Mcqs from the chapter "Significance of learners'errors" from the book "How

languages are learned"

Chp#1

1_ In cognitive view Noam Chomsky stated that, language learning is a process of..................

a) Habit formation
b) Rule formation
c) Grammar formation
d) Skill formation
2_ Children are born with an inherited ability to....................... Language.

a) Acquire
b) Learn
c) Use
d) Speak
3_ .................error are superficially well formed.

a) Complicated
b) Covert
c) Overt
d) Minnor
4_ Usually errors are..................

a) Grammatical
b) Syntactical
c) Systematic
d) a and c both

5_ Data made available for the students known as...................

a) Intake
b) Provided data
c) Available data
d) Input
6_ Errors occur due to.................
a) Memory lapses
b) Physical state
c) Psychological condition
d) All the answers are correct
7_ Learning a second language normally begins only...........

a) After maturational process

b) During maturational process
c) Before maturational process
d) At the end of the maturational process
8_ A child's incorrect utterancee being evidence that, he is in the process of.................
Language

a) Learning
b) Making error
c) Correcting
d) Acquiring

9_ An effective sequence is, which is ..............to learners?

a) Understandable
b) Comprehensible
c) Meaningful
d) Interpretable
10_ There is confusion related to the definitions of...............

a) Errors and lapses

b) Errors and mistakes
c) Errors and blunder
d) Errors and slip of tongue

Saliha Azam. (21)

Saleha Ashfaq. (13)

 Chp#2

Multiple choice questions from the book: Principles of language learning and
teaching

Chapter: 06 Personality Factors

01-What is affective domain in personality factors?

Physical side b. Emotional side c. Behavioral side

02- How many levels does Affective domain have?

05 b. 06 c. 07

03-What is the difference between self-efficacy and self-esteem?

Self-efficacy vary from situation to situation
Self-esteem vary from situation to situation
None of the above

04- ---------------- theory focus on how people explain the cause of their own
success and failure.
Temptation theory b. Navigation theory c. Attribution theory

05- The ability to understand other peoples’ feelings as if we were having

them. This sort of feelings will be called as --------------.

Sympathy b. Empathy c. Condolence

06- An individual who easily adopt any company and become frank are
mostly called ------.
Extrovert b. Introvert c. Backward

07- If your friend got a reward by getting high marks that thing motivates
you that you work so hard to get a reward like that. Now which type of
motivation is this?
Constructivist b. Cognitive c. Behavioristic
08- When we internally boost ourselves for a certain goal that we have to
achieve it, then which type of motivation it will be?
Constructivist b. Cognitive c. Behavioristic

09- How many orientations are mentioned in the chapter of personality

factors?
02 b. 03 c. 04

10- When we acquire second language just for ourselves, to explore the history
and culture of the target language is called ------------.
Instrumental Orientation b. Integrative Orientation c. Assimilative Orientation
Ch#3

Choose the correct option for the following questions:

Language is systematic set of.............
Arbitrary symbols
Vocal symbols
Visual symbols
All of above

2. Language learning is getting knowledge of language through ...............

Instructions
Study
Experience
All of above

3. Behaviorism is theory taken from psychology to take into account...............

First language acquisition

Second language acquisition
Change in the behavior of learners
Both a and b

4. Behaviorism says that learning is change in the behavior brought about by...............

Imitation
Habit formation
Stimulus response activities
All of above

5. The start of generative linguistics was emerged in...............

1960s
1970s
1950s
1980s

6. The difference between parole and langue was claimed by................

Ferdinand de sassuare
Chomsky
Haliday
Jean piget

7. Meaning, knowing, and understanding are the three factors which are regarded as
significant data for study...............

In generative linguistics
In cognitive psychology
In behavioral psychology
In constructivism

8. The most important characteristic of constructivism is its integration of...............

Social, linguistic and psychological paradigms

Cognitive, social and psychological paradigms
Linguistic, cognitive and behavioral paradigms
All of above

9. The two main branches of constructivism are...............

Social and genetative constructivism

Social and behavioral constructivism
Social and cognitive constructivism
Social and linguistic constructivism

10. The concept of 'Zone of Proximal' was given by.................

Jean piget
Lev vygotsky
Halliday
Chomsky

MCQS On Chapter NO 7 Second Language Acquisition from

Applied Linguistics

Chp#4
1) The field of Second Language Acquisition has .........importance

A) Theoretical

B) Practical

C) Experimental

D) Both a and b

2) Universal Grammar is an explanation of........

A) L1

B) L2

C) Both

D) LAD

3) Instructions have a .......... effect on L2 acquisition.

A) unexpressive

B) Significant

C) Both

D) None
4) Some aspect of language are more affected by L1 influence like ......

A) Grammatical Morpheme

B) Pronunciation

C) Word order

D) both b and c

5) Instructions are ...............for learners from going through developmental

stages.

A) obviate

B) Helpful

C) Avert

D) Forestall

6) For much of the first half of the twentieth century, ---------- dominated
psychology and education.

A) Cognitive psychology

B) Psycholinguistics

C) Behaviourism

D) All

7) Which theory is related to the connection of culture and mind?

A) Sociocultural theory

B) Processibility theory

C) Connectionism

D) Interactionist perspective
8) Who claimed that errors reflect a systematic knowledge of the L2?

A) Richards

B) Selinker

C) Dulay and Burt

D) Corder

9) Spanish L1 learners lack the stage of -----

A) pre-verbal negation

B) Fronting

C) Inversion

D) Complex questions

10) The edition 2008 of the review to SLA has more than --------- publications.

A) 2500

B) 2600

C) 2700

D) 2800
____________________________________

Principles Of Language Learning And Teaching

TASK # 9
Multiple Choice Questions
Chp#5
TICK (() THE CORRECT OPTION FROM THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS GIVEN
BELOW THE STATEMENT.

There are two basic situations in which a child may learn two (or more) languages at the
same time.
Each person speaks one language only to the child
Each person speaks two different languages to the child
Both
A group of people selected to perform this task
In sequential bilingualism young children are said to pass through_____common stages.
4
5
6
none of them
What are the varieties of bilingualism?
Spoken
Written
Spoken, written, sign and comprehension.
Only comprehension
Language in all its complexity can be acquired through a variety of modalities-
Sound
Visual motion (signs)
Listening
All Of Them
Some people believe that if a second language is learned at an early age, it can be
harmful in two main respects.
The learning of second language would retard or negatively influence the learning of the native
language.
It would intellectually retard the development of thinking and of such cognitive capacities as
mathematics and reading
Both a and b
It would harm one’s cultural values.

Bilingualism promoted in :
1950
1960
1920
1980
Which of the following is a correct formula for bilingualism.
1P- 1L
3P-1L
1P-3L
All
When a mother speaks Spanish while a father speaks English, this type of bilingualism
is:
Sequential Learning
All-together Learning
Simultaneous Learning
Both b and c
Code-switching is……
Two sentences in various languages.
One sentence in two languages.
Two sentences in two languages.
Both a and c
A simultaneous triangular case is.
(3P-3L) *1
(1P---1L) *3
(1P-3L) * 3
(3P-1L) * 3

Chp#6

1.How many proposals are given for class room teaching

A 6( Right Answer )

B7

C4

2:The proposal that chaterizes more on second and foreign language instructions than any other kind is

A two for one

B Get is right from the beginning(Right answer)

C None

3:Two for one approach reffered to as

A subject based instruction

B education based instruction

C content base instruction(Right answer)

4:Grammer translation apporach provides students withintensiye

A grammer

B vocabulary

C both a and b(right option)

5:Let's talk apporach emphasize on

A talking

B listening

C none(right option)

6:. The grammar translation approach is useful for the study of grammar and

A vocabulary

B. Text

C . Cultural text

7 .One of the best-known variations on the 'Just listen ... and read' proposal is

called ..........

A . Audiolingual pattern drill

B. Total Physical Response

C . Just listen and read

8. Michael Sharwood Smith coined the term........

A . Input enhancement

B . Output enhancement

C . Both a and b

9 . Comprehension of meaning ful language is ...... for language acquisition .

A . Critical

B. Crucial
C. Foundation

10 . Content-based instruction has many .......

A . Advantages

B . Functions

C . Demerits

Chp#7

1) Reading for understanding is a process requiring ---- and ---- processing and the
construction of the summary version of what the text means.

a- Visual and semantic

b- Semantic and pragmatic

c- Text and interpretation

d- Both a and b

2) L2 readers usually acquiring a ----- ability that is in some ways distinct from L1
reading.

a- Common

b- Complex cognitive

c- Random

d- None
3) Koda (2005) makes the case that ----- word recognition in second language
reading must be viewed as a major factor in its own right and not just as a facet of
overall second language proficiency.

a- Recognition differences

b- Orthographic differences

c- Word recognition

d- Both a and c

4) Wade-Woolley and Shany have focused on ----- learning to read simultaneously

in English (L1) and Hebrew (L2)

a- Adult readers

b- Old readers

c- Both a and b

d- Young learners

5) Laufer addressed the question in terms of percentage of ------ necessary for

comprehension of academic literature by native speaker of Hebrew and Arabic in
a university EAP course.

a- Text lexis

b- Text analysis

c- Text interpretations

d- None

6) Two studies suggest that dictionary use during reading may not be facilitative
of ------ and possibly unnecessary for high- proficiency students and ineffective for
lower- proficiency students.
a- L1 reading

b- L2 comprehension

c- Both a and b

d- None of them

7) Exercises aimed that at improving ------ seem to help L2 learners, in particular

those who have already developed their word recognition skills.

a- Comprehension rate

b- Interpretation rate

c- Reading rate

d- Social practice

8) The language ------- maintained that some minimal threshold of proficiency in

the L2 must be attained in order for the reader's first language reading skill to
transfer reading in the second language.

a- Threshold hypothesis

b- Interdependent hypothesis

c- Context hypothesis

d- Social hypothesis

9) Appropriate -------- about the topic being read help learners understand the
reading better. It is important element in reading comprehension, but only one of
many.

a- Strategies of knowledge

b- Background knowledge

c- Cultural content
d- Familiar passages

10) In the 1980s, researchers pointed out the importance of ------- as a factor that
influence students' reading abilities.

a- Asserted text

b- Regulation

c- Control

● Meta cognition
Chap#8

Chapter # 5 Social factors, Interlanguage and Language learning

MCQ's

1. The concept of interlanguage is proposed for the analysis of ___________.

(a) first language (b) second language (c) lingua franca (d) none of these

2. ____________ emphasizes that the factors involved are so variegated that their interplay
can't be summarized by a single formula.

(a) Krashen (b) David (c) Kloss (d) Chomsky

3. ____________ varieties of English are the product of particular settings for language
learning.

(a) immigrant (b) linguistic (c) both (d) noneof these

4. The notion of ___________ is basic for a description of dialects of English.

(a) Intralanguage (b) interlanguage (c) both (d) none of these

5. The non-standard form of English has functions related to __________.

(a) informality (b) formality (c) both (d) none of these

6. Pidgin as a _________ spoken as a second language.

(a) first language (b) linguistic behaviour (c) lingua franca (d) none of these
7. Creole as a __________ which has developed out of an original pidgin.

(a) first language (b)second language (c) lingua franca (c) none of these

8. The needs for __________ and lexical borrowing are related to social needs for language.

(a) lexical choices (b) linguistic change (c) behavioural change (d) grammatical change

9. The different learning goals influence the _________ of the learner's language.

(a) nature (b) interest (c) both (d) none of these

10. A local variety of English is influenced by the __________ of language.

(a) learner (b) perception (c) both (d) none of these

Chapter:- Reading Principles and writing

Chp#9

01. English ------- and -------- are unpredictable.

a. Phonology, etymology b. Etymology, orthography

c. Phonemes, words d. Phonology, orthography

02. Reading is based on --------

a. Speaking b. Writing

c. Listening d. communication

03. Decoding method believes in ---------

a. Compiling the phonemes b. Joining the alphabets

c. Decaying word into phonemes d. None

04. Decoding method is helpful for children in-----------

a. Meaning recognition b. Spellings recognition

c. Grammar enhancement d. Comprehension

05. Fluent readers mostly adopt ---------- method.

a. Whole-word approach b. Meaning recognition method

c. Decoding method d. Direct method

06. According to the whole word approach, reading should be based on ---------

a. Speech production b. Speech understanding

c. Speech analysis d. Communicate interaction

07. Word identification process of the children believes in ---------

a. Spellings of words b. Understanding meanings

c. Providing physical demo d. All

08. The morphemes, syntax, semantics of a native language of a child develops -------

a. Through conscious learning b. By repeated exposure to L1

b. Through semiconsciousness d. By comparison of L1 and L2

09. Young children can acquire ------------ vocabulary items in a short time.

a. Hundred b. Five hundred

c. Thousand d. More than thousand

10. Reading is one of the four types of -------

a. Conversation b. Conversational tools

c. Delivering d. None

Task # 9
FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
BOOK: PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

MCQ’s

Chp#10
_________ is a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by
reinforcement or punishment.
Operant Conditioning (c) Classical Conditioning
Language Development (d) None of these
__________ is a method of teaching language that focuses on the idea that meaning of a word is
found in its function.
Classical Conditioning (c) Verbal Behavior
Operant Conditioning (d) Verbal Understanding
The term ________ is derived from fundamental assertion that language acquisition is innately
determined; we are born with a genetic capacity to acquire language.
Behaviorist (c) Nativist
Functionalist (d) None of these
_________ refers to one’s underlying knowledge of a system, event or fact. It is non-observable
ability to do something; to perform something.
Performance (c) Understanding
Competence (d) Production
_________ is the overtly observable and concrete manifestation or realization of competence. It
is the actual doing of something.
Competence (c) Both
Comprehension (d) Performance
Second stage of first language acquisition by a child is _______
Babbling (c) Sound imitation
Screaming (d) Verbal understanding
_______ is used for communication.
Language (c) Mailing
Listening (d) none of these
While learning language we first practice the separate_______, then_______, then sentences.
Words, sounds (c) sentences, sounds
Words, sentences (d) sounds, words.
Language functions appear to be controlled in ___________.
Right hemisphere (c) Left hemisphere
Lateralization (d) None of these

_______ is a term that refers to consistent and enduring tendencies within an individual.
Strategies (c) Process
Style (d) Language
Answers Key

a
c
c
b
d
a
a
d
c
b

SUBMITTED BY:
Syeda Aliya Fatima (Roll No: 09)
Arifa Fayyaz (Roll No:05)

The Deaf and Language: Oral, Sign and Written (MCQS)

Chp#11
1. With speech _______ generally do serve some function such as to emphasize a meaning or to indicate a
new information.
a. Signs
b. Gestures
c. Expressions
d. All of these

2. There are two types of sign languages: one that relates to _______ and other is Independent Sign
Language.
a. Morpheme by morpheme sign language
b. Ordinary writing-based sign language
c. Ordinary speech-based sign language
d. Spelling-based sign language.

3. Learner simultaneously acquires the morphology and syntax of both the sign and related speech-based
language through _______
a. Morpheme by morpheme (MnM) system.
b. Oral approach
c. Written language approach
d. Letter by letter system.

4. Here is the list of three basic components of Independent sign language except ________
a. Hand configuration
b. Movement
c. Place of articulation
d. Time of articulation

5. One of the foremost advocates of the oral approach was _______

a. Alexander Graham Bell
b. Edward Gallaudet
c. Thomas Gallaudet
d. Laurent Clerc

6. A sign system that uses a whole sign for each speech word or meaningful part is
a. letter by letter
b. word by word
c. morpheme by morpheme
d. none of them

7. In _____, individual words are structured together into sentences according to syntactic rules, the heart
of the grammar of a language.
a. speech-based language
b. sign-based language
c. Oral approach
d. none of these

8. _______ focuses on the teaching of speech production and secondarily on speech comprehension.
a. Oral Approach
b. Written Approach
c. speech-based language
d. sign-based language

9. The comprehension of speech is usually fostered through both exploiting any residual hearing that
learners may have and the teaching of speechreading, commonly known as
a. Written Approach
b. lipreading
c. Oral Approach
d. None of these

10. In addition to Total Communication an additional type of language, _______, must be taught.
a. Written Language
b. sign language
c. oral communication
d. both (b) and (c)

Chap#12
1. Children raised by wolves, dogs, pigs, sheep, and other animals are known as ........

a ) wild children

b ) feral children

c ) both a and b

2. A fascinating collection of cases related to wild children described in ...........

a ) Malson’s book

b ) George´s book

c ) none of the above

3. A fascinating collection of cases related to wild children is described in Malson’s book............

a ) Wild children

b ) Wolf children

c ) Feral children

4 . Genie was evaluated again on her language ability in

a ) 1987

b ) 1997

c ) 1977

5 . Before becoming famous as the inventor of the telephone ,Bell was a noted educator of the

a ) deaf

b ) normal children

c ) abnormal children

6 . The mother of Isabelle had sustained ............... injury at the age of 2

a ) brain
b ) vocal cord

c ) leg

7 . Isabelle because of her confinement with a..........., did not begin to learn language

a ) deaf mother

b ) mute mother

c ) blind mother

8 . In less than three months after her entrance to the hospital, Isabelle was producing

a ) sentence utterances

b ) word utterences

c ) structured sentences

9 . .......... looking for shelter, she crawled into a dog house, and for the next five years a dog helped her
survive.

a ) Isabelle

b ) Gennie

c ) Oxana

10 . The factors governing language learning is .........

a ) the age at which exposure to language begins

b ) the extent to any psychological, physical and social factor that are prior to language

c ) both a and b

Multiple choice questions

Chap#13
Individual differences are
Biological
Neurological
Psychological
Ellis categorizes these differences into
Personal factors
General factors
Both
Children store L1 and L2 information
Together
Separately
Non
Motivation involves the
Attitude
Affective states
Aptitude
a and b both
Adults store L1 and L2 knowledge
Separately
Together
a and b both
SLA research also views motivation as a key factors in
L1 learning
L2 learning
Individual learning
This refer to the degree to which individuals feel confident and believe themselves to be
significant people
Self esteem
Inhibition
Empathy
This concerns the ability to put oneself in the position of another in order to understand
him/her better
Risk taking
Tolerance of ambiguity
Empathy
Inductive language learning ability, the ability to identify
Patterns of correspondence and relations between forms and meaning
recognize the grammatical functions of words in sentences
Sounds of a foreign language
Instrumental, integrative, resultative and intrinsic are various kinds of
Aptitude
Motivation
Non

MCQs.

Chapter. " HUMAN LEARNING "

Chap#15

1) In human learning we focus on:

a) Cognitive Process
b) Ressponse process

c) Behaviourism

2) The steps of learning and training are:

a) 4
b) 5

c) 6

3) Ivan Pavlov, who at the turn of century conducted a series of experience that has come to be
labeled:

a) Modern conditioning

b) Classical conditioning
c) Early modern conditioning

4) Pavlov's classical experiences are:

a) response

b) conditioning response
c) both
5) Skinner's................. attempt to account for most of human learning and behavior:

a) response conditioning

b) operant conditioning
c) both

6) Skinner called Pavlov conditioning......

a) Respondental conditioning
b) Operant conditioning. c) both

7) ..................... are sets of responses that are elicited by identifiable stimuli

a) Cognitive

b) Respondents
c) Stimuli

8) Types of learning are...

a) principal learning

b) Concept learning

c) Verbal association

d) all of these

9) .......... is the learning of chains

a) Verbal association
b) Concept learning

c) Signal learning

d) Problem solving

10) Multiple intelligences are typically listed in Garden's work:

a) linguistic
b) logical- mathetical

c ) Musical

d) All of these

Multiple Answers

Chap#16

1: By which processes one can learn the syntax of a second language:

(a) Memory and Motor skills

(b) Induction and Episodic Memory

⬛ Explication and Induction

(d) Motivation and Attitude

2: The second language learner is always trying to figure out language by:
(a) Explication

⬛ lnduction

(c) Memory

(d) Motivation

3: How many occurrance of the sound and meaning is necessary for learning:
⬛ More than one

(b) More tha two

(c) More than three

(d) More than four

4: Which type of memory involves situation:

(a) Children's Memory

(b) Motor skills

⬛ Episodic Memory

(d) none of these

5: Motor skill tend towards the decline after the age of:
(a) 5

(b) 10

⬛ 12

(d) 15

6: In which age children have developed attitudes towards language:

(a) 2

⬛4

(c) 6

(d) 8

7: In natural situation adults are not good in:

(a) Motor Skills

(b) Episodic memory

(c) Explication

⬛ Induction

8: Generally children are not affected by:

⬛ Attitudes

(b) Motivation

(c) Motor skills

(d) Explication
9: Learning language rules by self-discovery is called:
(a) Explication

⬛ Induction

(c) Memory

(d) Motivation

10: "The use of muscle in performing certain skills" Is called:

(a) Episodic memory

⬛ Motor Skills

(c) Induction

(d) Explication

Natural grammar, mind and speaker competence (An Introduction to

Psycholinguistics)

MCQ’s

Chap#17
1) The linguist ________ neatly formulated the basic differences between linguists as a ‘God’s
Truth vs. Hocus-Pocus’ bifurcation.

a) Householder

b) Chomsky

c) Van Dijk

2) The God’s Truth approach is where the linguist attempts to describe _____________

a) language in a systematic way

b) psychological language entities.

a)none

3) Hocus-Pocus or ‘mathematical games’ approach where the linguist attempts to describe

a) language in any systematic way

b) psychological language entities

c) none

4) most linguists agree that grammar, in some way is used in the ___________processes of
producing and understanding sentences.

a) linguistic

b) social

c) psycholinguistic

5) the rules of Chomsky’s grammar i are not designed with a view to __________ but with a
view to assisting the linguist in the task of connecting the components of his grammar in accord
with the order that Chomsky has asserted.

a) assisting the linguist

b) speaker performance

c) grammatical accuracy

6) For both normal and speech-handicapped children, it is the _____________process that is

primary for language acquisition.

a) speech production

b) speech comprehension

c) none

7) Children acquire basic mental entities from the_________.

a) mental world

b) physical world

c) instinct

8) As a language, English generally relies on the ____________ to signal an argument.

a) meanings on nouns

b) meanings of verbs
c) meanings of adjectives

9) Children learn to comprehend the complexities underlying negative sentences, question

sentences, sentences with relative clauses, passives, etc. again by the process of guessing the
meanings of the ___________.

a) words being uttered

b) order of the words

c) unknown speech constructions

10) The processes of speech comprehension and speech production are incorporated in Natural
Grammar and are related to ________.

a) Central Thought

b) IQ level of children

c) Environmental conditions

Task no.9

" Multiple choice questions of Corpus linguistics "

Chap#18

1. What is Corpus ?
a. Spoken material

b. Written material

c. Lexicons

d. Both a and b

2. Which affixes are useful for academic purpose ?

a. Prefixes

b. Suffixes

c. Both a and b

d. Interfixes
3. Which word is most frequent used in English language?

a. Of

b. To

c. The

d. Is

4. Corpus linguistics is useful for......... research.

a. Qualitative

b. Quantative

c. Both a and b

d. Exploratory

5. Corpus linguistics use different methods to analyze a text....

a. Frequency

b. Collocation

c. Concordance

d. All of these

6. What is frequency ?

a. Occurrence of words in a text

b. Number of occurrence words

c. Synonyms of words

d. All of these

7. Corpus linguistics use tools to analyze

a. Text

b. Image
c. Statics

d. Graphical description

8. Corpus linguistics use... for analysis.

a. Software

b. Hardware

c. Both of these

d. Internet

9. Corpus linguistics is helpful for.....

a. Research purpose

b. Learning language

c. Academic Education

d. All of these

10. Is Corpus linguistics?

a. Branch of Linguistics

b. Tool of Linguistics

c. Discipline

d. Both a and b

MCQS Chapter 5 (Animals and Language Learning)

1. Which of the following programmes was named after the computer chimp Lana?

a. LANguage Analogue Project(correct)

b. LANgage Analysis Project

c. LANguage Acquistion Project

d. LANguage Artificial Project

2. Which of the following research/es on teaching language to dolphins are considered radically
different and more scientific?

a. Research on Elvar, the dolphin

b. Research on Akeakamai and Phoenix dolphins (correct)

c. Both 'a' and 'b'

d. None of the above

3. Irene Pepperberg used the speech mode in teaching language to Alex because of the parrot 抯:

a. Excellent vocal abilities

b. Excellent hearing abilities

c. Excellent comprehension abilities

d. Both 'a' and 'b' (correct)

4. Contemporary theorists basically offer two types of explanations on the issue of animals vs. humans
in the acquisition of language. These theories are:

a. Innatist and Pro-Intelligence

b. Rationalist and Empiricist

c. Both 'a' and 'b' (correct)

d. None of the above

5. The research with animals clearly shows that animals have only a/an ____________ language ability.

a. Advanced

b. Satisfactory
c. Average

d. Rudimentary (correct)

Chap#19

1) In a folk story, who was the one who speaks all languages of animals:

a. Hugh Lofting

b. Dr. Doolittle

c. Ute Limacher

d. Norbert Schmitt

2) Which animal was raised by psychologists as a sibling of their own kid:

a. Nim

b. Cuba

c. Gua

d. Viki

3) Who was the first signing chimp according to reported research:

a. Washow

b. Gua

c. Nim

d. Viki

4) Who regard to teach chimps human culture apart from language:

a. Nim Chimpsky

b. Noam Chomsky

c. The Fouts

d. None of the above

5) A chimp doesn't advance to produce long utterances, in Terrace's view, is:

a. They are not God-gifted.

b. Their demand can adequately be taken care of with single words.

c. Their anotmy and basic rudements are different.

d. None of the above.

Choose the right answer

Chap#20
In psycholinguistics, researchers try to develop ………….. to describe and preferably predict specific
linguistic behavior.
Theories
Models
Laws
All
Dutch psycholinguist William Levelt, used the term ………….., by which he means that this is probably the
structure of the system as it really works in the brain.
Blueprints
Features
Cerebrum
Practices
Levelt’s model is also known as:
Reading model
Speaking model
Comprehending model
Listening model
Which of them is not a component of levelt’s model?
Conceptualizer
Formulator
Articulator
Protector
The selection of the lemmas with their meaning and syntactic information leads to the formation of
the ………….. .
Deep structure
Surface structure
Upper structure
Lower structure
Levelt’s Speaking model is primarily a model of the fully competent ………… speaker
Monolingual speaker
Bilingual speaker
Multilingual speaker
All of above
Psycholinguistically, …………… and keeping languages apart are different aspects of the same
phenomenon.
Borrowing
Code switching
Bilingualism
Code alteration

. In Levelt’s description, the lemma consists basically of which part:

a semantic specification
syntactic information
pointer to a particular lexeme
All of the above
Opposite of language acquisition is:
Language attrition
Language accretion
Both a and b
None
New trends in psycholinguistics does not include a shift from:
From dialogue to monologue
From words to larger units
Integration of verbal and non-verbal aspects of language use
The added value of neuro-imaging

Key;

1- B

2- A

3- B
4- D

5- B

6- A

7- B

8- D

9- A

10- A

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