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SLA QUIZ

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Some innate capacity must be posited to account for learning

a)

true

b)

false

2.

How does the learner acquire L2 knowledge?

a)

Application of prior knowledge

b)

Application of common knowledge

3.

Language learners are not merely passive recipients of...

a)

Stimuli

b)

Movement

4.

A creative force involved in language development must be an innate endowment

a)

true

b)

false

5.

There is an agreement over whether capacity for language learning is basically different from learning any other complex of domain

a)

true

b)

false

6.

How is the process of L2 input in the interactional situation?

a)

provocative

b)

facilitative

c)

impressive

d)

aggressive

7.

What is the perspective that holds SLA comes from the active engagement of learners in interaction or participation in communicative events

a)

social perspective

b)

political perspective

c)

personal perspective

d)

communication perspective

8.

The creative process of restructuring that is driven by inner forces in interaction with environmental factors, and motivated both by L1 knowledge and by input from L2 is called?

a)

interaction

b)

processing on language input

c)

automatization

d)

restructuring of the L2 knowledge system

9.

SLA occurs progressively through a series of systematic stages

a)

true

b)

false

10.

Development of L2 knowledge doesn't manifest itself in a smooth cline of linguistic performance, but rather in one which sometimes shows abrupt changes in the interlanguage system

a)

true

b)

false

11.

What is the definition of automatization

a)

An incremental achievement upon which efficient engagement in all language activities ultimately depends

b)

A creative process, driven by inner forces in interaction with an environmental factors

12.

What kind of frequency are widely recognized determinants of L2 development?

a)

frequency of practice

b)

frequency of habit

c)

frequency of input

d)

frequency of language

13.

Which one is not considered as basic disagreement within both psychological and linguistic perspectives comes in considering language learning as primarily a process of acquiring?

a)

language-spesific systems of rules

b)

very general principles with options to be selected

c)

increasing strength of associations between linguistic forms and meaning

d)

simplistic notions of habit formation

14.

Three basic disagreement derive from very basic differences in theoretical...

a)

directions

b)

orientations

15.

Looking to future directions, the growing recognition of the complex nature of SLA, and of individual and situational differences, promises acceptance of more complex answers to the question of how language is...

a)

learned

b)

processed

c)

developed

d)

directed