Questão 1
Questão
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?
Questão 2
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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
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B. both hemispheres
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C. the right brain hemisphere
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D. brain areas not investigated yet
Questão 3
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03. Interference is thought to be the result of
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A. Negative transfer
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B. Fossilization
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C. Backsliding
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D. Proactive inhibition
Questão 4
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04. Which personality feature is part of the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
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A. Anxiety
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B. Empathy
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C. Risk-taking
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D. Inhibition
Questão 5
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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
Questão 6
Questão
06. Chunks of language that are stored as complete or partially analysed units are called:
Questão 7
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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
Questão 8
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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
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B. scaffolding
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C. paraphrasing
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D. hypothesis-testing
Questão 9
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09. Which theory of language acquisition accepts the notion of 'poverty of the stimulus'?
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A. Humanist
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B. Error Analysis
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C. Mentalist
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D. Neurofunctional
Questão 10
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10. The use of 'writed' in place of 'wrote' is an example of
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A. transfer
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B. interference
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C. overgeneralization
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D. overuse
Questão 11
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11. The vernacular is the style in which
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A. minimum attention is given to monitoring speech
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B. maximum attention is given to monitoring speech
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C. a learner uses the most comples linguistic forms
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D. a learner uses the least complex linguistic forms
Questão 12
Questão
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
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B. heterogeneous
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C. dual
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D. none of the above
Questão 13
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13. Indicate the one individual learner factor which can be modified?
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A. aptitude
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B. age
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C. learning style
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D. motivation
Questão 14
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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
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B. 12 to 15 years
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C. 16 to 21 years
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D. over 21
Questão 15
Questão
15. A field-dependent person can be characterised as
Questão 16
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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
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B. alienation
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C. empathy
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D. inhibition
Questão 17
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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
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B. The way mothers talk to their children influences how rapidly they acquire the language
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C. Parents have a general idea of their child's linguistic ability
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D. One of the main functions of 'motherease' is language teaching
Questão 18
Questão
18. In the process of inferencing a new rule is
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A. derived by means of transfer
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B. derived by means of overgeneralisation
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C. induced from the input
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D. induced from the output
Questão 19
Questão
19. When the learner has a problem locating the required item but decides to persevere (waiting, using semantic field or other languages), he uses:
Questão 20
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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)
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B. (3) and (4)
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C. (2) and (3)
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D. (1) and (4)
Questão 21
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21. Which of the following is not one of the typological universals?
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A. substantive
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B. implicational
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C. functional
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D. formal
Questão 22
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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)
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B (X=M, Y=U)
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C (X=U, Y=M)
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D (X=M, Y=M)
Questão 23
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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
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B. the setting of the target language
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C. learners' needs
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D. the nature of language learning
Questão 24
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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
Questão 25
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25. In Krashen's view aptitude pertains to
Questão 26
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26. According to Cummins (1979), cognitive academic language proficiency is part of
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A. LAD
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B. verbal intelligence
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C. FL aptitude
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D. cognitive organizer
Questão 27
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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
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B. elaboration
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C. deduction
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D. association
Questão 28
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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
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B. substitution
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C. word coinage
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D. convergence
Questão 29
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29. Memory strategies are usually classified as
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A. direct
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B. indirect
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C. implicit
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D. explicit
Questão 30
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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
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B. Teachers use more self-repetitions with beginning learners
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C. Formal adjustments occur at all language levels
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D. Ungrammatical speech modifications occur at all language levels
Questão 31
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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
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B. addition
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C. misinformation
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D. misordering
Questão 32
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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?
Questão 33
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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
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B. Hatch
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C. Rutherford
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D. Ellis
Questão 34
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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
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B. Long
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C. Krashen
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D. Ellis
Questão 35
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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
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B. Selinker
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C. Larsen Freeman
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D. Ellis
Questão 36
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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
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B. a general cognivite mechanism
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C. mental representation of linguistic rules
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D. comprehension and production of language
Questão 37
Questão
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
Questão 38
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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
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B. Language exists as an independent faculty
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C. The process of acquistion consists of hypothesis-formation
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D. Knowledge of the grammatical system is build up in steps.
Questão 39
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39. The term interlanguage is also described as
Questão 40
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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
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B. overcoming the age of resonance
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C. avoiding proactive inhibition
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D. employing communiaction strategies
Questão 41
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41. Language-learner language is permeable (Corder 1967), which means that it is
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A. predictable
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B. open to improvement
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C. idiosyncratic
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D. static
Questão 42
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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
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B. acculturation
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C. situational context
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D. pidginization
Questão 43
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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
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B. backsliding
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C. back-formation
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D. discourse repair
Questão 44
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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
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B. projection device
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C. cognitive style
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D. processibility device
Questão 45
Questão
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
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B. It is responsible for turning intake into output
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C. It operates subconsiously
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D. It is responsible for organising input into a system
Questão 46
Questão
46. Some learners cease to develop while still short of target-language competence. This phenomenon is called
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A. amnesia
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B. atrophy
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C. aphasia
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D. fossilization
Questão 47
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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
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B. system learning
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C. operating principles
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D. parallel development
Questão 48
Questão
48. What is accessibility hierarchy?
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A. The ranking of grammatical morphemes according to the accuracy with thich they occur.
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B. The ranking of grammatical morphemes according to when each morpheme is acquired
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C. The identification by the learner of a function performed by means of a particular form
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D. An implicational ordering of relative pronoun functions in terms of their degree of markedness
Questão 49
Questão
49. The L2 knowledge of which a learner is unaware and which he cannot verbalise is called
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A. implicit
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B. explicit
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C. implied
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D. metacognitive
Questão 50
Questão
50. The process by which speakers make their speech similar to their interlocutors' speech is referred to as
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A. divergence
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B. accommodation
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C. assimilation
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D. convergence