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Worksheets2nd Language Acquisition
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Noam Chomsky is the mastermind of...
Generative linguistics
Structuralism
Social Studies
Media and politics studies
Principles & Parameters Theory emerged due to...
Mathematical theory questions unanswered
Solving an engineering equation
The logical problem of language acquisition
None of the options
Language architecture consists in...
theorizing how language is structured
mind's well functioning
imaginary skills
how we understand verbs
Language as a capacity of communicating effectively using finite means to create infinite statements is inherent to...
All living beings
Humans and some plants
All animals
Human beings alone
The difference between Structuralism and Generativism is...
The first focuses on describing languages so as the second
The second focuses on explaining language behaviour as the first describes them
Both approaches focus on social behaviour
Generativism is older than Structuralism
Linguistics principles are...
Different among languages
Common characteristics over all languages
Not connected to language theory at all
An old psychology theory
Linguistics parameters are...
not connected to language at all
the same for all languages
what differs among languages
the ideal psychology theory
The logical problem of language acquisition is...
acquiring language is a problem
how can a speaker know a language the way she knows?
language is an easy thing to acquire
not connected to language theory at all
In Generative theory, innatism means..
language is not a difficult task in second language acquisition
language is something that only a part of humans can acquire
we know everything
every human being is genetically gifted with language acquisition capacity
Knowing what differs among languages may help teachers to...
focus on what learners need to acquire language
to teach happily
persuade students to study linguistics
not teach language at all
Native grammar in generative linguistics is...
A theory about phonetics
A grammar from a singular country
The biological gift that enables humans to acquire a language
A gramar book
Linguistic Parameters are marked in languages and it may be as it follows:
Positively/negatively
They are not marked at all
It depends on the theory
Languages do not have parameters
