Revision of chapters I, II, III of Contrastive Linguistics

Chapter I. 1. What is a language? Its functions, its properties and its units.

2. What is Contrastive linguistics? And what are trends/approaches of

Contrastive linguistics? The purposes (in theoretical linguistics & in
applied linguistics.), the objectives, the agents of Contrastive linguistics.
3. What are types of languages based on structural and functional approach?
4. What are types of languages based on generative, cognitive and
pragmatic approaches?
5. Explain your understanding about the relationship among these 3 circles
in the following picture.
 6. Present your understanding about Cognitive language development.
Illustrate through examples.
7. What is Tertium Comparationis? How to establish Tertium
Comparationis? (the bases/factors)
8. Present Krzeszowski’s concept of equivalent. Illustrate through
examples.
9. What are Input, Intake and Output? Give out examples to prove your
understanding.
10.The role of native language in second language acquisition
11.What is language transfer? Positive and Negative transfer.

Chapter II. 12. What are areas of Contrastive linguistics?

13. What are models of Contrastive linguistics?

14. What are Interlingual and Intralingual Contrastive analysis? Illustrate

through examples.

15. Present characteristics of Tertium Comparationis.

16. Present stages of Contrastive study? Which stage is the most important in
your opinion?

Chapter III

17. Presents the 2 popular approaches for Vietnamese learners of English in

learning syntax: structural & functional. Give out and analyse examples to prove
your understanding.

18. What are contrastive syntatic units

Exercise (Practicing sample): Contrast and identify the similarities and

differences between two sentences (two texts) in English and Vietnamese below:

A car bomb killed fifteen people and wounded more than one hundred in
Beirut.

Một vụ đặt bom xe hơi đã làm thiệt mạng mười lăm người và làm bị thương
hơn một trăm người tại Beirut.