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BSED1-midterm - MULTILINGUALISM

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The act of using or promoting the use of multiple languages.

a)

conversation

b)

speech

c)

bilingualism

d)

multilingualism

2.

A multilingual person is generally referred to as a ________.

a)

polynomial

b)

natural bilingualism

c)

maximal

d)

polyglot

3.

Able to speak, read or write a language, especially a foreign language, easily and well.

a)

interconnected

b)

flawed

c)

fluent

d)

fluid

4.

A multilingual person has enhanced executive function and better at some aspects of language learning compared to monolinguals.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least three languages during childhood.

a)

true

b)

false

6.

Even if someone is highly proficient in two or more languages, his or her so- called communicative competence or ability may not be as balanced.

a)

true

b)

false

7.

Linguists have distinguished various types of multilingual competence, which can be put into three categories, except:

a)

Compound Bilinguals

b)

Sub-coordinate Bilinguals

c)

Coordinate Bilinguals

d)

Complex Bilinguals

8.

What is Diglossia?

a)

Student participation.

b)

Two linguistic varieties in the same population , one of the two have reference front to another .

c)

Situation and context.

d)

Overcome the problems of vocabulary.

9.

A person who is able to communicate in two (or sometimes more) languages with complete and equal fluency.

a)

Diglossia

b)

Ambilingualism

c)

Bipart-lingualism

10.

What is code-switching?

a)

Corpus-based research on language ideologies.

b)

It is the use of two or more languages in the same speech or sentence.

c)

A central problem for sociolinguistic approaches to language is nationhood.

d)

The examination of the identity of second language students is a relatively recent process.

11.

Language experts and teachers alike generally approve of the use of Taglish.

a)

true

b)

false

12.

When a student's first language continues to be developed while they're learning their second language is called _______.

a)

Additive bilingual

b)

Subtractive bilingual

c)

Divided bilingual

13.

Some the causes of multilingualism in the current world include the effect of colonialism, migration of people from one place to another, intermarriages among people from different language groups, and introduction of multilingual learning systems in schools.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

When children are exposed to additional languages at age three or older, they are considered ______

a)

Successive bilingualism

b)

Simultaneous bilingualism

c)

Receptive bilingualism

15.

Multilingualism increases a person’s cognitive flexibility.

a)

true

b)

false