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Applied linguistics - midterm

Total questions: 71

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

....... is a set of arbitrary symbols.These symbols have vocal and visual meanings.

a)

learning

b)

language

c)

Aqusition

2.

.......... is acquiring knowledge of a subject or skill by study.

a)

learning

b)

teaching

3.

They believe in data and responses

a)

Generative Linguistics

b)

Structural Linguistics

4.

People change their behavior based on the rewards and positive reinforcement they receive.

a)

Generative Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology

b)

Structural Linguistics and Behavioral psychology

5.

who is the founder of Generative Linguistics

a)

Noam Chomsky

b)

Piaget and vygotsky

c)

vygotsky

d)

Skinner

6.

........... acquired by conditioning

a)

Structural Linguistics and Behavioral psychology

b)

Generative Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology

7.

the founder of Behavioral psychology

a)

vygotsky

b)

piaget and vygotsky

c)

Noam Chomsky

d)

Skinner

8.

they will come up with questions they see or hear. Then, they will develop ideas and hypotheses.

a)

Behavioral psychology

b)

Generative Linguistics

c)

Cognitive Psychology

9.

Gaining knowledge by experiments

a)

Scientific Method -Behavioral psychology

b)

Empirical Method -Behavioral psychology

c)

Innateness Method -Cognitive Psychology

10.

structures which work together to code meaning and every structure has different meaning

a)

Surface structure

b)

Deep structure

11.

About having competence in the language

a)

Cognitive Psychology

b)

Structural Linguistics

c)

Generative Linguistics

d)

Behavioral psychology

12.

The study of the mental process

a)

Generative Linguistics

b)

Structural Linguistics

13.

Typical Method of Generative Linguistics

a)

Cooperative group learning

b)

Acquisition

c)

Reward and punishment

d)

Scientific method

14.

some knowledge about language exists in humans at birth.

a)

Acquisition

b)

Innateness

c)

Nurture

15.

The language produced by second- and foreign- language learners who are in the process of learning a language.

a)

comprehension and production

b)

Performance

c)

Interlanguage

d)

Innateness:

16.

Acquisition

a)

acquiring knowledge of a subject/skill by study, instruction, or experience.

b)

the capacity to perceive and comprehend language

17.

Knowledge and meaning come from the experince of social interaction .

a)

Piaget & Vygotsky

b)

Noam Chomsky

c)

Skinner

18.

ZPD : is the stage of what the learner can do with help and without help( share experience)

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The ( non observable ) iIssues in First Language Acquisition

a)

Competence

b)

Performance

20.

the mental ability of knowing the language

a)

Competence

b)

Performance

c)

Comprehension

d)

Production

21.

is the actual production (spoken, written)

a)

Performance

b)

Comprehension

c)

Practice & Frequency

d)

Production

22.

.......... indicate competence that is why it is very hard.

a)

Comprehension &Production

b)

Performance

c)

Imitation

d)

Frequency

23.

aspects of competence & performance. In child language

a)

Comprehension &Production

b)

Language & Thought

c)

Imitation

d)

Practice & Frequenc

24.

the set of skills and roles are to be cultivated through time

a)

Nature

b)

Nurture.

c)

Competence

d)

Innateness:

25.

without effort

a)

Nurture

b)

Nature

26.

Innateness hypothesis was first proposed by

a)

Skinner

b)

Noam Chomsky

c)

Piaget & vygotsky

27.

question formation is an example of...................Issues in First Language Acquisition

a)

Comprehension &Production

b)

Competence & Performance

c)

Universals

d)

Practice & Frequency

28.

Language develops from full sentences of almost limitless length to grammar.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

variability in the process of language acquisition, which means something children once learned may easily changed

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Children exhibit great ability & systematicity to understand the phonological, structural

a)

True

b)

False

31.

the linguists who said that language depends on the thought

a)

Piaget

b)

Bruner

c)

Vigotsky

32.

.............. pointed out that there are sources of language-influenced intellectual development

a)

Piaget

b)

Bruner

c)

Vigotsky

33.

strategy in early language learning

a)

Imitation

b)

Reptation

c)

Role - play

34.

......... language seems to be a key to language acquisition.

a)

adult

b)

children

35.

Children’s language seems to be a key to language acquisition.

a)

Behavioral psycholog

b)

Cognitive Psychology

36.

First listening then speaking - order in language learning.

a)

adults

b)

children

37.

the ability of an individual to use two languages effectively.

a)

Bilingualism

b)

Monolingualism

c)

multilingualism.

38.

the ability to use a single language.

a)

Bilingualism

b)

Monolingualism

c)

multilingualism.

39.

who learns two languages in the same environment

a)

A compound bilingual

b)

A coordinate bilingual

c)

A sub-coordinate bilingual

40.

who learns two languages in different contexts ( home and school)

a)

A compound bilingual

b)

A coordinate bilingual

c)

A sub-coordinate bilingual

41.

one language dominates. knowing two languages and use one more than the other.

a)

A compound bilingual

b)

A coordinate bilingual

c)

A sub-coordinate bilingual

42.

The use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same interaction.

a)

multilingualism

b)

Code-switching

c)

Interference

43.

applying knowledge from one language to another language.

a)

Code-switching

b)

Interference

c)

Bilingualism

44.

......... are better learners

a)

adults

b)

children

45.

............ are better at learning foreign languages

a)

adults

b)

children

46.

are more cognitively secure and thus manifest more interference.

a)

adults

b)

children

47.

the first four types of Gagne’s Types of Learning .

a)

behavioral

b)

cognitive

48.

the second four types of Gagne’s Types of Learning .

a)

behavioral

b)

cognitive

49.

learn how to respond to a signal

a)

Signal learning

b)

Stimulus

c)

Chaining

d)

Verbal association

50.

uncontrolled

a)

Signal learning

b)

Stimulus

c)

Chaining

d)

Verbal association

51.

by practice

a)

Signal learning

b)

Stimulus- response learning

c)

Chaining

d)

Problem solving

52.

I have the choice (controlled)

a)

Signal learning

b)

Stimulus- response learning

c)

Chaining

d)

Discrimination learning

53.

learn how to response to more than one stimuli

a)

Stimulus

b)

Chaining

c)

Verbal association

d)

Concept learning

54.

response with verbal chains

a)

Chaining

b)

Verbal association

c)

Discrimination learning

d)

principle learning or rule learning

55.

distinguish between similar stimuli (latte -cappuccino)

a)

Chaining

b)

Concept learning

c)

Discrimination learning

d)

principle learning or rule learning

56.

Apple = fruit

cat and dog = pets

a)

Discrimination learning

b)

Chaining

c)

Concept learning

57.

singular response to an entire class of stimuli

a)

Chaining

b)

Signal learning

c)

Problem solving

d)

Concept learning

58.

Applied things

a)

Problem solving

b)

Concept learning

c)

Discrimination learning

d)

principle learning or rule learning

59.

views as a chain of two or more concepts

a)

Discrimination learning

b)

principle learning

c)

Concept learning

60.

there is no specialized skill require from the teacher.

a)

the grammar-translation method

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

61.

outdated text just to look at the structure

a)

the grammar-translation method

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

62.

students are not trained to learn or to speak the target language.

a)

grammar-translation method

b)

Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

63.

the army method

a)

the grammar-translation method:

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

64.

based on repetition (fast and effective)

a)

the grammar-translation method

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

65.

Following Skinner’s Behaviorism theory by using the system of reinforcement

a)

the grammar-translation method

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

66.

The use of the mother tongue is permitted

a)

the grammar-translation method

and

the community language learning

b)

the Audiolingual method

and

the direct method

67.

language learning is habit-formation

a)

the community language learning

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the grammar-translation method

d)

the direct method

68.

drill and dialogue - characteristics of

a)

the grammar-translation method

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

69.

It is based on Krashen’s input theory

a)

the grammar-translation method

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the direct method

d)

the community language learning

70.

authentic text ( to learn from your own experience )

a)

the community language learning

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the grammar-translation method

d)

the direct method

71.

the teacher drilled students in the use of grammar.

a)

the community language learning

b)

the Audiolingual method

c)

the grammar-translation method

d)

the direct method