3. What does the acronym 'ESL' stand for?

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English Majors Review Test Part I
(Morning) English as Second Language

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4. What does the acronym 'L1' stand for? 0/1
said address.

First Language or Native Language

Email * Correct answers

first language
maryelizabethmuga@gmail.com
language 1

language one

1. What does the acronym 'TESL' stand for? 0/1

Teaching English as a Second Language

5. What does the acronym 'FL' stand for? 0/1

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Foreign Language
teaching english as a second language

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foreign language

2. What does the acronym 'TESOL' stand for? 0/1

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language

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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

6. This refers to the phenomenon of competence in reading and writing 0/1 8. The study of language in relation to social factors including differences 1/1
two scripts of the same language. of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and
bilingualism.

biscripturalism
microlinguistics
bimodality
macrolinguistics
bilingualism
sociolinguistics
multimodality
semiotics
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biscripturalism

9. Is the process that results from contact of two or more languages in a 0/1
context where languages needs can or must be satisfied through use of a
7. Commonly defined as the use of at least two languages by an individual. 1/1 simplified code.

pidgin
biscripturalism

creole
bimodality

language
bilingualism

dialect
multimodality

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pidgin
 10. Is a process where speakers develop an elaborated code that can 0/1 13. The founder of the theory that believes in the idea that language is 1/1
accommodate the full range of life's functions. innate and the notion that language acquisition occurs during critical
development stages. (Universal Grammar)

pidgin
Lev Vygotsky
creole
Jean Piaget
language
Stephen Krashen
dialect
Noam Chomsky
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creole

14. Background knowledge and expectations about what is being said or 0/1
written is used to understand the message.
11. The theory which believes that children are active learners and learn 1/1
through assimilation and accommodation. Bottom-up Processing

Top-down Processing
Sociocultural Theory
Parallel Processing
Cognitive Theory
Vertical Processing
Language Theory

Needs Theory

12. The professor who theorized the approach in number 11. 1/1

Lev Vygotsky

Jean Piaget

Stephen Krashen

Noam Chomsky

15. The use of verbal cues from the input to attend to micro-features of 0/1 17. Classroom device or activity and thus represents the narrowest of the 1/1
text such as the form of individual words and grapheme/phoneme concepts.
connections.

Approach
Bottom-up Processing
Method
Top-down Processing
Technique
Parallel Processing
Principle
Vertical Processing

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Bottom-up Processing 18. The theory which believes that children perform difficult tasks with the 0/1
help of a more advanced individual.

Scaffolding
16. Represent language teaching philosophies or theories that can be 0/1
Zone of Proximal Development
interpreted and applied in a variety of ways in the classroom.
Universal Grammar
Approach
Socio-cultural
Method
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Technique
Zone of Proximal Development

Principle

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Approach
 19. In Vygotsky's theory, this occurs through the support of the more 1/1 22. Lessons are in the target language, there is focus on everyday 1/1
‘knowing other’, or ‘knowledgeable other’. vocabulary and accuracy of pronunciation.  

Scaffolding Direct Method

Learning The Silent Way

Facilitating Affective-Humanistic

Supporting Reading Approach

20. A model which allows for the simultaneous processing of bottom-up 1/1 23. Reading was viewed as the most usable skill. Grammar useful in the 1/1
and top-down linguistic information. reading comprehension is taught.

Bottom-up Processing Direct Method

Top-down Processing The Silent Way

Parallel Processing Affective-Humanistic Approach

Vertical Processing Reading Approach

21. Vocabulary is taught in the form of word lists and elaborate 1/1 24. Mimicry and memorization are used, based on the assumption that 1/1
explanations of grammar are always provided. language is habit formation. Skills are sequenced: listening, speaking,
reading, writing postponed.
Audio-Lingual Method
Audio-Lingual Method
Grammar-Translation Method
Grammar-Translation Method
Task-based Approach
Task-based Approach
Lexical Approach
Lexical Approach

25. Focus is on reading and writing. Pronunciation is not emphasized. 0/1 28. Makes use of music, a comfortable and relaxing environment, and a 1/1
relationship between the teacher and the student that is akin to the parent-
child relationship.
Total Physical Response (TPR)

Natural Approach Suggestopedia

Cognitive Approach The Silent Way

Drill Approach Total Physical Response

Correct answer Task-based Approach

Cognitive Approach

29. The teacher should be as silent as possible in order to encourage the 1/1
learner to produce as much language as possible.
26. It concentrates on developing learner’s proficiency with lexis, or word 1/1
combinations.  
Suggestopedia

Audio-Lingual Method The Silent Way

Grammar-Translation Method Total Physical Response

Task-based Approach Task-based Approach

Lexical Approach

27. Peer support, interaction and respect is emphasized. 1/1

Direct Method

The Silent Way

Affective-Humanistic Approach

Reading Approach
 30. Conscious learning operates only as a monitor or editor that checks or 0/1 32. It is a branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of words and 1/1
repairs the output of what has been acquired. (The monitor hypothesis.) language.

Total Physical Response (TPR) Phonetics

Natural Approach Phonology

Cognitive Approach Morphology

Drill Approach Syntax

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Natural Approach
33. It is a branch of linguistics that deals with how phrases, clauses and 1/1
sentences are constructed and combined in particular languages.

31. Linguistics can be defined as any of the following EXCEPT – 0/1 Phonetics

Phonology
study of particular languages
Morphology
study of what language should be
Syntax
study of how language is put together and how it functions

search for general properties common to all languages or large groups of

languages

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study of what language should be

34. When you want to find out how the same word can have different 0/1 36. Taking the mother’s perspective, what is the problem? 1/1
meanings in different settings, what branch of linguistics is this?

Your child knows what he is saying.

Morphology
Your friend might find your child rude.
Discourse
Your friend might continue taking the cookie.
Semantics
Your child might not understand why the friend is taking the cookie.
Pragmatics

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Semantics
35. For numbers 35 and 36, consider social distance and pragmatics in the 1/1
given situation: “You invited your friend over for dinner. Your child sees your
friend reach for some cookies and says, 'Better not take those, or you'll get
even bigger." Taking the friend’s perspective, what is the problem?
37. Consider social distance and pragmatics in the given situation: "You 0/1
talk with a neighbor about his new car. He has trouble staying on topic and
starts talking about his favorite TV show. He doesn't look at you when you
talk and doesn't laugh at your jokes. He keeps talking, even when you look
at your watch and say, 'Wow. It's getting late.' You finally leave, thinking
about how hard it is to talk with him." All of the following signs make you
say that the neighbor is unaware of the listener's (your) views and
monopolizes your time, EXCEPT-

You will be offended by what the child has said. has trouble staying on topic

You will offend the host by taking the cookie. talks about his car

You will offend the host if you don’t take the cookie. doesn't laugh at your jokes

You will be afraid to offend the child by taking the cookie. doesn't look at you when you talk

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talks about his car

 38. “The English word 'untied' is really made up of three parts, one referring 1/1
to the process of reversing an action (un-), one indicating the action of
twisting string-like things together so they stay (tie), and the last indicating
that the action happened in the past (-d).” This is something that you study
under...
40. The Categories of Illocutionary Acts was proposed by John Searle to 0/1
group together closely related intentions for saying something. Which
category refers to the use of an utterance used to change the status of
some entity?

Representative
Phonology
Expressive
Morphology
Declaration
Semantics
Question
Syntax
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Declaration

39. Which statement best describes Sociolinguistics? 1/1

Some language changes happen because of slow (maybe incremental) changes

41. Conversational Maxims are rules that are observed when 1/1
within the language, such as in pronunciation or in the meaning of a word. Other communication takes place in a situation where people are cooperative.
changes happen because of contact with speakers of other languages. Which maxim includes rules that state a participant’s contribution should
be as informative as possible?
Language use symbolically represents fundamental dimensions of social
behavior and human interaction. The notion is simple, but the ways in which
language reflects behavior can often be complex and subtle.
Maxim of quality
Looks more at the relationship between speaker and listener which allows
Maxim of manner
assumptions to be made about the intended message, considering, for example,
the way context contributes to meaning.
Maxim of quantity
There are common patterns among even unrelated languages, and many linguists
believe this is the result of general principles which apply to most, if not all, Maxim of relation
languages.

42. Which maxim includes rules that state a participant’s contribution 0/1 44. It is an act of affecting someone (i.e., the listener); or the effect on the 0/1
should be direct, not obscure, ambiguous, or wordy? hearer of what a speaker says.

Maxim of quality Locutionary force

Maxim of manner Illocutionary act/force

Maxim of quantity Perlocutionary act

Prelocutionary act
Maxim of relation
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Correct answer
Perlocutionary act
Maxim of quantity

45. What act is doing something? It is what the speaker intends to do by 1/1
43. Which maxim is being violated  in this statement? A: Why did you come 1/1
uttering a sentence.
late? B: I had to eat bread for breakfast.

Locutionary force
Maxim of quality
Illocutionary act/force
Maxim of manner
Perlocutionary act
Maxim of quantity
Prelocutionary act
Maxim of relation
 46. A concept in stylistics that emphasizes on a textual feature; may be
achieved through unusual or strange collocations, meaningful repetitions,
contrast, deliberate deviation from the norms/rules/ conventions.
Foregrounding
0/1 48. All of the following show the importance of Practical Stylistics EXCEPT- 0/1
It can provide the means whereby the student of literature can relate a piece of
literary writings to his own experience of language and so can extend that
experience.

It can assist in the transfer of interpretative skills, on essential purpose of literary

Collocation
education.

Diegesis
It can provide a procedure for translating literary texts.

Mimesis The focus of a literary text in itself provides a context in which the learning of
aspects of language can be positively enjoyed.
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Foregrounding
It can provide a procedure for translating literary texts.

47. It is defined as the application of concepts from linguistics and allied 1/1
disciplines in the analysis and interpretation of samples of communication 49. This refers to the indexical function of language, pointing to different 0/1
through language aspects of reality.

Pragmatics Reference

Linguistics Representation

Literary Criticism Diegesis

Stylistics Mimesis

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Reference

50. This refers to manipulating language to stand for an experience/ 0/1

situation.

Reference

Representation

Diegesis

Mimesis

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Representation

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