BESTLINK COLLEGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

#1071 Brgy. Kaligayahan, Quirino Hi-way, Novaliches, Quezon City

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

VISION MISSION
The College of Teacher Education of Bestlink College of the To provide quality education in this college that aims to
Philippines is committed to produce teachers in the
provide and promote quality education for the future teachers with
international community which are globally competitive.
unique, modern,
and research-based curriculum geared towards academic excellence

PRELIM EXAMINATION: 2nd SEMESTER A.Y. 2019-2020

EM1: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
General Direction: All answers should be written in the test booklet. Do not mark/write the questionnaire.
I. Multiple Choice: Read each sentence/situation carefully and select the correct answer among the choices and
write its corresponding letter.
1. Which kind of individual is the mission of Bestlink College of the Philippines to produce?
a. superior and egotistic individuals c. self-support and self-employed individuals
b. self-motivated and selfish individuals d. self-motivated and self-directed individuals
2. Which of the following words belongs to Bestlink College of the Philippines philosophy?
I. Collaboration II. Peace III. Faith IV. Reason

a. III, I, IV c. III, IV, II

b. II, IV, I d. I, and IV only
3. Who is the president of the Bestlink College of the Philippines?
a. Dr. Maria M. Vicente c. Dr. Marian M. Vicente
b. Dr. Amy W. Vicente d. Dr. Vicky M. Vicente
4. The following are the aims of the Bestlink College of the Philippines EXCEPT:
a. God-fearing c. successful citizens
b. rich and powerful d. academic excellence
5. Which of the following best describes a student of Bestlink College of the Philippines?
a. Individuals who are technological and research inclined
b. Individuals who are geared in the excellence
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
6. It is a system of communication, a medium of thought and social interaction.
a. Linguistics b. Language c. Displacement d. Linguist
7. These are the people who are studying linguistics.
a. Engineer b. Physicist c. Linguist d. BCP Students
8. He is the proponent of behaviorist learning theory and operant conditioning.
a. B.F. Skinner b. John Locke c. Rene Descartes d. Noam Chomsky
9. He is the proponent of Monitor Model.
a. Steven Krashen b. Stephen Krashen c. Stephanie Krashen d. Steve Krashen
10. This is the scientific study of language and its structure, how it is puts together and its functions.
a. Linguist b. Linguistic c. Linguistics d. Linguine
11. He believed that a child is born in a blank slate.
a. John Locke b. John Lock c. Joe Locke d. Jon Locke
12. It is a type of learning theory which focuses the mind.
a. Affective learning theory c. psychomotor learning theory
b. behaviorist learning theory d. cognitive learning theory
13. He believes that there is a universal grammar.
a. Noam Chomsky b. Noah Choosy c. Noel Chuckie d. Nancy Choosy
14. All of the following are characteristics of human language EXCEPT:
a. productivity b. displacement c. duality d. cultural transcription
15. Operant condition believes that learning grew through ______.
a. killing and punishment c. reward and killing
b. reinforcement and punishment d. reinforcement and killing
16. It is a type of learning theory which focuses on the environment.
a. Monitor Learning Theory c. behaviorist learning theory
b. cognitive learning theory d. affective learning theory
17. It focuses on social and psychological aspects that influence our success.
a. Schumann’s acculturation model c. Suman’s acculturation model
b. Monitor model d. operant conditioning
 18. This is the one of hypothesis in the Krashen’s Monitor Model which view that a number of affective
variables play a facilitative, but non-causal, role in second language acquisition.
a. input hypothesis c. affective filter hypothesis
b. acquisition hypothesis d. effective hypothesis
19.This hypothesis is Krashen's attempt to explain how the learner acquires a second language – how
second language acquisition takes place. It is only concerned with 'acquisition', not 'learning'. The
learner improves and progresses along the 'natural order'.
a. input hypothesis c. monitor hypothesis
b. output hypothesis d. learning hypothesis
20. This hypothesis suggested that the acquisition of grammatical structures follows a 'natural order' which
is predictable.
a. natural order hypothesis c. input hypothesis
b. nature order hypothesis d. output hypothesis
21. Tabularasa means ________.
a. blank space b. back space c. blank state d. blank slate
22. Which of the following model was designed by Krashen?
a. Motor Model c. Monitor Model
b. Monica Model d. Monita Model
23. The following are hypothesis of Krashen’s Monitor Model EXCEPT:
a. Input hypothesis c. output hypothesis
b. natural order hypothesis d. acquisition hypothesis
24. He is the proponent of cognitive learning theory.
a. Jean Piaget b. John Locke c. B.F. Skinner d. Stephen Krashen
25. It refers to the continuity of oral and intellectual production of the person and reflects their functional
capacity when interacting in environments of the language and culture in question.
a. language policy b. language fluency c. language ability d. language fluent
26. It is a branch of linguistics which deals with the study of acoustics and sounds of human languages.
a. Semantics b. Pragmatics c. Syntax d. Phonetics
27. It is a branch of linguistics which deals with the study of sentence structure.
a. Semantics b. Syntax c. Phonetics d. Pragmatics
28. He is the father of modern linguistics.
a. Jean Piaget b. Plato c. Ferdinand de Saussure d. B.F. Skinner
29. It is an approach in linguistics which stresses the importance of language as a system.
a. Structuralism b. Functionalism c. Generalism d. Modalism
30.It is an approach of linguistics which states that the human languages can be described by means of the
generative grammar of one kind or another.
a. Functionalism b. Generativism c. Generalism d. Modalism
31. The following are types of Linguistics EXCEPT:
a. Theoretical Linguistics c. Applies Linguistic
b. General Linguistics d. Applied Linguistics
32. It is a branch of linguistics which studies the brain networks that underlie grammar and communication.
a. Neuro-linguistics b. Historical Linguistics c. Psycholinguistics d. Sociolinguistics
33. It is the study of how language is acquired.
a. Language transformation c. Language Acquisition
b. Language deliberation d. Language evaluation
34. It is the study of sentences organized into texts.
a. Discourse Analysis b. Course analysis c. Historical analysis d. Social analysis
35. He is a leader in American structural linguistics, one of the first who explored the relations between
language studies and anthropology.
a. B.F. Skinner b. Plato c. Edward Sapir d. Edward Cullen
36. It is a study of languages whose historical relations are recognizable through the similarities in
vocabulary, word formation, and syntax.
a. Sociolinguistics b. Historical linguistics c. clinical linguistics d. pragmatics
37. It is the study of utterances are used (literally, figuratively, or otherwise) in communicative acts.
a. Pragmatics b. Semantics c. Phonetics d. Syntax
38. It is the application of linguistic theory to the area of Speech Language Pathology
a. Clinic linguistics b. Historical linguistic c. Clinical Linguistics d. Historic linguistics
39. It is the study of internal structure of words.
a. Morphemes b. Morphology c. Phonetics d. Phonemes
40. It is the smallest unit of sounds
a. Phonemes b. Phonology c. Phonetics d. Phones
 41. The first Asian to receive the novel price for literature.
a. Yasunari Kawabata c. Wole Soyinka
b. Rabidranath Tagore d. Po Chu-I
42. In what Shakespeare play do the following lines appear?
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and
moving how express and admirable!
a. Hamlet b. Romeo and Juliet c. A midsummer Night’s dream d. King Henry IV
43. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Tale of Horror?
a. Bleak House b. Frankenstein c. Heart of Darkness d. Tale Tale Heart
44. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Buddhist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred
texts.
a. The Tale of Genji c. Record of a Journey to the West
b. Dream of a red chamber d. On learning to be an indian
45. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is ___________.
a. dharma b. artha c. maya d. kama
46-50. ESSAY.
Why English is considered a global language?

GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS!

Prepared by: Reviewed by:

MARY JOYCE ANNE G. BARRUN PAUL ADRIAN F. SILAWAN

Subject Professor Asst. to the Dean, CTE

Noted by:

AMELIA S. ABLEN, Ph.D.

College Dean
 BESTLINK COLLEGE OF THE PHILIPPINES
#1071 Brgy. Kaligayahan, Quirino Highway, Novaliches Quezon City

PRELIM EXAMINATION: 2nd SEMESTER A.Y. 2019-2020

EM1: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS KEY TO CORRECTION

1. D
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. D
13. A
14. D
15. B
16. C
17. A
18. C
19. A
20. A
21. D
22. C
23. C
24. A
25. B
26. D
27. B
28. C
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. A
33. C
34. A
35. C
36. B
37. A
38. C
39. B
40. A
41. B
42. A
43. B
44. C
45. C
46. – 50. Why English is considered a global language?
English is the most widely spoken language of the world because of the power the United States in
economic and politic. English is the mother tongue of 380 million people, and it is used worldwide by
the newspapers, magazines, scientists, businessmen, and politicians.