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Krashen's Five Main Hypotheses

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

Choose the CORRECT statement about Input Hypothesis.

a)

applies only to language learning

b)

second language learners require comprehensible input, represented by i + 2.

c)

occurs when learners receive messages that they can understand.

d)

a language user must also have an adequate amount of time to consciously think about and apply learned rules.

2.

Affective filter can be prompted by many different variables including anxiety, self-confidence and motivation.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

3.

According to Krashen, ______________ is a subconscious process while learning is conscious.

a)

acquisition

b)

learning

c)

communication

d)

produc­tion

4.

What factors influence a student's second language acquisition?

a)

Native language proficiency

b)

Cultural background

c)

Prior Schooling

d)

All of the above

5.

What are the five hypothesis?

a)

the five hypothesis are educational, description, exposition, and argumentatives.

b)

the five hypothesis are the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the input hypothesis and the affective filter hypothesis.

c)

the five hypothesis are educational, the natural order hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the input hypothesis and the affective filter hypothesis.

6.

What is the monitor model?

a)

The monitor model is the most ambitious theory of the second-language learning process.

b)

The monitor model is the most ambitious theory of the second-language teaching process.

7.

Who proposed the monitor model?

a)

The monitor model has been proposed by Noam Chomsky.

b)

The monitor model has been proposed by Stephen Krashen.

8.

What is the language?

a)

The language is the speed of acquisition.

b)

The language is the language universal.

c)

The language is a system for communicating with each other.

9.

What is the first language acquisition?

a)

First language acquisition refers to the way children learn their native language.

b)

First language acquisition refers to the learning of another language or languages besides the native language.

c)

First language refers to the memorization of words, inflected words, and syntactic rules and uses them to translate from native to target language and vice versa.

10.

Affective fliter hypothesis deals with affective variables that influence second language acquisition. Which of the following is not part of the variable?

a)

Motivation

b)

Certainty

c)

Self-confidence

d)

Anxiety

11.

What is second language acquisition?

a)

What manner in which a child learns their native tongue.

b)

The learning process of grammar rules.

c)

The process of learning a second language different from your native language.

d)

Choosing to ignore grammar to communicate with native speakers more efficiently.

12.

What is the natural order hypothesis?

a)

The natural order hypothesis states that all learners acquire the grammatical structures of a language in roughly the same order.

b)

The natural order hypothesis basically explains that language cannot be learned if a learner is blocking the learning process.

13.

According to the Krashen’s Monitor Theory, which term argues that emotions can be described as an imaginary barrier?

a)

Affective Filter

b)

Input

c)

Monitor

d)

Natural order

14.

What is the main premise of the Natural Order Hypothesis?

a)

Grammar and language rules are acquired in a predictable order.

b)

Grammar and language rules are learned in a predictable order.

c)

Grammar and language rules are acquired in reverse order of the first language.

d)

Grammar and language rules are acquired in a random order.

15.

This is the receptive moment where the learners acquired some language by listening and understanding without producing.

(a)