ENG503 Midterm MCQs 2025

Q1. On average, we expect to listen _______ as much as we speak.

1. twice
2. thrice

Correct answer: twice

Q2. Which type of listening usually takes place outside the classroom?

1. Purposive
2. Communicative
3. Intensive
4. Extensive

Correct answer: Extensive

Q3. Extensive listening involves listening to _______ amounts of text.

1. neither too massive nor too small
2. massive
3. both, massive and small
4. small

Correct answer: massive

Q4. Which one of the following language skills is used the most in normal daily life?

1. Reading
2. Listening
3. Writing
4. Speaking

Correct answer: Listening

Q5. Which one of the following activities is considered the best for speech fluency as well as accuracy?

1. Audio-taped oral dialogue journals
2. Prepared talks and scripts

Correct answer: Audio-taped oral dialogue journals

Q6. Which of the following goals a learner has to meet in ‘Listening and Repeating Model’?

1. to develop critical listening, critical thinking
2. to process discrete-point information
3. to pattern-match; to listen and imitate
4. to process spoken discourse for functional purposes

Correct answer: to pattern-match; to listen and imitate

Q7. The distinction between accuracy and fluency is essentially a _______ distinction.

1. grammatical
2. methodological
3. sociological
4. psychological

Correct answer: psychological

Q8. What type of questions are aimed to be solved in Intensive Listening?

1. Difficult questions
2. Predetermined questions
3. General questions
4. Factual questions

Correct answer: Factual questions

Q9. ‘Listening to mimic a text’ is an example of _______ listening.

1. Purposive
2. Intensive
3. Extensive
4. Communicative

Correct answer: Intensive

1. % of multilingualism in world? (55,60,65,70)
2. Ensuring the test items meat specification is much more...? (problematic, valuable, reliable)
3. Which grammar indicates the sound and meanings of language? (prescriptive grammar, descriptive grammar, Universal/Mental grammar)

Q. Difficulties of learners in classroom (Topic 01)

The difficulties of learners also depend upon how much their native language is different from English. Learners of English language usually commit errors of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The difficulties of learners also depend upon how much their native language is different from English.

Q. How ELT is beneficial for promoting local culture (Topic 04)

ELT is beneficial in promoting local cultures (e.g., Chinese movement); therefore, it provides an opportunity to learn and absorb another culture because language and culture are interlinked. It also provides opportunities to travel abroad and access the prestigious local and international jobs.

Q. Roman Jackobson essential function of language (Topic 08)

Q1. The Referential Function: The Referential function is all about describing. Can you describe what you see, what is happening around you, and how you feel about it?

2. The Emotive Function: The Emotive function is about expressing something. We do not only state facts but also add a little emotion to our conversation.
3. The Conative Function: The Conative function is concerned with commanding. We all like to order people around but do we feel confident enough in the target language to try out the imperative? “Go on, open it!”, “Don’t touch - it’s dangerous!”
4. The Poetic Function: It is about choosing your words wisely. How careful you are when you speak? Do you attempt to be eloquent? It helps us develop an appreciation for the literary and spoken word tradition of the target culture and is essential in higher levels of communication.
5. Phatic Function: Popularly known as ‘small talk’ or engaging for the sake of conversation, phatic function is the non-referential use of language to share feelings or establish a mood of sociability rather than to communicate information or ideas

Q. Define productivity and duality features of human language OR Q. Features of Human Language (Topic 09)

1. Reflexivity: Other creatures do not reflect on the way they create their communicative messages or review how they work. Humans are clearly able to reflect on language and its uses (e.g., I wish he wouldn’t use so many technical terms).
2. Displacement: Animal communication cannot effectively be used to relate events that are far removed in time and place. Humans can refer to past and future time. This property is called displacement. It allows language users to talk about things and events not present in the immediate environment.
3. Arbitrariness: There is no “natural” connection between a linguistic form and its meaning or the object it describes in the world. The connection is quite arbitrary. Some words with sounds seem to “echo” the sounds of objects or activities and hence have a less arbitrary connection.
4. Productivity: Humans continually create new expressions and novel utterances by manipulating their linguistic resources to describe new objects and situations. This property is called productivity. The potential number of utterances in any human language is infinite. The communication systems of other creatures are very limited as it does not seem possible for them to produce new signals to communicate novel experiences or events.
5. Cultural transmission: The process whereby a language is passed on from one generation to the next is called cultural transmission. We acquire language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental genes.
6. Duality: Human language is organized at two levels or layers simultaneously. At one level, we have distinct sounds (n, b and i). At another level, we have different combinations of these sounds and their distinct meanings (bin, nib).

Q. Reason to maintain Linguistics diversity (Topic 12)

 Languages express identity.  Languages are repositories of history.  Language contributes to the sum of human knowledge.  Languages are interesting in themselves.  Ecological diversity.

Q. rift of language in Pakistan. (Topic 17)

English was never seriously questioned. South Asian governments generally teach most children through the vernacular languages while reserving English for the elite. English-using elite are