Applied linguistic 2001

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01. The view of first language acqusition (FLA) as represented in a model by Chomsky (1965) is the following: ? -> LAD -> G - What is the missing component?
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  • A. Primary Linguistic Data
  • B. Universal Grammar
  • C. General Cognitive Mechanism
  • D. Linguistic Competence

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02. The capacity to understand and produce language is concentrated for most children in
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  • A. the left brain hemisphere
  • B. both hemispheres
  • C. the right brain hemisphere
  • D. brain areas not investigated yet

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03. Interference is thought to be the result of
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  • A. Negative transfer
  • B. Fossilization
  • C. Backsliding
  • D. Proactive inhibition

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04. Which personality feature is part of the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
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  • A. Anxiety
  • B. Empathy
  • C. Risk-taking
  • D. Inhibition

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05. According to the Capability Continuum Model of SLA (Tarone 1988), we can predict that the use of the third person singular -s will be most frequent in the following contexts
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  • A. simple and careful
  • B. simple and vernacular
  • C. complex and careful
  • D. complex and vernacular

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06. Chunks of language that are stored as complete or partially analysed units are called:
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  • A. formulas
  • B. prototypes
  • C. illocutionary acts
  • D. vertical constructions

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07. A model of language that views L2 acquisition as involving a complex network of interconnections between units rather than rules is referred to as
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  • A. processibility theory
  • B. the Modularity Model
  • C. parallel distibuted processing
  • D. Parameter-setting model

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08. The process by which learners utilise discourse to help them construct structures which remain outside learners' competence is described as
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  • A. inferencing
  • B. scaffolding
  • C. paraphrasing
  • D. hypothesis-testing

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09. Which theory of language acquisition accepts the notion of 'poverty of the stimulus'?
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  • A. Humanist
  • B. Error Analysis
  • C. Mentalist
  • D. Neurofunctional

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10. The use of 'writed' in place of 'wrote' is an example of
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  • A. transfer
  • B. interference
  • C. overgeneralization
  • D. overuse

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11. The vernacular is the style in which
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  • A. minimum attention is given to monitoring speech
  • B. maximum attention is given to monitoring speech
  • C. a learner uses the most comples linguistic forms
  • D. a learner uses the least complex linguistic forms

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12. Speech patterns of New Yorkers were examined by Labov (1970). Which of the following models of competence did he use?
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  • A. homogeneous
  • B. heterogeneous
  • C. dual
  • D. none of the above

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13. Indicate the one individual learner factor which can be modified?
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  • A. aptitude
  • B. age
  • C. learning style
  • D. motivation

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14. Rate and success of SLA seem to be strongly influenced by the age of the learner. Snow and Hoefnagel-Hohle (1978) found out that Duth L2 learners who learnt most rapidly were in the following age group:
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  • A. 4 to 11 years
  • B. 12 to 15 years
  • C. 16 to 21 years
  • D. over 21

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15. A field-dependent person can be characterised as
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  • A. analytic
  • B. inhibited
  • C. holistic
  • D. more successful in naturalistic SLA

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16. A sort of defensiveness associated with increased self-consciousness which discourages risk-taking necessary for obtaining input is referred to as
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  • A. anomie
  • B. alienation
  • C. empathy
  • D. inhibition

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17. Which of the following statements about the nature of "motherease" is not true?
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  • A. The way mothers talk to their children influences how correctly they use the language
  • B. The way mothers talk to their children influences how rapidly they acquire the language
  • C. Parents have a general idea of their child's linguistic ability
  • D. One of the main functions of 'motherease' is language teaching

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18. In the process of inferencing a new rule is
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  • A. derived by means of transfer
  • B. derived by means of overgeneralisation
  • C. induced from the input
  • D. induced from the output

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19. When the learner has a problem locating the required item but decides to persevere (waiting, using semantic field or other languages), he uses:
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  • A. co-operative strategies
  • B. non-cooperative strategies
  • C. reduction strategies
  • D. retrieval strategies

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20. Which of the following adjectives are marked? (1) fast (2) slow (3) young (4) old
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  • A. (1) and (2)
  • B. (3) and (4)
  • C. (2) and (3)
  • D. (1) and (4)

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21. Which of the following is not one of the typological universals?
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  • A. substantive
  • B. implicational
  • C. functional
  • D. formal

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22. What prediction can you make about the transfer from L1 to L2? (M) Marked (U) unmarked. What is X and Y?
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  • A (X=U, Y=U)
  • B (X=M, Y=U)
  • C (X=U, Y=M)
  • D (X=M, Y=M)

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23. Consciousness-raising is a type of instruction designed to make a learner aware of
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  • A. specific linguistic features
  • B. the setting of the target language
  • C. learners' needs
  • D. the nature of language learning

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24. Carroll distinguishes four components of foreign language aptitude. These are the following abilities: phonemic coding, inductive language learning, rote learning and
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  • A. language processing
  • B. grammatical sensitivity
  • C. verbal intelligence
  • D. associative learning

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25. In Krashen's view aptitude pertains to
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  • A. acquisition
  • B. learning
  • C. acquisition and learning
  • D. neither acquistion nor learning

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26. According to Cummins (1979), cognitive academic language proficiency is part of
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  • A. LAD
  • B. verbal intelligence
  • C. FL aptitude
  • D. cognitive organizer

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27. Conscious application of rules to produce and understand the L2 is referred to as
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  • A. induction
  • B. elaboration
  • C. deduction
  • D. association

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28. The learner replaces one L2 form with another (poodle>dog). This is the example of an achievement strategy referred to as
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  • A. paraphrase
  • B. substitution
  • C. word coinage
  • D. convergence

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29. Memory strategies are usually classified as
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  • A. direct
  • B. indirect
  • C. implicit
  • D. explicit

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30. Which of the following statements is not true?
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  • A. Teachers low down their rate of speech when talking to learners
  • B. Teachers use more self-repetitions with beginning learners
  • C. Formal adjustments occur at all language levels
  • D. Ungrammatical speech modifications occur at all language levels

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31. The error in the sentence 'The boy broked the window' is an example of
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  • A. omission
  • B. addition
  • C. misinformation
  • D. misordering

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32. Which theory explains SLA in terms of the degree of social nad psychological distance between a learner and the target language group?
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  • A. Accommodation Model
  • B. The Acculturation Theory
  • C. Interface Position
  • D. Neurofunctional Theory

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33. Which of the following linguists views second language acquistion in terms of conversational strategies used to negotiate meaning in constructing a discourse?
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  • A. Corder
  • B. Hatch
  • C. Rutherford
  • D. Ellis

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34. Which of the following linguists views second language acquistion in terms of a 'non-interface position'?
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  • A. Tarone
  • B. Long
  • C. Krashen
  • D. Ellis

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35. Which of the following linguists views second language acqusition in terms of a 'variable competence model'?
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  • A. Chomsky
  • B. Selinker
  • C. Larsen Freeman
  • D. Ellis

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36. The speaker-hearer's internalised grammar, according to Chomsky (1965), consists of
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  • A. a genetically endowed acquisition device
  • B. a general cognivite mechanism
  • C. mental representation of linguistic rules
  • D. comprehension and production of language

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37. In mentalist theories of language acquisition, a set of innate linguistic principles which control the form which the sentences of any language can take are referred to as
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  • A. primary lingusitic data
  • B. Language Acquistion Device
  • C. the Universal Grammar
  • D. Lingusitic Competence

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38. In which of the following statements is the incremental nature of child's language acquistion evident?
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  • A. Only homo sapiens is capable of language learning
  • B. Language exists as an independent faculty
  • C. The process of acquistion consists of hypothesis-formation
  • D. Knowledge of the grammatical system is build up in steps.

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39. The term interlanguage is also described as
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  • A. regressive competence
  • B. restructuring device
  • C. trnasitional competence
  • D. capability continuum

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40. According to Selinker (poprawione na Lenneberg), adult learners successfully achieve native-speaker proficiency by
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  • A. reactivating the latent language structure
  • B. overcoming the age of resonance
  • C. avoiding proactive inhibition
  • D. employing communiaction strategies

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41. Language-learner language is permeable (Corder 1967), which means that it is
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  • A. predictable
  • B. open to improvement
  • C. idiosyncratic
  • D. static

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42. The comprehension of the system of beliefs and values shared by the TL group participants is part of
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  • A. pragmatic competence
  • B. acculturation
  • C. situational context
  • D. pidginization

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43. When a speaker uses a rule that belongs to an earlier stage of development, he is using a strategy know as
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  • A. evasion
  • B. backsliding
  • C. back-formation
  • D. discourse repair

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44. The learner's ability to recover rules from memory and to use them spontaneously while processing utterances is known as
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  • A. channel capacity
  • B. projection device
  • C. cognitive style
  • D. processibility device

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45. Which of the following statements about cognitive organizer is not true?
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  • A. It is part of the learner's processing system
  • B. It is responsible for turning intake into output
  • C. It operates subconsiously
  • D. It is responsible for organising input into a system

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46. Some learners cease to develop while still short of target-language competence. This phenomenon is called
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  • A. amnesia
  • B. atrophy
  • C. aphasia
  • D. fossilization

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47. Strategies that children use in L1 acquistion such as 'avoidance of exceptions' and 'rearrangement of linguistic units' (Slobin 1973) are referred to as
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  • A. item acquisition
  • B. system learning
  • C. operating principles
  • D. parallel development

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48. What is accessibility hierarchy?
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  • A. The ranking of grammatical morphemes according to the accuracy with thich they occur.
  • B. The ranking of grammatical morphemes according to when each morpheme is acquired
  • C. The identification by the learner of a function performed by means of a particular form
  • D. An implicational ordering of relative pronoun functions in terms of their degree of markedness

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49. The L2 knowledge of which a learner is unaware and which he cannot verbalise is called
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  • A. implicit
  • B. explicit
  • C. implied
  • D. metacognitive

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50. The process by which speakers make their speech similar to their interlocutors' speech is referred to as
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  • A. divergence
  • B. accommodation
  • C. assimilation
  • D. convergence
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