WorksheetsWEP: Kachru Book Quiz (Part 1)
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 30mins
The spread of English has been viewed into ...
1 diffusion
2 diffusions
3 diffusions
4 diffusions
The spread of English as a consequence of the migration of English-speaking people from Great Britain to these country, except
...
Australia
North America
New Zealand
North Africa
The spread of English among speakers of diverse groups of peoples and languages across the world as a result of these reasons, except ...
colonialism
politics
economics
history
What language is categorized as standard English?
British English
Australian English
New Zealand English
Irish English
The English-using world in terms of three concentric circles, except ...
Inner Circle
Outer Circle
Expanding Circle
Insider Cricle
Which country comprises as the ‘mother country’?
England and British Isles
England and America
America and Australia
America ansd New Zealand
Below are the outer circle countries, except ...
Kenya
Singapore
Ghana
South America
Below are the expanding circle countries, except
...
South Africa
Japan
Egypt
Bangladesh
Nigeria belongs to ...
Inner circle
Outer circle
Expanding circle
Invander circle
South Africa belongs to ...
Expanding circle
Outer circle
Inner Circle
Invander circle
National variety as a means of communication is called ...
Language
Accent
Dialect
Pidgin
The feature commonly used as a criterion in talking about variation, in addition to the pronunciation to stress and intonation, or to the rhythm of speech is ...
Language
Accent
Dialect
Pidgin
The varieties of English that are commonly accepted and are considered ‘legitimate’ for educational purposes all over the world are ...
British and American English
Australian and British English
New Zealand and American English
Irish and British English
In inner circle country English is used in functional domains ...
All domains
Most domains
Some domains
Few domains
In outer circle country English is used in functional domains ...
All domains
Most domains
Some domains
Few domains
What are the external model in outer and expanding circle country?
Standard English
Cultural and social background
English variation
English codification
What are the internal model in outer and expanding circle country?
Standard English
Cultural and social background
English variation
English codification
Below is the difference between literature in world Englishes compared to American
and British English ...
National identity
English Grammar
English Vocabulary
English Discourse
A wide-ranging ‘association’ of varieties which would be conceded to be different from one another in particulars, but which are subsumable as ‘subvarieties’ under abroad label is called ...
Speech community
Speech fellowship
Speech act
Speech level
English speaking repesents regional speakers which noticeably distinc dialectal features of prounciation, lexicon is called ...
Speech community
Speech fellowship
Speech act
Speech level
Context of analysis and discussion refers to all the functions which English has in a given community context, e.g., in education at all levels, business, legal system, administration is called ...
range
depth
community
fellowship
The uses of English that are available to people with varying degrees of education who are at different socioeconomic levels, with different jobs and professions is called ...
range
depth
community
fellowship
Which
of this term which is used to name Inner-circle Englishes that they provide norms and less abstractly, teaching models and physical materials such as
textbooks is called ...
Norm providing
Norm accepting
Norm community
Norm fellowship
See
examples afterwards. ‘success for suc cess (Nigeria), recog’nize for ‘recognized (India, Nigeria). What variety is found the previous example?
stress
rhythm
grammar
sounds
The morae of the syllables; long syllables are twice as long as short ones, but the quality of the vowels in long as well as short syllables remains the same. What
variety is found the previous example?
stress
rhythm
grammar
sounds
Simplification of final consonant clusters, for example [lef]
for left, [pick] for picked, [bed] for beds are found in ...
American English
British English
Australian English
Singaporean English
The change of fricative ph for f is found in ...
Nigerian English
Indian English
Malaysian English
Australian English
“They were knowing all the answer.” What violation found in the previous sentence?
Stative and dynamics
Factivity and volitionality
Tense and aspect
Syntactic pattern
Which
of this sentence that violate the rule of ‘tense’?
I have written to him yesterday.
I had written to him.
I wrote to him yesterday.
Which
of this sentence that violate the rule of ‘tags’?
You didn’t want to come, is it?
You did want to come, didn’t you?
You want to come, do you?
You wanted to come, didn’t you?
Which of this sentence that violate the rule of ‘focus and theme’?
Certain medicine we don’(t) stock in our dispensary.
We don’(t) stock certain medicine in our dispensary.
We stock certain medicine in our dispensary.
We didn’t stock certain medicine in our dispensary.
There are some competences in using language, except ...
Linguistic competence
Pragmatic competence
Sociocutural competence
Codified competence
Do not say what you believe to be false: do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. What cooperative principle is it?
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quantity
Maxim relevance
Maxim of manner
Make contributions to communication as informative as required do not give more information than required. What cooperative principle is it?
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quantity
Maxim relevance
Maxim of manner
Be relevant. What cooperative principle is it?
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quantity
Maxim relevance
Maxim of manner
Be perspicuous, i.e., avoid obscurity of expression; avoid unnecessary ambiguity; be brief, be orderly. What cooperative principle is it?
Maxim of quality
Maxim of quantity
Maxim relevance
Maxim of manner
Politeness involves considerations of maintaining face. What does it mean if the speaker give a negative face?
Presentational
Avoidance
Agreement
Confrontation
In what case of Arabic writing is different with standard English?
Grammar
Syntax
Vocabulary
Tradition
An acceptance of language use in society which has difference compared to standard English is called ...
Codification
Accent
Sounds
Rhythm
In India, asking request is varied based on the level of society. The higher the level of society ...
The more polite the utterance
The more impolite the utterance
The shorter the utterance
The more ambigue the utterance
