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A. Assessment
B. Behavior
C. Curriculum
D. Interaction
2.Which of the following is considered in correcting basic sight
vocabulary deficit?
A. Transformational Grammar
C. Notional Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
D. Traditional Grammar
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7. Dr. Buenafe have (instead of “has” because the
subject is singular) the materials for the painting.Which
of the following principles in grammar is applied
togiven statement?
A. Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C. Notional
D. Traditional Grammar
8. The committee has decided to give considerations
to the family.
The committee has decided to give considerations to
the family.
Based on the given statements, which of the
following principles in grammar is applied?
A. Transformational Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C. Notional Grammar
D. Traditional Grammar
9. Dr. Jadaone /threw the ball
Based on the given statement, the wholeness of the
sentence is classified as a declarative sentence
instead of the use of each word in the sentence. In
this point, wich of the following principles in
grammar is applied?
A. Transformational Grammar
b. Functional Grammar
c. National Gramar
d. Traditional Grammar
10. The sentence “She is gorgeous” can be
changed to “The woman is a
Which of the following principles in grammar
is applied?
A. Transformational Grammar
B.. Functional Grammar
C. Notional Grammar
D. Traditional Grammar
11. Janeth learns to speak in English because of the movies
she watches. Which of
the following basic principles of language learning can be
inferred from the given
statement?
A. Automaticity
B. Rote Learning
C. Strategic Investment
D. Intrinsic Motivation
15. Instead of focusing on her gestures, Mrs.
Sacatrapos delivers her speech about
communication skills and focuses on her audience.
Which of the following
principles is present in the given scenario?
A. linguistic
B. social awareness
C. sociolinguistic
D. strategic
17. The following domains for Grade 11
and 12 are included in Language Aims
curriculum EXCEPT _______.
A. vocabulary development
B. study strategies
C. reading comprehension
D. writing and composition
18. Which of the following is NOT a
component of developing a curriculum?
A. Behavioristic Orientation
B. Rational- Cognitive Orientation C.
Humanistic Orientation
D. Behavioristic-Rational Orientation
19. Which of the following is NOT a theoretical
basis for the English language curriculum?
A. Theory of Language C. Pedagogical Thrusts
B. Language Acquisition D. Structural Notion
20. Which of the following is NOT a
characteristic of the framework of
the language curriculum? :
A. Contextualized
B. Interactive
C. Integrated
D. Degenerated
21. Which is NOT true about the roles of people
involved in curriculum development?
A. Academic Rationalism
B. Social and Economic Efficiency
C. Social Reconstructionism
D. Learner-Centeredness
23. Which curriculum perspective considers
developing learner’s intellect, humanistic
values, and rationality?
A. Academic Rationalism
B. Social and Economic Efficiency
C. Social Reconstructionism
D. Learner-centeredness
24. Which curriculum perspective considers the
learner’s differences, learner’s
strategies, learner’s self-direction, and
autonomy?
A. Academic Rationalism
B. Social and Economic Efficiency
C. Social Reconstructionism
D. Learner-Centeredness
25. Which ideology of the curriculum believes
that learners should appreciate other
cultures and religions?
A. Academic Rationalism
B. Social and Economic Efficiency
C. Social Reconstructionism
D. Cultural Pluralism
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
26. What is the place of articulation
for the first sound of the following
words: team,
terrible, and tantamount?
A. Alveolar C. Interdental
B. Bilabial D. Labiodental
27. Which set of words is a minimal
pair?
A. Fair — fare
B. Grace — graze
C. Pear — pair
D. Wise — nice
28. Which of the following words
has a first sound that is characterized
as a voiceless bilabial stop?
A. Brother C. Parent
B. Mother D. Sister
29. All of the following words
contain a schwa sound EXCEPT
A. messenger C. text
B. social D. twitter
30. Which of the following sets of
words exemplifies diphthongs?
A. Incorrect C. Stressful
B. Infant D. Teacher
33. What kind of morpheme involved
in the affixational process is common
in the
words posted, pictures, and fastest?
A. Derivational morpheme
B. Inflectional morpheme
C. Null morpheme
D. Zero morpheme
34. Which of the following BEST describes the word
formation process called
conversion?
A. 1 C.3
B2 D. 4
38. What kind of affix is present in the
word misunderstanding?
A. Infix C. Prefix
B. Circumfix D. Suffix
39. A second language learner of English says estatue
for statue and film. What morphophonemic process is
involved in the given scenario where a vowel is added
at the beginning of the word or between the sound?
is involved in the given scenario 1
d or between the sounds?
A. Assimilation
B. Elision
C. Epenthesis
D. Vowel lengthening
40. Which of the following syntactic
structures contains equivalent grammatical
units which are often joined by a
coordinating conjunction such as in lost and
found?
A. Structure of Complementation
B. Structure of Coordination
C. Structure of Modification
D. Structure of Predication
41. Which of the following exemplifies
the syntactic structure of of
modification?
A. Be careful.
B. Money talks.
C. Pins and needles
D. Sympathetic colleague
42. Which of the following BEST describes the
structure of a periodic sentence?
A. Pasta — spaghetti
B. Beauty — pulchritude
C. Fly (insect) — fly (zipper)
D. Benevolent — malevolent
47. Since she wasnt able to get tickets for the first day
of the concert, she availed
herself of the ones for the second day. (ones=tickets)
What kind of linguistic
reference is exemplified in the given sentence?
A. Anaphora C. Deixis
B. Coreference D. Entailment
48. Which of the following pairs of antonyms is a gradable pair?
A. Dead — alive
B. Fast — slow
C. Happy — sad
D. Hot — cold
49. Some senior high school
students almost failed the exam in
English. What is the sense property
in the given statement?
A. Analytic C. Synthetic
B. Contradictory D. Thematic
50. The phrase Filipino literature instructor could
mean “an instructor who teaches
Philippine literature’ or ‘“‘a literature instructor
who came from the Philippines.”
This case is an example of which ambiguity?
A. Grammatical ambiguity
B. Lexical ambiguity
C. Structural ambiguity
D. Syntactic ambiguity
51. Conversational Maxims are the cornerstone of H.P
Grice’s account of linguis
pragmatics of communication. Which maxim states that
one should not
his/her contribution more informative than is required?
A. Maxim of Manner
B. Maxim of Quality
C. Maxim of Quantity
D.Maxim of Relevance
52. Which conversational maxim is violated in the
given example?
Speaker A: How do you do today?
Speaker B: Oh well, you know. Same old me.
A. Maxim of Manner
B.Maxim of Quality
C. Maxim of Quantity
D. Maxim of Relevance
53. In a basketball event, only the officiating referee
can call out infractions of and decide penalties. Anyone
else can shout a ‘foul’ but only the referee has the
official word. Which felicity condition is evident in the
given speech act?
A. Essential condition
B.Preparatory conditions
C. Propositional content condition
D.Sincerity conditionas
54. All of the following describe an indirect speech act
EXCEPT_______.
A. context clues
B. drills
C. visualization techniques
D. word association
59. What process in language learning is
evident 1n the statement below?
Archie: I called Mom and I asked her if she
eated already.
A. Habit formation
B. Hypothesis testing
C. Overgeneralization
D. Simplification
60. Who among the following teachers has a teaching practice
that is compatible with
the humanistic approach?
A. Audiolingual approach
B. Direct approach
C. Grammar — translation approach
D. Structural approach
62. Teacher Abby wants to teach her students the four
basic sentence function
through games where they are to move and do
challenges. Which approach in
language teaching will Teacher Abby most likely
apply?
A. Discourse competence
B. Grammatical competence
C. Sociolinguistic competence
D. Strategic competence
73. Who among the following language learners exemplifies
sociolinguistic
competence?
A. Audiolingual Method
B. Community Language Learning
C. Direct Method
D. Silent Way
79. Which among the four general orientations of
modern second language
approaches emphasizes on teaching grammatical and
syntactic elements
second language in isolation?
A. Affective C. Functional
B. Cognitive D. Structural
80. The reading approach is primarily executed for the
fulfillment of practice
academic objectives. Which among the following does NOT
adhere to this approach?
A. Descriptive
B. Pedagogical
C. Prescriptive
D. Transformational
82. Given below are several language teaching principles. Which
one does NOT view the language teacher as facilitator of
learning?
A. Audiolingual method
B. Direct method
C. Grammar — translation method
D. Suggestopedia
84. Total Physical Response: Comprehension precedes production;
Communicative
Language Teaching:
A. Language is arbitrary,
B. Language is universal.
C. Language is primarily vocal.
D. Language is a system of systems.
87. Behaviorist learning theory: language behavior is
conditioned by rewards;_________: all normal human
beings have an inborn biological internal
mechanism that makes language learning possible.
A. Audiolingual Method
B. Communicative Language Teaching
C. Story Grammar
D. Think — Aloud
89. Cognitive — based: Directed Reading
Thinking Activity; Humanistic Technique.
A. Classical Conditioning
B. Experiential Learning
C. Pareto Principle
D. Social Development Theory
91. Which of the following is the learning goal of humanism?
A. Applied linguistic
B. Computational linguistics
C. Neurolinguistic
D. Sociolinguistic
93. Which language theory holds that human knowledge
develops from structures
and processes which are in the mind at birth and are also
responsible for how
language is learned rather than from the environment?
A. Behaviorism
B. Empiricist theory
C. Innatist hypothesis
D. Mentalism
94.Given below are teaching implication of Piaget’s theory on
cognitive development. Which is the Exception?
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. | and II
97. All of the following are teaching implications of
Vygotsky’s theory of scaffolding Which is the EXCEPTION?
A. Give frequent feedback.
B. Demonstrate complex tasks.
C. Divide complex tasks into simpler parts.
D. Ask students to develop their own steps.
98. Which ofthe following is NOT a
constructivist teaching scheme?
A. Modelling
B. Elicitation
C. Restructuring ideas
D. Application of new ideas
99. The information processing theory of learning proposed
by Ashcraft explains how
the mind functions in the learning process. Which of the
following is/are NOT TRUE about this theory?
A. Generative Grammar
B. Prescriptive Grammar
C. Descriptive Grammar
D. Constructive Grammar
103. Which of the following group of
words is a sentence fragment?
A. Justice is served.
B. Escalate the issue.
C. She shone.
D. Her nieces and nephews.
104. Which of the following BEST
exemplifies lexical ambiguity?
A. I saw bats.
B. Insurance salesmen are frightening people.
C. I woke up and saw ghosts.
D. We should be discussing violence on TV.
105. Which of the following BEST
exemplifies lexical ambiguity?
A. There is a fisherman near the bank.
B. Your money is in the bank.
C. The spoon is on the plate.
D. We should be discussing violence on
TV.
106. Which among the given sentences is
NOT an example of hypotaxis?
A. Sherrie is annoying.
B. Lisa is going to swim.
C. Rayn is giving me a headache.
D. Max is writing letters.
110. Which of the following is NOT a
noun phrase?
A. those houses
B. are houses
C. two houses
D. old houses
111. Which of the following is NOT an
intensive verb?
A. make
B. seem
C. turn
D. become
112. Which of the following sentence uses
extensive verbs?
A. Prescriptive Grammar
B. Descriptive Grammar
C. Theoretical Grammar
D. Mental Grammar
114. Which of the following is a complex sentence?
D. The protruding tree branch was just above him so tell him
that.
116. Which is an example of a complex sentence?
D. I wish to watch John Wick 3, but my best friend, who has a big
crush on Keanu Reeves, insisted that we watch together.
117. Which among the following sentences is free from
grammatical errors?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition
122. Which BEST describes the gerund in the
sentence, “Pamela’s life-threatening
hobby is sky diving’?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition
123. Which BEST describes the gerund in the
sentence, “Many students do not like
reading”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition
124. Which BEST describes the gerund in the sentence, “Life
spent in serving in
teaching is pleasing”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition
125. Which BEST describes the gerund in the
sentence, “Every Sunday, my friends go
hiking”?
A. Appositive
B. Direct Object
C. Subject Complement
D. Object of the Preposition
126. Which word formation is used in
the underlined word, “I have been
thinking for a perfect genre for my
upcoming film”?
A. Blending C. Coinage
B. Borrowing D. Compounding
127. Which word formation is used in
the underlined word, “I have never tasted
such a good-tasting sandwich”?
A. Blending C. Coinage
B. Borrowing D. Compounding
128. Which word formation is used in
the underlined word, “Laxx started to
doubt when Nyxx asked her to come to
the motel”?
A. Blending C. Coinage
B. Borrowing D. Compounding
129. Which word formation is used in the
underlined word, “Millennial celebrities of
on
: come to the bazaar near World
TradeCenter’?
A. Blending C. Coinage
B. Borrowing D. Compounding
130. Which of the following is a complex
sentence?
A. though
B. although
C. so that
D. because
136. “Macy thought Max left her; however, Max came.”
“However” is a
A. Coordinating conjunction
B. Correlative conjunction
C. Conjunctive Adverbs
D. Subordinating Conjunction
137. Which of the following sentence is in the CORRECT use
of the preposition?
A. sentence-clause-phrase-word-morpheme
B. sentence- fragment-clause-word-morpheme
C. morpheme-word-phrase-clause-sentence
D. morpheme-word-fragment-clause-sentence
140. Which is TRUE about bottom-up
theoretical model for structures?
A. sentence-clause-phrase-word-morpheme
B. sentence- fragment-clause-word-morpheme
C. morpheme-word-phrase-clause-sentence
D. morpheme-word-fragment-clause-sentence
141. Which function of the sentence is
exemplified in this sentence, “This It’s my
porridge.”?
A. Imperative
B. Exclamation
C. Interrogative
D. Declarative
142. Which function of the sentence is
exemplified in this sentence, “I have never
thought that this feeling would come back
again?”
A. Imperative C. Interrogative
B. Exclamation D. Declarative
143. Which is an example of a sentence
structure in inverted order?
A. Simple sentence
B. Compound sentence
C. Complex sentence
D. Compound-complex sentence
145. Which of the following exemplifies the CORRECT
present-unreal conditional
statements?
A. Oxymoron C. Onomatopoeia
B. Parallelism D. Metonymy
157. Kring, Kring, Kring! Which of the following
poetic devices is shown in the given
group of words?
A. Parallelism C. Metonymy
B. Oxymoron D. Onomatopoeia
158. The Philippines is about to witness the truth.
Which of the following poetic
devices is present in the given sentence?
A. Parallelism C. Metonymy
B. Oxymoron D. Onomatopoeia
159. I saw her talking, walking, and smiling.
Which of the following poetic devices can be
concluded based on the given sentence?
A. Parallelism C. Metonymy
B. Oxymoron D. Onomatopoeia
160. The boy is there, the boy is here, the boy is
everywhere. Which of the following
poetic devices is applied in the given statement?
A. Anaphora C. Alliteration
B. Epiphora D. Assonance
161. I will fly high next week. Which of the
following poetic devices can be observed
in the given sentence?
A. Anaphora
B. Epiphora
C, Alliteratio
D. Assonance
162. We can do this, from the world, for the world, and to the
world. Which of the following poetic devices can be inferred
from the
A. Anaphora
B. Epiphora
C. Alliteration
D. Assonance given statement?
163. Peter Pete played the paper with a pepper.
Which of the following poetic devices is shown in
the given sentence?
A. Anaphora
B. Epiphora
C. Alliteration
D. Assonance
164. Problems in the society arise, such as (...) .
Which of the following poetic devices can be
inferred from the given statement?
A. Ellipsis
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
165. You are the woman of my life! Which of the
following poetic devices is used in the given
sentence?
A. Ellipsis
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
166. I think like a Master. Which of the
following poetic devices is a technique used in
the given statement?
A. Ellipsis
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Simile
167. Ms. Tayamora speaks a language that is only
used in a particular section. Which of the
following varieties of language is present in the
given statement?
A. Regional dialect
B. Sociolect
C. Ethnolect
D. Idiolect
170. Which of the following varieties of language
is performed when a person speaks a language in
an economic class, age group, and other groups?
A. Dialect C. Jargon
B. Register D. Pidgin
172. Rose speaks in a formal setting and she
observes the use of proper words like
“going to” instead of “gonna,” and “child” instead
of “kid.” Which of the
following varieties of language is performed in
this scenario?
A. Dialect C. Jargon
B. Register D. Pidgin
173. Joshua speaks a particular language that
consists of technical terms and common turns of
phrase. Which of the following varieties of
language is referred to in the
given statement?
A. Dialect.
B.Register
C. Jargon
D. Pidgin
174. Which of the following varieties of language
is present when a grammatically simplified form
of a language for communication between people
not sharing a common discourse is used?
A. Dialect C. Jargon
B. Register D. Pidgin
175. Which of the following refers to a language
formed as a result of contact Of two
languages through an earlier stage?
A. Acroleet C. Creole
B. Basilect D. Mesolect
176. Which of the following pertains to the most
prestigious dialect or Variety of a particular
language?
A. Acrolect C. Creole
B. Basilect D. Mesolect
177, Which of the following refers to the less
prestigious dialect or variety of a
particular language?
A. Acrolect C. Creole
B. Basilect D. Mesolect
178. Which of the following refers to an
intermediate dialect or variety of a particular
language?
A. Acrolect C. Creole
B. Basilect D. Mesolect
179. Justin criticizes how linguistic foundations
work to form a meaning. Which of the
following disciplines of stylistics is referred to in
the statement?
A. Literary Stylistics
B. Interpretative Stylistics
C. Evaluative Stylistics
D. Corpus Stylistics
180. A linguist checks the legitimacy and
originality of a text. Which of the following
disciplines of stylistics is referred to by the given
statement?
A. Literary Stylistics
B. Interpretative Stylistics
C. Evaluative Stylistics
D. Corpus Stylistics
181. A Literature professor uses a technique in
studying literary texts. Which of the
following disciplines of stylistics is evident in the
given sentence?
A. Literary Stylistics
B. Interpretative Stylistics
C. Evaluative Stylistics
D. Corpus Stylistics
183 — 190 Identify which literary device is
present in the statements below.
183. “Work on, my medicine, work! Thus
credulous fools are caught ”
(William Shakespeare)
A. Apostrophe C. Charactonym
B. Climax D. Personification
184. Your eve glasses made you Harry
Potter.
A. Apostrophe C. Charactonym
B. Climax D. Personification
185. Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a
plane, no, it’s Superman!
A. Apostrophe C. Charactonym
B. Climax D. Personification
186. “The clouds cry to give me a sign.”
A. Apostrophe C. Charactonym
B. Climax D. Personification
187. “You have to keep silent (instead of shut
up).”
A. Irony C. Dysphemism
B. Euphemism D. Hypophora
188. “Your breath is very bad (instead of
you have a morning breath).”
A. Irony C. Dysphemism
B. Euphemism D. Hypophora
189. “Forever is just a jiffy.”
A. frony C. Dysphemism
B. Euphemism D. Hypophora
190. “Are you feeling all right/fine now? I know
you are.”
A. Irony C. Dysphemism
B. Euphemism D. Hypophora