MCQ Bank
The CUP Model was forwarded by __________.
- A) Ferdinand De Sassure
- B) Michael Bakthin
- C) Halliday
- D) Cummins and Swain
Which of the following is true for communicative competence proposed by Celce-Murcia et al.?
- A) A set of various linguistic skills
- B) Fixed system of discrete abilities
- C) Hierarchical set of discrete competencies
- D) Dynamic and interactive construct
In their revised model of communicative competence, Canale and Swain divided __________ competence into two components.
- A) grammatical
- B) pragmatic
- C) strategic
- D) sociolinguistic
Learner’s ability to combine grammatical forms and meanings to find different ways to speak or write defines _________ competence.
- A) strategic
- B) sociolinguistic
- C) discourse
- D) grammatical
Like Hymes, Canale and Swain also presented a model of ________.
- A) cultural competence
- B) social competence
- C) communicative competence
- D) political competence
In the context of symbolic competence, what words say and what they reveal about mind defines the concept of symbolic ________.
- A) power
- B) representation
- C) action
- D) competence
CALP Model primarily deals with __________.
- A) social interaction
- B) higher studies in English
- C) school based learning
- D) social situations
The CUP model was proposed in __________.
- A) 1990
- B) 1992
- C) 1988
- D) 1986
Which of the following components is added into the category of ‘sociolinguistic knowledge’ in Bachman’s 2010 model of CLA?
- A) Knowledge of dialects/varieties
- B) Knowledge of natural or idiomatic expressions
- C) Knowledge of register
- D) Knowledge of genre
According to Baker (2006), “BICS is said to occur when there are _________for language delivery.”
- A) native speakers
- B) proper curricula
- C) contextual supports and props
- D) designed laboratories
The CUP Model is represented with a/an__________.
- A) vertically placed arrow
- B) taxonomical graph
- C) dual iceberg metaphor
- D) horizontally placed arrow
In the context of symbolic competence, what words do and what they reveal about mind defines the concept of symbolic ________.
- A) power
- B) competence
- C) representation
- D) action
The ultimate goal of SLA research is to enable learners face _____________.
- A) theory of language
- B) all of the given options
- C) real-world challenges
- D) grammatical challenges
BICS stands for________.
- A) basic international communication skills
- B) basic individual communication skills
- C) basic interpersonal communication skills
- D) basic intrapersonal communication skills
According to MaLaughlin’s ‘automaticity and restructuring’, automatic processing doesn’t require ______________.
- A) training
- B) structure
- C) teachers
- D) attention
Five main characteristics of research within applied linguistics are: empirical, logical, reductive, planned, and____________.
- A) speculative
- B) correlative
- C) non-relative
- D) imaginative
McLaughlin uses the twin concepts of ________to describe the cognitive processes involved in SLA.
- A) langue and parole
- B) first and second language
- C) automaticity and restructuring
- D) learning and acquisition
According to Davies and Elder (2007), applied linguistics deals with determining ___________ involving language.
- A) social roles
- B) all of the given options
- C) social status
- D) social problems
__________occurs when an associative connection between a certain kind of input and some output pattern occurs.
- A) Learning
- B) Acquisition
- C) Automaticity
- D) Linguistic error
McLaughlin proposed the concepts of controlled and automatic processing as _________ to conscious/unconscious dichotomy.
- A) substitutes
- B) None of the given options
- C) contrary
- D) equal