Applied Linguistics Teza mid term 2

1. What is Applied Linguistics according to Wilkins

a) It is using what we know about language, how it is learned and how it is used, in order to
achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world.
b) It is concerned with increasing understanding of the role of language in human affairs and
thereby with providing the knowledge necessary for those who are responsible for taking
language-related decisions whether the need for these arises in the classroom, the
workplace, the law court, or the laboratory.
c) 1 & 2 C

2. Which is the primary concern of applied linguistics?

a) Second language acquisition theory, second language pedagogy and the interface between
the two.
b) Cases where language goes wrong.
c) A & B C

3. When did the major attempts at linguistic description begin to occur?

a. In the second half of the eighteenth century

b. In 1755, with Samuel Johnson Dictionary of the English Language
c. In 1762 when Robert Lowth published ‘Short Introduction to English Grammar’
d. A,B and C D
4) Why were English grammar rules much too rigid to describe actual language usage?

a) English is a Germanic language

b) English was described by a linguistic system borrowed from Latin, which had previously
borrowed the system from Greek.
c) English was prescriptive rather than descriptive
d) B & C D

5. At the beginning of the century, second languages were usually taught by:

a)Grammar translation method A

b)Communicative grammar method
c)Text based method

6. Which was one of the main problems with Grammar-translation?

a) The fact that it focused on the ability to ‘analyze’ language, and not the ability to ‘use’
it.
b) the emphasis was on reading and writing
 c) A & B C

Which was one of the main problems with The Direct grammar teaching
method?
a) It required teachers to be highly proficient in the target language A
b) Its focus was squarely on use of the second language

7. What does the concept of communicative competence emphasize?

a) It emphasizes that language competence consists of more than just being able to ‘form
grammatically correct sentences but also to know when and where to use these sentences
and to whom’ communicative competence’, A
b) It emphasized that language competence consists of forming grammatically correct
sentences
c) It emphasized that language consists of knowing when and where to use the sentences
and to whom.

8. Which were the types of function identified by Halliday:

a) ideational (telling people facts or experiences)

b) interpersonal (maintaining personal relationships with people)
c) textual (expressing the connections and organization within a text, for example,
clarifying, summarizing, signaling the beginning and end of an argument).
d) A,B,C D
9. Today Computer assisted language learning:

a. Has the greatest impact on applied linguistics

b. is one of the more dynamic areas in applied linguistics B
c. A and B