10 Mistakes Errors Competence Performance Transfer Interlanguage

- (How many sisters do you have?) (She name is Sara)

The previous examples are formed by a student whose L1 is Arabic. The errors can be explained by relating them to the student's :

• A) translation

• B) interlanguage

• C) code-switching

• D) communicative competence

2- The actual knowledge of a language is called

• A) linguistic ability

• B) implementation

• C) performance

• D) competence

3- Competence based language teaching focuses on what students

• A- Think in a language

• B- Know in a language  

• C- Doing in language

• D- Believe in a language

4- Student: We swimmed in the ocean last week.

-Teacher: Do you know where your

mistake is?

-Student: No.

The student's mistake here is linked to his/her linguistic ......

• A) strategy

• B) psychology

• C) competence

• D) performance

5- Slips of the tongue( e.g. yesterday instead of tomorrow in " I will see you yesterday") can be explained as a ................... error.

• A) competence

• B) performance

• C) universal grammar

• D) generative grammar

6- The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by speakers of a language is called________.

• A) Mastery

• B) Performance

• C) Proficiency

• D) Competence

7- Common error made by Arabic native speakers when using English is to write or say ( five years before rather than five years ago ) This is an example of:

• A) Negative transfer

• B) Feature merging

• C) Positive transfer

• D) Equivalence

Answer explanation

يعود ago years fiveبدلا من ان يقول before years five◾خطأ شائع يقوم به متحدث عربي عندما يستخدم الانجليزية ، عندما يكتب او يقول    الى : النقل السلبي

8- An L2 learner may experience________in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot be easily corrected.

• A) Fossilization

• B) A plateau

• C) Laziness

• D) loss of interest

9- A student, whose L1 in Arabic and L2 in English, producing an utterance such as : 'the cat jumped over the fence' the influence of the Arabic structure ' 'قفزت Is an example of:

• A) intralanguage

• B) interlanguage

• C) positive transfer

• D) negative transfer

10- When 12 learners apply the knowledge of their first language to the second is a situation called :

• A) Association 

• B) Connection

• C) Movement

• D) Transfer