Language usage varies among __________.

• A) none of the given options
• B) embassies
• C) national institutes
• D) social classes

Linguistic structure or behavior can influence or determine ___________ structure

• A) cultural
• B) social
• C) regional
• D) institutional

Which of the following types of competence is made up of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that act to compensate for breakdowns in communication?

• A) Discourse
• B) Strategic
• C) Sociolinguistic
• D) Grammatical

Which of the following covers a number of different types of mental activity, and lies in the province of cognitive psychology?

• A) Memory
• B) Thought
• C) Concept
• D) Inference

In order to speak any language, you have to pay attention to the meanings that are ___________marked in that language.

• A) socially
• B) structurally
• C) culturally
• D) grammatically

Language has a strong relationship with __________.

• A) memory
• B) thought
• C) concept
• D) inference

Competence enables native speaker to recognize _________ sentences.

• A) structured
• B) ambiguous
• C) removed
• D) flawless

Which of the following types of competence is to know how to recognize and repair communication breakdowns?

• A) Strategic
• B) Discourse
• C) Sociolinguistic
• D) Grammatical

According to Chomsky, ‘competence’ is an ideal but not a _______ person who has complete knowledge of language.

• A) real
• B) adapted
• C) proficient
• D) competent

Which of the following types of competence is the ability to interpret the social meaning of the choice of linguistic varieties?

• A) Sociolinguistic
• B) Grammatical
• C) Strategic
• D) Discourse

The _______ competence pertains to the knowledge of conventions for cohesion and coherence and rhetorical organization.

• A) contextual
• B) textual
• C) strategic
• D) discourse

The notion of ‘competence’ has its basis _______linguistics.

• A) from
• B) outside
• C) inside
• D) for

Language as communicative practice is tied to a person’s___________, space, social and historical relations.

• A) culture
• B) education
• C) identity
• D) position in time

Which of the following either exist in our memory as a category used in thinking, or may be created as a new category which could then be stored away in memory?

• A) Inference
• B) Non culture concept
• C) Concept
• D) Memory

Which of the following types of competence is used to compensate communication disruption caused by lack of communicative competence?

• A) Strategic
• B) Sociolinguistic
• C) Grammatical
• D) Discourse

Preschoolers use their communicative competence to make_______.

• A) answers
• B) things
• C) demands
• D) friends

Who among the following introduced the concept of ‘communicative competence’?

• A) Lenneberg
• B) Hymes
• C) Cook
• D) Nunan

Which of the following can be either remembered (already stored in memory) or inferred (worked out)?

• A) Proposition
• B) Concept
• C) Inference
• D) Memory

Which of the following types of competence is the ability to recognize and produce the distinctive grammatical structures of a language?

• A) Discourse
• B) Grammatical
• C) Strategic
• D) Sociolinguistic

Every language is structurally unique and _________.

• A) relative
• B) relational
• C) temporal
• D) none of the given options