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Language in Society

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an idiolect?

a)

A form of language spoken by a group of people.

b)

The language of an individual speaker.

c)

A collection of dialects

2.

"Language are determined by political and social considerations".

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What is an accent?

a)

It refers to the characteristics of speech that reveal in what country the speaker grew up.

b)

It refers to the characteristics of speech that reveal in what part of the country the speaker grew up

c)

It refers to the speach of non-native speakers, who have learned a language as a second language.

d)

All mentioned are correct.

4.

Everybody has at least an informal and a formal style.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Slang is one mark of...

a)

A formal style

b)

An informal style

6.

The synthetic approach focuses on the grammatical, phonological , lexical and funtional aspect of the units of the language.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Name the three methods use to teach reading:

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