applied linguistics

Question 1

true or false:
guy cook’s definition of AL is the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a central issue.

Answer 1

false, Brumfit’s definition

Question 2

true or false:
brumfit’s definition of AL is the academic discipline concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision-making in the real world

Answer 2

false, Guy Cook’s definition

Question 3

true or false:
the real-world problems that Brumfit is talking about include the following: war, famine, and democracy.

Answer 3

false, success and failure, ability and disability, ethical, cultural, and gender issues, technology and lack of resources, the difficult and the simple, and the child and the adult.

Question 4

true or false:
the area that AL covers include fundamental issues such as the applications of methods and theories from linguistics

Answer 4

false, , such as multilingualism, language acquisition, second and foreign language education, literacy, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations.

Question 5

choose from the following:
diverse issues that AL covers

a) multiligualisim b) cognition c) pragmatic relations

d) cognitive science

Answer 5

D) cognitive science

Question 6

the fundamental issues that AL covers :

a) ethnography b) historical studies c) language acquisition d) sociology

Answer 6

c) language acquisition

Question 7

true or false:
applied linguistics is concerned with the distant, while theoretical linguistics is concerned with the immediate

Answer 7

false, the immediate and the distant, with applied linguistics concerned with the former

Question 8

true or false:
Applied linguistics is clearly multi-factorial in that in addition to linguistics, it draws on other disciplines, psychology, sociology, education, politics, and so on.

Answer 8

true.

Question 9

true or false:
unlike AL, theoretical linguistics can isolate itself from the daily uses of language.

Answer 9

False, Ironically, as has become clear in the last period, linguistics also needs to do the same and cannot isolate itself from the daily uses of language.

Question 10

the term…………………….expresses one type of broadening by validating often unacknowledged skilled language practices.

Answer 10

‘multiple literacies’

Question 11

true or false :

During the twenties-one century, literacy broadened its scope beyond reading and writing.

Answer 11

false, the twentieth century

Question 12

true or false”
present-day literacy means being schooled in the skills of reading and writing

Answer 12

false, in multiple literacies.

Question 13

true or false:

the relationship between the L1 and the L2, the consensus seems to be that since literacy skills transfer from L2 to L1, L1 literacy should be taught prior to, or simultaneously with, L2 literacy.

Answer 13

false, L1 to L2

Question 14

true or false:

the weak version of literacy that unless an adequate base of L1 literacy there can be no L2 literacy development.

Answer 14

false, the strong version

Question 15

a grammatical description of a language such as language teaching, syllabus design, or the preparation of teaching materials……………..

Answer 15

pedagogical grammar

Question 16

to extend our knowledge of language genre so as to add to the theoretical base of language variety is the role of applied linguists in………….

Answer 16

the workplace

Question 17

the purpose of applied linguists in the workplace is ………………………….

a) to add to the theoretical base in the language genre

b) to prevent awkwardness and non-confrontation tendencies

c) to provide the design of language-teaching materials

d) a-c

Answer 17

d

Question 18

true or false:

applied linguists who work in the workplace fielf]d often come off as patronizing and irrelevant outsiders

Answer 18

true

Question 19

true or false:
applied linguistics don’t need ‘a set of conceptual and analytic tools which are sensitive to the particular work contexts in which they work’ as it comes naturally to them.

Answer 19

false, they need

Question 20

the film crosstalk came out in………….to analyze and remedy cross-cultural communication in the workplace.

a) 1971 b)1979 c)1970 d)1977

Answer 20

b

Question 21

the film crosstalk focused on…………….

a) middle eastern migrants
b) Lebanon migrants
c) UK-born migrants
d) Asian migrants

Answer 21

d

Question 22

true or false:

Asian-English people are confused by Asian-English lack of stress patterns, while English-English people are confused by apologetic or polite and repetitive uses of English.

Answer 22

false, English-English / Asian-English

Question 23

true or false:

English-English people are confused by Asian-English appearance of not listening to what is being said.

Answer 23

false, العكس

Question 24

true or false:

English-English people are confused by Asian-English lack of stress patterns and by their wrong use of turn-taking

Answer 24

true

Question 25

true or false: Thinking about language and identity ought to improve our understanding of who we are in our own eyes and in other people’s, and consequently it should deepen our comprehension of social interaction.

Answer 25

true

Question 26

ELF stands for............

Answer 26

English as a lingua franca

Question 27

true or false: One of the by-products of the global spread of English in the second half of the twentieth-one century is the lingua franca phenomenon.

Answer 27

false, twentieth

Question 28

NNS stands for................

Answer 28

non-native speakers of English

Question 29

true or false: the variety of English used widely among non-native English speakers is authentic English.

Answer 29

false, it's English as lingua franca

Question 30

true or false: the empirical evidence exits in the Vienna–Oxford corpus of ELF is English used among NNSs (in Europe) personally rather than professionally

Answer 30

False, professionally rather than personally

Question 31

LOTEs stand for................

Answer 31

language other than English

Question 32

to determine a methodology for categorizing background and non-background speakers.................. a) applied linguistics in the workplace b) applied linguistics as an assessment for LOTE c) applied linguistics for NNS

Answer 32

B

Question 33

.................to further our understanding of language learning and illuminate the still uncharted space of language use. A) LANGUAGE PLANNING B) language testing c) language assessment

Answer 33

b

Question 34

true or false, language skills are a kind of population resources

Answer 34

true

Question 35

Whether the community has an explicit view of its language situation or not it will inevitably have a language policy that determines such matter and that process is called .............. A) LANGUAGE PLANNING B) language testing c) language assessment

Answer 35

a

Question 36

.........................means the attitudes towards languages are directed through nongovernmental institutions

Answer 36

prastatal language planning

Question 37

..............................in the sense of having official governmental bodies that take care of what to teach in schools , what language can be stated as the official language, what is the language of the majority , what can be considered as the 1st , 2nd or foreign languages

Answer 37

institutional language planning

Question 38

examples of parastatal language planning ............ a)what is the language of the majority b) publishing houses c) what can be considered as the 1st , 2nd or foreign languages

Answer 38

b

Question 39

examples of institutional language planning............... a) the BBC b) newspapers and publishing houses c)what language can be stated as the official language

Answer 39

c

Question 40

.....................to include purpose and objectives as well as content (or syllabus) and method

Answer 40

curriculum

Question 41

.....................statement of the means by which a set of objectives is to be achieved and at the same time an operational definition of how we should understand those objectives. a) language planning b) pedagogical reference c) curriculum

Answer 41

c

Question 42

ESP stands for .....................

Answer 42

English for Specific Purposes

Question 43

.....................a matter of identifying, developing, and articulating particular perceptions of teaching and learning on the one hand and seeking ways in which perceptions can be shared and sharpened through professional debate in the teaching community on the other. a) applied linguistics in the workplace b) applied linguistics as an assessment for LOTE c) applied linguistics for NNS d) applied linguistic of curriculum studies

Answer 43

d

Question 44

later exposure to a language can make a native speaker out of you. true or false?

Answer 44

false, early exposure ( childhood )

Question 45

..................measure of vocabulary in the writing of second-language learners.

Answer 45

lexical frequency profile

Question 46

language and identity are close but not always relevant to each other. true or false?

Answer 46

false, Language and Identity: are ultimately inseparable

Question 47

language is central to individual identity. true or false?

Answer 47

true

Question 48

the applied linguist categorized background and non-background speakers into ............. categories. a)1 b)4 c)3

Answer 48

b

Question 49

the development of competence in a second language requires the systematization of language inputs or maximization of planned practice. true or false?

Answer 49

false, it requires the creation of conditions in which learners engage in an effort to cope with communication’

Question 50

a period that takes place sometime during puberty and it affects our engagement with a new cognitive load. a) optimum age b) puberty age c) critical/ sensitive age

Answer 50

c

Question 51

native speakers are all the same in terms of grammar and accent and their control over performance skills in the language writing speaking and so on. true or false?

Answer 51

false, native members differ among themselves. Not only do they have different accents, they also have different grammars ,

Question 52

the role of language in a social setting.................... a) sociolinguistics b) language situation c) situations in language

Answer 52

b

Question 53

the number of mother tongues in India that Annamalai categorized was ............. a) 400 b)200 c) 4000

Answer 53

b

Question 54

the 200 mother languages belonged to ............. categories. a) 6 b) 5 c) 4

Answer 54

c

Question 55

how many people speak hindi as of 1981? a) 25 b) 255 million c) 520 million d) 250 million

Answer 55

d

Question 56

Language situations do not exist in a vacuum or in a laboratory. true or false?

Answer 56

true

Question 57

Gender in language, therefore, is more the concern of the applied linguist, while language in gender more that of the linguist. true or false?

Answer 57

gender in langauge ----> linguists langugae in gender -----> applied linguists

Question 58

High Rise Intonation appears to be preferred by the less powerful members of society. true or false?

Answer 58

true

Question 59

High Rise Intonation acts as a conscious expression of uncertainty and lack of confidence, perhaps even of subservience and deference. true or false?

Answer 59

false, unconcious

Question 60

men use high-rise intonation twice as much as women. true or false?

Answer 60

false, the opposite

Question 61

Women tend to pronounce specific vowels differently to express certain images about themselves; either to reflect certainty or uncertainty about a specific topic or in a specific context. which is often called.................... a) different language b) high rise intonation c) leading change

Answer 61

c

Question 62

In societies where there is clear societal sex-role differentiation, it is more common to find sex-preferential differences.’. true or false?

Answer 62

false, In societies where there is clear societal sex-role differentiation there are likely to be sex-exclusive linguistic differences

Question 63

in societies ‘where sex roles overlap, it is more common to find sex-preferential differences. true or false?

Answer 63

true

Question 64

Many sociolinguists have reported the use by women of more standard (as opposed to vernacular) variants than men . true or false?

Answer 64

true

Question 65

women say " i'm talkin' " while men say " i'm talking". true or false?

Answer 65

false, the opposite

Question 66

Sex (or gender) does NOT operate as a major trigger of social dialect choice. true or false?

Answer 66

false, it does

Question 67

In all languages and Societies, Men are combative where women are more supportive. true or false?

Answer 67

true

Question 68

girls do better than boys in all verbal areas of the school because they are smarter, duh! . true or false?

Answer 68

false, The explanation typically offered is that girls are more verbal than boys, that this is hard-wired into the brain.

Question 69

changing the language will not necessarily change the power imbalance. true or false?

Answer 69

false, it will

Question 70

Marital status for men is marked linguistically. true or false?

Answer 70

false

Question 71

, words of masculine gender that are commonly used to refer to people, both male and female. true or false?

Answer 71

true

Question 72

languages typically contain far more terms to describe men than women. true or false?

Answer 72

false, languages typically contain far more terms to describe women than men, usually derogatorily, and that even when they are not at first derogatory they tend over time to acquire negative connotations (e.g. harlot, tart).

Question 73

ELTS stands for ..............

Answer 73

English Language Testing Service

Question 74

includes foreign language learning and teaching, lexicography, style, forensic speech analysis and the theory of reading......................

Answer 74

applied linguistics

Question 75

[T]he study of the uses that man makes of the language endowment and of the problems that he encounters in doing so.........................

Answer 75

applied linguistics

Question 76

the application of linguistic knowledge to real-world problems … whenever knowledge about language is used to solve a basic language-related problem....................................

Answer 76

applied linguistics

Question 77

[T]he majority of work in applied linguistics has been directly concerned with lexicography, style, forensic speech analysis and the theory of reading. true or false?

Answer 77

false, concerned with language teaching and learning.

Question 78

applied linguistics is unconsciously eclectic. true or false?

Answer 78

false, deliberately eclectic

Question 79

all these are factors that applied linguists consider except: a) the psychometric or measurement b) the anthropological c) the psychological d) optimum age

Answer 79

d

Question 80

MT stands for .................

Answer 80

mother tongue

Question 81

was the relevance of the sensitive or critical period, as well as the relevance of the age of starting a foreign language to the mode of learning are relevant to ....................... a) the political b) the anthropological and cultural c)the psychological and psycho-linguistic

Answer 81

c

Question 82

the issue of the language classrooms in the school under study as independent cultural communities. are relevant to....................... a) the political b) the anthropological and cultural c)the psychological and psycho-linguistic

Answer 82

b

Question 83

French in Australia has in the last three years been under strain because of the French Government’s insistence on carrying out controlled nuclear explosions on one of its last colonial territories in the South Pacific. is relevant to ................................ a) the political b) the anthropological and cultural c)the psychological and psycho-linguistic

Answer 83

a

Question 84

LSP stands for.........................

Answer 84

language for specific purposes

Question 85

The teaching of LSP discusses what the teacher needs to know. true or false?

Answer 85

false,Teaching of LSP: what does the learner need to know

Question 86

Curriculum design: what does the teacher need to know? true or false?

Answer 86

true

Question 87

a gap (filled or unfilled) in a learner’s knowledge of the target language. a) error b) mistake c) lack of knowledge

Answer 87

a

Question 88

looking at the system of error without seeking causes yields a diachronic explanation of second-language learning stages. true or false?

Answer 88

false, yield a synchronic explanation

Question 89

language learning has a more need for testing than any other subject because it's often harder to grasp. true or false?

Answer 89

false, because the language teacher is concerned with skill as well as with knowledge. This means that there is more need for testing.

Question 90

language tests make language learning accountable by establishing what it means to ‘know’ the language. true or false?

Answer 90

true

Question 91

Tests of proficiency sample the teaching programme (syllabus, course, textbook etc.). true or false?

Answer 91

false, Tests of proficiency sample the language that is being learned

Question 92

Tests of achievement sample the teaching program (syllabus, course, textbook, etc.) that has already been agreed, a sample then of an existing sample. true or false?

Answer 92

true

Question 93

the linguists will analyze, survey, and interview while the applied linguist will test, observe, and above all evaluate. true or false?

Answer 93

true