Linguistics ESOL GACE Prep

In semantics, denotation means

• The emotional association of a word

• How words are formed into phrases or sentences

• A speech act of one or more words with silence before and after

• A word's actual dictionary definition

While writing a paragraph describing her house, a student mistakenly uses the following terms: in the porch, on the basement, and around the ceiling. She needs extra practice with which point of grammar?

• Prepositions

• Conjunctions

• Pronouns

• Verbs

Regional and social dialects are important points of study in

• pragmatics

• sociolinguistics

• syntax

• interference

Which word below uses the sound of the IPA symbol [j]?

• Young

• Jump

• man

• boy

In __________, the context of the situation and the communication between speaker and listener are important beyond the meaning of the words and phrases.

• linguistic competence

• Pragmatics

• Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)

• Phonetics

Which definition best describes a pidgin?

• A variety of a language that people in a certain region speak

• A grayish bird often found in cities

• A grammatically Simplified mode of communicating that may use elements of two languages

• A stage of first-language acquisition

In an ESOL classroom, many SPanish-speaking students routinely make mistake saying sentences such as "is cold today," or "Alejandra is growing. Is tall now." The teacher could guess that this interference is due to what?

• Prepositions in Spanish

• Dropped pronouns in Spanish

• Using gerunds in Spanish

• Spanish not having noncount nouns

The area of communicative competence that deals with being able to recognize and repair instances of communication breakdown is _________ competence

• Lunguistic

• Discourse

• Sociolinguistic

• Strategic

In the ESOL classroom, why would the concept of World Englishes be important?

• Both native English speakers and those learning English as a second language must be accustomed to speaking to and understanding others with various dialects

• World Englishes means English should be the only language spoken in the world, so students should study very hard to be fluent

• World Englishers are pidgins that students should learn so they can communicate in a global marketplace

• English is the easiest language to learn in the world

What are "false friend" cognates?

• ways of thinking that are not helpful to language learning

• words that are similar in spelling and meaning in two languages

• Words in two languages that look similar but are actually different

• Two-faced study partners