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Worksheetssociolinguistics week 6 Bayley..Villarreal
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
language attitudes are......
affective,
behavioral,
cognitive
an umbrella term that includes languages and dialects, but avoid negativity of the term dialect
variety
variant
accent
Braj Kachru’s (1985) influential “circles of English” model has got ..................circles
one
two
three
Select an inner-circle country
Korean-English
British English
Singaporean-English
Select an outer-circle English variety
Uzbek-English
Australian
Nigerian-English
Select an expanding circle English
Ukrainian-English
American English
South African English
The difference in the classification of -in and -ing in the verb like walkin and walking is that.................
the first is traditional, the other is modern
the former is informal, the latter is formal
the first is acceptable, the other is unacceptable
There is a correlation between vowel duration in one's pronunciation with their intelligence
True
False
Sometimes
Two negatives make positive is not only mathematical rule, it is also grammatical rule
True
False
Baugh (2007) found that speakers who were perceived as sounding African American or Chicano were less likely to do sales negotiations on housing
True
False
Sometimes
Research in a number of contexts has shown that teachers’ classroom discourse is often less standard than most native speakers
True
False
Students of immersion classrooms who studied very formal language tend to use their English only in the classroom. Outside they used their L1 in communication
True
False
“bad English.” can be described as........
“broken,”
lacking in grammatical rules,
unintelligible,
Singaporean government promotes Singlish (Singaporean English)
True
False
Language Attitude may influence on one's understanding of an accent
True
False
