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WorksheetsSLA - Chapter 5
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The microsocial focus in SLA deals with the potential effects of different immediately surrounding circumstances, while the macrosocial focus relates SLA to broader _____, political, and educational environments.
economical
_____ involves knowing not only the vocabulary, phonology, grammar, and other aspects of linguistic structure but also when to speak (or not), what to say to whom, and how to say it appropriately in any given situation.
Communicative competence
Linguistic competence
Transitional competence
Academic competence
The term _____ community refers to a group of people who share knowledge of a common language to at least some extent.
language
history
society
geography
Saville-Troike (2003) defined communicative competence as “what a speaker needs to know to communicate _____ within a particular language community”.
appropriately
Through a social lens, _____ typically refers to an additional language which is learned within a context where it is societally dominant and needed for education, employment, and other basic purposes.
second language
library language
auxiliary language
foreign language
Through a social lens, _____ typically refers to an additional language that is not widely used in the learners’ immediate social context, but rather one that might be used for future travel or other cross-cultural communication situations, or one that might be studied as a curricular requirement or elective in school with no immediate or necessary practical application.
second language
library language
auxiliary language
foreign language
Through a social lens, _____ typically refers to an additional language that learners need to know for some official functions in their immediate sociopolitical setting, or that they will need for purposes of wider communication, although their first language serves most other needs in their lives.
second language
library language
auxiliary language
foreign language
_____ can be defined as multiple linguistic forms that are systematically or predictably used by different speakers of a language, or by the same speakers at different times, with the same or very similar meaning or function.
Variable features
Invariable features
Phonetic features
Synonymous features
_____ is a framework for study of SLA that is based on the notion that speakers usually unconsciously change their pronunciation and even the grammatical complexity of sentences they use to sound more like whomever they are talking to.
Accommodation Theory
Acculturation Theory
Sociocultural Theory
Processability Theory
From a social perspective, interaction is generally seen as _____ in providing learners with the quantity and quality of external linguistic input.
_____ typically refers to the speech from L1 speakers addressed to L2 learners that differs in systematic ways from language addressed to native or very fluent speakers.
Foreigner talk
Native talk
Children talk
Basic talk
_____ claims that modifications and collaborative efforts which take place in social interaction facilitate SLA because they contribute to the accessibility of input for mental processing.
Interaction Hypothesis
Markedness Differential Hypothesis
Identity Hypothesis
Critical Period Hypothesis
_____ is an approach established by Vygotsky which claims that interaction
not only facilitates language learning but is a causative force in acquisition. Further, all of
learning is seen as essentially a social process which is grounded in sociocultural settings.
Sociocultural Theory
Stimulus-response Theory
Processability Theory
Accommodation Theory
_____ typically refers to the link between a person’s current mental state and higher order functions that is provided primarily by language.
Symbolic mediation
Symbolic action
Symbolic mitigation
Symbolic mention
_____ is an area of potential development where the learner can only achieve that potential with assistance. It is part of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory.
The term "_____" can be referred to as verbal guidance which an expert provides to help a learner perform any specific task, or the verbal collaboration of peers to perform a task which would be too difficult for any one of them in individual performance.
Scaffolding
_____, a framework for analysis of language and its functions established by Hymes (1966), relates language use to broader social and cultural contexts, employing ethnographic methods of data collection and interpretation to study of language acquisition and use.
Sociolinguistics of communication
Phonetics of communication
Ethnography of communication
Syntax of communication
_____ is an approach in research and theory that allows exploration of issues
such as how identity, status, and values influence L2 outcomes and why.
Social Psychology
Sociocultural Theory
Multidimensional Model
Parallel Distributed Processing
Schumann’s (1978) theory that identifies group factors such as identity and status which determine social and psychological distance between learner and target language populations. He claims these influence outcomes of SLA.
Acculturation Model
Government and Binding Model
Multidimensional Model
Principles and Parameters model
A French person studies German for six years because the school system requires it.
In this scenario, German is _____.
Foreign language
Second language
Auxiliary language
Library language
A Chinese family immigrates to Canada and studies English so as to enter the school systems and the work force.
In this scenario, English is _____.
Foreign language
Second language
Auxiliary language
Library language
In India, native speakers of Tamil learn English to participate in official Indian governmental proceedings.
In this scenario, English is _____.
Foreign language
Second language
Auxiliary language
Library language
According to _____ Theory, interaction is necessary for (and a cause of) language acquisition, and all of learning is a social process.
Sociocultural
Psychological
Behavioural
Structural
The _____ represents an area of potential development where the learner achieves more through interaction with a teacher or a more advanced learner.
_____ bilingualism is where members of a dominant group learn the language of a minority without threat to their L1 competence or to their ethnic identity. _____ bilingualism is where members of a minority group learn the dominant language as L2 and are more likely to experience some loss of ethnic identity and L1 skills.
Additive - Subtractive
Subtractive - Additive
Coordinate - Subordinate
Subordinate - Coordinate
