Questions

1. Match the following correctly:

(I) Langue / Parole                              (a) Noam Chomsky
(II) Competence / Performance          (b) C. S. Pierce
(III) Ieonic / Indexical                            (c) Ferdinand de Saussure
(IV) Readerly / Writerly                     (d) Roland Barthes
      (I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d)

2. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday.

(b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical
system
(c) It is a distinct stage in a learner’s progress in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the learner’s native or target / second language.
(A) (d) is correct.
(B) (b) is correct.
(C) (a) and (c) are correct.
(D) (c) and (d) are correct.

3. The following statements relate to the early history of the English language.
Identify the set that gives INCORRECT statements:
1. English has borrowed words such as sky, give, law, and leg from Norse.
2. English has also borrowed some pronouns like they, their, them from Norse.
3. In grammar, Modern English is much more highly inflected than Old English.
4. After the Norman Conquest, French became the language of the court, the
language of nobility and polite society, and literature.
4. Following the Norman Conquest, French virtually replaced English as the
language of the people.

6. Among the French words that came into English are: study, logic, grammar,
noun, etc.
(A) 1, 2, 3
(B) 3, 5
(C) 4, 5, 6
(D) 2, 4

5. After the Norman Conquest England became a three-language nation for at

least two centuries. The three languages were
(A) English, French and German
(B) English, Latin and German
(C) English, French and Latin
(D) English, French and Greek

6. In most people, the first language / dialect acquired is ‘mother tongue’. Among
the commonly used terms for mother tongue, one of the following is avoided.
Identify the one term NOT applied to mother tongue:
(A) First language
(B) Prime language
(C) Native language
(D) Primary language

7.Which of the following is correct as the natural order of language acquisition?

(1) Listening - Reading - Speaking - Writing
(2) Writing - Reading - Listening - Speaking
(3) Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing
(4) Reading - Listening - Speaking – Writing

8. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two
language :
I. Celtic II. Latin III. French IV. Old Norse
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II (2) II and III (3) II and IV (4) III and IV

9. Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language

family?
(1) English (2) German (3) Scandinavian (4) Finnish

10. Modern English emerged from the

(A) South Midland dialect (B) East Midland dialect
(C) French language (D) Northumbrian dialect