MCQ Bank
Which of the following theories supports the role of memory in language learning?
- A) Cognitivist
- B) Behaviourist
- C) Constructivist
- D) Monitor Model
According to Schmidt, learning requires ____________.
- A) L2 proficiency
- B) L1 proficiency
- C) attention and low level awareness
- D) competence and performance
Cognitivists focus on _________, including how people perceive, think, remember, learn, solve problems, and direct their attention to one stimulus rather than another.
- A) L2 learning
- B) behavior patterns
- C) L1 acquisition
- D) mental processes
Towell and Hawkins’ model of SLA attempts to _______ internal UG-derived hypothesis concerning the mechanism that functions during the processes of language learning.
- A) recycle
- B) reconcile
- C) reinvigorate
- D) speed up
Pica has ___________the IH by emphasizing the importance of the social relationship between participants as a determinant of interactional modifications.
- A) debilitated
- B) extended
- C) delimited
- D) transformed
Which of the following theories do not support the role of memory in language learning?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Behaviourist
- C) Constructivist
- D) Monitor Model
Which of the following theories asserts that much of the capacity for language learning in humans is ‘innate’?
- A) Behaviorist
- B) Cognitivist
- C) Nativist
- D) Constructivist
According to Behaviorism, learners are a ____________ who learn through stimuli and response.
- A) single class
- B) commodity
- C) blank slate
- D) all of the given options
Generativism calls the language learners as having a(n) _________ ability to learn language.
- A) acquired
- B) taught
- C) partial
- D) innate
According to Schmidt “subliminal language learning is ________”.
- A) impossible
- B) None of the given options
- C) less complex
- D) easy to tackle
According to Constructivism, people ________ their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiencing things and reflecting on their experiences.
- A) imitate
- B) construct
- C) segregate
- D) improve
According to Long’s Interaction Hypothesis (IH), interaction with ___________ is necessary for L2 acquisition.
- A) pidgin users
- B) native speakers
- C) creole users
- D) L2 speakers
In the context of symbolic competence, the discourse which reveals about social relations, memories, emotions, and aspirations is termed as symbolic _______.
- A) power
- B) competence
- C) representation
- D) action
Which of the following components was truly focused by Celce-Murcia et al for studying communicative competence?
- A) Linguistic
- B) Pragmatic
- C) Discourse
- D) Strategic
Knowledge means understanding whereas competence means ________.
- A) skill
- B) view
- C) awareness
- D) perception
According to Cummins, Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) are language skills needed in _________.
- A) language classrooms
- B) legal documentation
- C) research papers
- D) social situations
In 1996, Bachman and Palmer revisited the model of CLA and made _______.
- A) minor changes mostly in nomenclature
- B) drastic changes to the change the model altogether
- C) no changes in the nomenclature
- D) major changes in its core features
Primarily, the CUP Model deals with _____________.
- A) L2 learning
- B) L1 interference
- C) L1 and L2 proficiency
- D) L1 acquisition
CALP Model was proposed by _____________.
- A) Claud Levi Strauss
- B) Jim Summins
- C) Richard Dawkins
- D) Richardson
Which of the following competence was added by Celce-Murcia in his revised model of communicative competence (2007)?
- A) Strategic
- B) Linguistic
- C) Discourse
- D) Formulaic