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APA Citation for ESL Learners

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does APA stand for?

a)

American Psychological Association

b)

Aimless People Arguing

c)

American Physiological Association

d)

American Pioneers Artwork

2.

The latest edition of APA that was published last 2019 is

a)

7th Edition

b)

8th Edition

c)

9th Edition

d)

10th Edition

3.

Which of the following does NOT require a reference?

a)

Book

b)

Website

c)

Email

d)

Article

4.

This In Text Citation is within/part of the sentence.

a)

Paranthetical

b)

Bracket

c)

Narrative

d)

None of the Above

5.

This is used when citing 3 or more authors.

a)

and more

b)

etc

c)

and others

d)

et al

6.

If date is unavailable, we use

a)

n.d.

b)

n.a.

c)

n/a

d)

No date

7.

The following are narrative citations EXCEPT

a)

Biber et al. (1999) view interactive conversational inserts as one major group of discourse markers that ‘can stand alone or attach themselves to larger discoursal units’ (p. 1046)

b)

Schiffrin (1987) views discourse as a product of several interlocking components: exchange, action, idea structures, information state and participation framework.

c)

One study found that ethnicities of protagonists in children's fiction correlated with differences in types of emotions displayed by those characters (Grady et al., 2019).

d)

Schleef (2005) lists four main uses of okay/right in lectures based on Holmes’s (1984) study of okay and right.

8.

All cited sources must be included in the reference list EXCEPT

a)

a government leaflet

b)

a personal interview

c)

a novel

d)

a movie

9.

What type of citation is used in the following sentence?

A few researchers in the linguistics field have developed training programs designed to improve native speakers' ability to understand accented speech (Derwing et al., 2002; Thomas, 2004).

a)

narrative citation

b)

APA citation

c)

parenthetical citation

d)

MLA citation

10.

The following are periodicals EXCEPT

a)

2nd edition textbook

b)

newspaper

c)

journal

d)

magazine