Southern Baptist College

Bialong, Mlang, Cotabato

College of Education

MTB-MLE 1011

Name: Ryan Dexter G. Roche Score:________

I- Answer True if the statement is correct and False if it is wrong.

True 1. Language differences might even occur within the family.

True 2. If an idea or impression is vague in a speakers mind, the resulting message

will be confused and ambiguous.

True 3. As we think, read, travel, make friends, the association and connections that
words have for us does not change.

False 4. The worlds of adult are the same from the worlds of children and
adolescents.

True 5. According to Deborah Tannen, men and women have almost completely
different styles of speaking.

False 6. Dialect is the primary tool in the communication process.

False 7. Impression of personality are often related to verbal style.

False 8. When you shift roles, your language environment and your speech will

not change.

True 9. Most language environments have words that are specialized and are

used only in those environments.

False 10. False cognates are words that share similar meaning or spelling in two or
more languages.

II- Identify the following. Choose your answer from the box.
Deborah Tannen rapport-talk Gender social Status

Cognates Style Euphemism Neil Postman

Report-talk verbal style religion age

age 1. It is one of the factor that determine difference in language style.

Style 2. It the result of the way you select and arrange words and sentences.

Report-talk 3. Men speak with ______________.

Deborah Tannen 4. She believes that gender-specific language begins in childhood and that
children learn if from their peers.

verbal style 5. It is often connected is often connected with the roles you play.
rapport-talk 6. Women use the language of _________________ when they have conversation.

social Status 7. Scholars have identified variations in language styles of people depending
on
their ______________.

euphemism 8. An offensive word or phrase that is substituted for other words that

might be perceived as unpleasant.

religion 9. Language and __________ offer an innovative theory of religion as a class of

cultural representations dependent on language to unify diverse capacities of
the human mind.

Cognates 10. From the Latin cognatus which means blood relative.

III. Enumerate the following:

1. 5 Elements of Language
1.Phonology
2.Morphology
3.Syntax
4.Semantics
5.Pragmatics

2. 4 Elements of Language environment

1.People
2. Their purpose
3.The rules of communication by which they achieve their purpose.
4.The actual talk used in the situation

IV. Give 4 English words with their equivalent words in Spanish Filipino and your Mother
Tongue.

English Spanish Filipino Mother Tongue

Snake Serpiente Ahas Man-og
Child Nin`a/Nin`o Anak Bata
Foot pie Paa tiil
Cry ilorar umiyak Hibi