exposed to SLA after the age of ________ can encounter “multiplicity of knowledge sources.”
- A) fourteen years
- B) twelve years
- C) ten years
- D) seven years