ENG504 Quiz 3 MCQs

1. . The concept of “Zone of proximal development” links processes of ---------.

o instruction o naturalistic development o organized learning

2. . A language socialization perspective predicts that there will be -------------- strategic relationship between language development and culturally situation of use”.

o constructed o cultural

o structured

o instructed

3. . The communities of ---------- are an aggregate of people who are different from the traditional community.

o practice

o justice o apprentice

4. . Early studies of private speech worked with data elicited from ----------- learners in semi-controlled settings.

o younger

o older

o younger and older o middle aged

5. . According to the activity theory, actions are always goal-directed.

o True o False

6. . The private speech in classic Piagetian theory is seen as an evidence of children’s -------.

o egocentrism

7. . Valuable concept like ‘community of practice’ were introduced in field of -------.
8. . Researchers in ---------- believe that language and culture are not separable.

o actualization

o socialization

o categorization o authorization

9. . The aspect of ---------- speech has been regularly noted in naturalistic studies of child SLA.

o private

o public o group o subjective

10. . According to socio-cultural theory, meanings and ------------are socio-culturally organized; linguistic knowledge is embedded in sociocultural knowledge.

o acquisition o definition

o functions

o abbreviation

11. . The longitudinal study of ---------- explored changes in social identity over times to achieve the right to speak in second language setting.

o Lantolf o Chomsky

o Norton

12. . Understanding of social organization of everyday life is acquired through ------------.

o media o government o people

13. . Activity is defined in terms of sociocultural settings in which --------occur/s.

o collaborative interaction o inter-subjectivity o assisted performance

14. . The social structure of communities and the ----------- relations define the learning possibilities available to members.

o power

o individual o legal o social

15. . Socio-cultural theory rejects --------------separation between social and psychological aspects of cognition and development.

o conventional

o emotional o fictional o notional

16. . Social-cultural research approaches are affected by difficulties in developing casual explanations and generalization through ----------- research.

o Naturalistic

o Quantitative o Qualitative o Descriptive

17. . The researchers argued that the reduced need for other regulation constituted evidence for micro-genetic ----------- within the learner’s ZPD.

o management

o development

o movement o disillusionment

18. . Socio-cultural perspective sees early language learning as a process of meaning- making in ---------------activity with other members of a given culture.

o connective

o collaborative

o communicative o effective

19. . The perspective of -----------provides evidence about role of language in problem solving, self-regulation and appropriation.

o Ohta

o Lantolf o Chomsky