MCQ Bank
Chomsky argues that the ability to acquire language is __________.
- A) practiced
- B) learned
- C) skilled
- D) innate
Field independent (FI) style enables you to distinguish parts from a ________.
- A) a whole
- B) piece
- C) other parts
- D) fragments
There are __________types of social structures which can affect the acquisition of second languages.
- A) three
- B) six
- C) four
- D) five
Tolerance for ambiguity is one of the learner’s __________that a learner adopts to act in a uncertain conditions.
- A) styles
- B) psyche
- C) cognition
- D) ideas
Linguistic stimulus (a word or sentence) elicits a "mediating" response that is_____________.
- A) cognitivistic
- B) environmental
- C) self-stimulating
- D) behavioristic
The classroom is __________other social life.
- A) restricted to
- B) mixed with
- C) isolated from
- D) integrated with
Variables related to mind and psyche are called ___________ variables.
- A) cognitive
- B) successive
- C) imitative
- D) perceptive
The Korean learners, in contrast to__________ distinguish between tight and loose containment.
- A) English
- B) French
- C) Dutch
- D) Spanish
In second-language acquisition there is no critical age for__________.
- A) semantics
- B) syntax
- C) context
- D) pragmatics
The learning of __________will determine or influence the way we understand our culture and the world.
- A) articles
- B) language
- C) research
- D) textbooks
The basic premise of ___________method was that second language learning should be more like first language learning.
- A) quasi direct
- B) direct
- C) indirect
- D) semi direct
Deep dyslexia is a form of dyslexia that disrupts __________ processes.
- A) writing
- B) thinking
- C) reading
- D) speaking
Field independent (FI) style enables you to distinguish parts from a ________.
- A) a whole
- B) fragments
- C) piece
- D) other parts
Audiol lingual Method (ALM) was a rejection of its classical predecessor, the ___________.
- A) Functional method
- B) Grammar translation method
- C) Generative method
- D) Structural method
Like English _________ does not have a specific subjunctive form to express a counterfactual meaning.
- A) Chinese
- B) Persian
- C) Arabic
- D) Sanskrit
Explication ____________with age.
- A) remains static
- B) remains neutral
- C) increases
- D) decreases
___________is a very strict word-order language.
- A) Dutch
- B) Russian
- C) English
- D) French
Children focus on ___________relations between objects when categorizing.
- A) structural
- B) grammatical
- C) thematic
- D) contextual
SLI is the abbreviation of ____________.
- A) self language impairment
- B) specific language impairment
- C) school language impairment
- D) surface language impairment
The inability to understand speech or to produce fluent and coherent speech is called___________.
- A) Impairment
- B) Aphasia
- C) Amnesia
- D) Anaphora