WorksheetsESOL GACE - Linguistics
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following IPA symbols represents the sound of the consonant cluster /ng/ in the word 'swing'?
[θ]
[æ]
[ŋ]
[ʃ]
Which of the following would most likely explain why a student is having problems being understood when she says the words think, wreath, the, and ruthless?
She is not distinguishing between the voiced and unvoiced /th/ sounds
She has problems making /r/ sounds
She is not putting stress on the correct syllables
She needs more instruction in semantics
In which of the following would a speaker most likely have rising intonation?
Please bring some bread
I am afraid
Frankie and Johnny are waiting outside
Do you want to watch a movie?
The underlined part of the world re'build'ing is
a bound morpheme
an affix
a diphthong
a stem or root
Which of the following statements is/are true?
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language
All words are morphemes, but not all morphemes are words
An affix is a free morpheme
Both A and B are true statements
Syntax is concerned with which of the following?
how words are combined to convey meaning
stages of second-language acquisition
ensuring transfer of language skills from L1 to L2
how words are formed into phrases or sentences
Semantics could be applied to which aspect of everyday English?
the use of quotation marks in quoted speech
the use of idioms
the pronunciation of vowels
the use of commas with conjunctions
Which of the following statements, said while eating Cajun food for the first time at a friend's house, would suggest that an ESOL student has a good grasp of connotative understanding?
This cuisine is delicious
This slop is delicious
This feed is delicious
This stuff that people and animals eat is delicious
A Spanish speaker who says, "I have fifteen years," when asked how old he is, is likely making a mistake because of
morphemes
pronunciation
metathesis
interference
Pragmatics is concerned with
the way the voice rises and falls in speech
how humans produce sounds
meaning in context
how words are constructed into phrases or sentences
While her class is working on a science project, the teacher overhears a native English speaker and a Spanish-speaking ESOL student communicate using an impromptu simple language that seems to have both English and Spanish words. What would their "language" be called?
a pidgin
a social dialect
a regional dialect
Universal Grammar
In an ESOL classroom, the teacher makes an effort to use authentic audio materials that feature English speakers from English, India, Australia, and the United States as well as nonnative English speakers from Europe and Africa. Which concept would explain why this is a good strategy?
interlanguage
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
World Englishes
Which of the four components of communicative competence would involve understanding the appropriate way for a student to speak to the principal while visiting a class at school?
linguistic competence
sociolinguistic competence
discourse competence
strategic competence
Which of the following sentences is/are correct?
You and he should go to the store.
You and him should go to the store.
Stan and him should go to the store.
A student writes the following sentence on the board: "I am going to beach tomorrow." What is the sentence mistakenly missing?
future verb tense
adverbs
determiners
a subject
Which sentence uses the present perfect verb tense?
He's been there a few times already.
Katrina thinks the present is perfect for her mother.
Juan is going to drive home tomorrow.
Sean leaves at 8:00 every day.
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: Wrapping packages for the soldiers, the kind woman tightly rolled the T-shirts to see how much space remained for the homemade cookies.
wrapping packages for the soldiers
the kind woman
to see how much space
for the homemade cookies
Which sentence is correctly labelled according to its structure?
The grandchildren and their cousins enjoyed their day at the beach (compound)
Most of the grass has lost its deep color, despite the fall lasting into December (simple)
The members who had served selflessly were cheering as the sequestration ended (complex)
Do as you please (complex)
Which sentence contains a mistake in apostrophe usage?
Stereos used to be a lot bigger.
I can't see the sign from here.
David's bag is still in the car.
Its' paw is hurt.
A students mistakenly uses the following terms: in the porch, one the basement, and around the ceiling. She needs extra practice with which point of grammar?
prepositions
conjunctions
pronouns
verbs
Which phonetic symbol represents the -a sound in the word sat?
l
e
ae
ai
Regional and social dialects are important points of study in
pragmatics
sociolinguistics
syntax
interference
Which word below uses the sound of the IPA symbol [j]?
young
jump
man
boy
In _____, the context of the situation and the communication between speaker and listener are important beyond the meaning of the words and phrases.
linguistic competence
pragmatics
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
Phonetics
What is a pidgin?
variety of a language that people in a certain region speak
grayish bird
grammatically simplified mode of communicating that may use elements of two languages
stage of first-language acquisition
In an ESOL classroom, many Spanish-speaking students routinely make mistakes saying sentences such as "Is cold today," or "Alejandra is growing. Is tall now." Teacher could guess that this interference is due to what?
prepositions in Spanish
dropped pronouns in Spanish
using gerunds in Spanish
Spanish not having noncount nouns
The area of communicative competence that deals with being able to recognize and repair instances of communication breakdown is _____ competence.
linguistic
discourse
sociolinguistic
strategic
At mid-semester, an ESOL student is socializing well with both ESOL and non-ESOL students and is excelling in sports after school. However, she is struggling in many of her content area classes. In which area is she lacking proficiency?
BICS
CALP
TPR
SIOP
A student pronounces stay as "suh-tay" please as "puh-lease" and fry as "fuh-ry." What is his problem?
transformation
elision
epenthesis
interlanguage
The underlined part of which of the following words is a derivational morpheme?
'weather'ed
weather'ed'
weather'ize'
weather's'
