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Language, Culture, and Society

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words.

a)

Writer

b)

Language

c)

Linguistics

d)

Ethnolinguisitcs

2.

Words can be combined into sentences, and this combination would answer ideas and thoughts. This sentence signifies a very coherent interpretation of Language in consonance with the usage of words.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe

d)

Uncertain

3.

A language is set of vocal symbols by means of which social group cooperates.

a)

Adaptation

b)

Coherence and Cohesion

c)

social influx

d)

arbitrary

4.

The picture signifies:

a)

okey

b)

nonverbal

c)

verbal

d)

words

5.

These are most referred to listening, speaking, reading and writing in English language.

a)

Marco Skills

b)

Micro Skills

c)

Linguistics

d)

Anthropological Linguistics

6.

This is a communication technique that requires the listener to understand, interpret and evaluate what he or she hears. It effectively improves personal relationships through the reduction of conflict and strengthens cooperation through a collective understanding.

a)

Reading

b)

Listening

c)

Understanding

d)

Viewing

7.

It is a vocalization of human communication. Being able to iterate an idea, concept or opinion etc. through speech is essential in the communicative process. Being able to relate what you are thinking in effective, and concise.

a)

Listening

b)

Viewing

c)

Writing

d)

Speaking

8.

It is the representation of language in text form.

a)

Writing

b)

Reading

c)

Understanding

d)

Listening

9.

Communicative language teaching involves developing language proficiency through interactions embedded in meaningful contexts.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Uncertain

d)

Maybe

10.

It is the central concept of the communicative approach to language teaching :

a)

Communicative Competence

b)

Performance Based

c)

Verbal Manifestation

d)

Gestural Analysis

11.

It is the learner’s ability to understand and use language appropriately to communicate in authentic (rather than simulated) social and school environments.

a)

Communicative Competence

b)

Performance and Attitude

c)

Strategic Competence

d)

Sociolinguistic Competence

12.

Which of the following is NOT INCLUDED IN LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE:

a)

VOCABULARY

b)

SYNTAX

c)

MORPHOLOGY

d)

PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATION

13.

It originated in response to perceived inadequacy of the notion of linguistic competence.

a)

Communicative Competence

b)

Strategic Competence

c)

Linguistic Competence

d)

All of the choices

14.

Socio-linguistic is having, EXCEPT:

a)

social rules in using a language

b)

has knowledge on cultural references

c)

nonverbal behaviors

d)

cohesive and transitional devices

15.

communicative competence encompasses a language user's grammatical knowledge of :

a)

syntax

b)

morphology

c)

phonology

d)

all of the choices

16.

language teaching and learning practices have been influenced by three different views of language, namely:

a)

structural

b)

functional

c)

interactional

d)

all of the choices

17.

This view on language considers language as a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people.

a)

Functional

b)

Interactional

c)

Structural

d)

Reflexive

18.

It sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystem: from phonological, morphological, lexical, etc. to sentence. This suggest what view on language:

a)

Structural

b)

Integrative

c)

Interactional

d)

Functional

19.

As an analytic language, English uses this order to determine the relationship between different words

a)

phonology

b)

syntax

c)

semantics

d)

pragmatics

20.

It is used to signify pauses, intonation, and stress words.

a)

vocal manifestation

b)

punctuation

c)

referrent

d)

verbal sync

21.

It is nobody's language.

a)

creole

b)

pidgin

c)

basic vocal sync

d)

assimilation

22.

This linguistics is concerned with established norms of correct usage of language or grammar.

a)

diachronoc

b)

myopsis

c)

prescriptive

d)

anthropological

23.

It focuses on describing the language as it is used, not saying how it should be used

a)

Descriptive

b)

synchronic

c)

Phology

d)

Semantics

24.

It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages.

a)

pragmatics

b)

linguisctics

c)

language

d)

oral means

25.

To perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that performs the functions.

a)

True

b)

Maybe

c)

False

d)

Communication competence instead of functions