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sociolinguistics week 6 Bayley..Villarreal

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

language attitudes are......

a)

affective,

b)

behavioral,

c)

cognitive

2.

an umbrella term that includes languages and dialects, but avoid negativity of the term dialect

a)

variety

b)

variant

c)

accent

3.

Braj Kachru’s (1985) influential “circles of English” model has got ..................circles

a)

one

b)

two

c)

three

4.

Select an inner-circle country

a)

Korean-English

b)

British English

c)

Singaporean-English

5.

Select an outer-circle English variety

a)

Uzbek-English

b)

Australian

c)

Nigerian-English

6.

Select an expanding circle English

a)

Ukrainian-English

b)

American English

c)

South African English

7.

The difference in the classification of -in and -ing in the verb like walkin and walking is that.................

a)

the first is traditional, the other is modern

b)

the former is informal, the latter is formal

c)

the first is acceptable, the other is unacceptable

8.

There is a correlation between vowel duration in one's pronunciation with their intelligence

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Sometimes

9.

Two negatives make positive is not only mathematical rule, it is also grammatical rule

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Baugh (2007) found that speakers who were perceived as sounding African American or Chicano were less likely to do sales negotiations on housing

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Sometimes

11.

Research in a number of contexts has shown that teachers’ classroom discourse is often less standard than most native speakers

a)

True

b)

False

12.

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

a)

True

b)

False

13.

“bad English.” can be described as........

a)

“broken,”

b)

lacking in grammatical rules,

c)

unintelligible,

14.

Singaporean government promotes Singlish (Singaporean English)

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Language Attitude may influence on one's understanding of an accent

a)

True

b)

False