MCQ Bank
In ____________, English was given the status of the language of higher administration, judiciary and education. This was the new Anglicist policy.
- A) 1840
- B) 1836
- C) 1835
- D) 1838
__________ is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community.
- A) Implementation
- B) Multilingualism
- C) Selection
- D) Language planning
American English is the _________colonial variety of English.
- A) fourth
- B) first
- C) second
- D) third
The changing ___________ scenario according to some scholars and linguists suggests that native speakers should be more tolerant towards target learners.
- A) ESP
- B) ESL
- C) SLA
- D) EFL
Restart, rejoin and discontent are the examples of ______________ morphemes.
- A) lexical
- B) inflectional
- C) bound
- D) free
Each _________ in the world has some unique features and functions.
- A) language
- B) goal
- C) idea
- D) method
Two languages exploited in popular media such as newspapers, songs and films is known as _________.
- A) Expressiveness
- B) Creativeness
- C)
- D)
Are, this eat, let and want are the examples of _______ morphemes.
- A) lexical
- B) inflectional
- C) free
- D) bound
Connection between the demand for and spread of _______ and the emergent liberation movements in Africa and Asia.
- A) English
- B) Language
- C)
- D)
The continuation of two parallel systems in education was a reflection of the __________ policies before partition in India.
- A) Hindus
- B) British
- C) Muslim
- D) Indian
Aim of the _________ policy was to confine the subjects to their current environments.
- A) economic
- B) colonial
- C) language
- D) education
____________ is the language of the majority of the people in the world.
- A) French
- B) Chinese
- C) English
- D) Urdu
Canadian English has retained strong cultural and political ties with ____________.
- A) None of the given options
- B) United States
- C) Europe
- D) Britain
With reference to ‘settlement history’, American English is a unique mixture of __________.
- A) academicians
- B) researchers
- C) settlers
- D) everyday speakers
Realities of outer and expanding circle context are based on non-native________________.
- A) peers
- B) interlocutors
- C) teachers
- D) students
____________ reflects the learner's evolving system of rules.
- A) Code mixing
- B) Intra language
- C) Code switching
- D) Inter language
Choose the correct option:
__________________ refers to the intermediate states of a learner’s language as it moves from L1 toward the target L2.
- A) Inter-language
- B) Fossilization
- C) Codification
- D) Nativisation
Which one of the following is inapt to the context of World Englishes?
- A) Acculturation
- B) Fossilization
- C) Codification
- D) Nativisation
The assumption that US or _______ English will be selected as the one world-wide standard English.
- A) Canada
- B) UK
- C)
- D)
SLA scholars ___________ the indigenized varieties of English.
- A) reject
- B) accept
- C) approve
- D) sustain