ENG505 Final Term Quiz Merged Set 2

ENG505

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Maha Malik Language Learning Theories

1. Cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) is a term proposed by Jim Cummins.

(True)

2. BICS is not about the language skills that students need to get through the day in face-to- face situations. (False)
3. According to Baker (2006), ‘BICS is said to occur when there are contextual supports and props for ___________________ delivery. (language)
4. Actions with eyes and hands, instant feedback, cues, and clues support _______________ language. (verbal)
5. According to Cummins and Swain, people who are learning second language follows a framework of language structures and functions driven from a person’s knowledge of one language to help him or her learn the second or additional language known as CUP. (True)
6. SLA gives ‘focus on form’ which enables learner to face the challenge regarding form- focused activities in communicative contexts. (True)
7. The ______________ theory of language learning emphasizing accuracy and form and not allowing errors. (behaviourist)
8. Language teachers are required to inculcate _______________ in their teaching practices to keep pace with the latest methodologies. (research)
9. Knowledge is constructed in the context of the environment in which it is encountered through the social and _____________ process. (collaborative)
10. Pica (2005) mentions that ‘as teachers and researchers, we cannot work in isolation to each other if we are to help our students meet their needs and accomplish their goals. (True)
11. English language is a global language and more than _______________ billion people in total (native and non- native combined) speak English. (1.5)
12. Corder emphasized that language input needs to be differentiated for _____________ .

(intake)

13. Allport cognitive changes and reporting of experience or metalinguistic description of rules are the factors that are responsible for creating awareness. (False)
14. _____________ (2002, p. 10) defines applied linguistics as a ‘practice-driven discipline that addresses language-based problems in real-world contexts.’ (Grabe)
15. Grant (2010) explains that research in applied linguistics is a process of arriving at _________________ to questions situated in current understanding, employing a methodologically rigorous way. (answers)
16. To overcome the ambiguities between conscious and unconscious learning, __________________ explained that unconscious learning deals with unawareness of having learned something. (Schmidt)
17. Schmidt proposed the concept of __________________. (‘Noticing’)
18. ‘Noticing is the necessary and sufficient condition for converting input into __________________’ (Schmidt, 1990, p. 130). (intake)
19. McLaughlin, (1987, pp. 134-135) introduced three information processes: automatic processing, controlled processing, and __________________. (restructuring)
20. McLaughlin uses the twin concepts of __________________ and Restructuring to describe the cognitive processes involved in SLA. (Automaticity)
21. Towell and ___________ were the first ones to propose the concepts of ‘Declarative Knowledge’ and ‘Procedural Knowledge.’ (Hawkins)
22. Bilingual language development can be universally compared for different languages using the language processing hierarchy described in the Processibility Theory. (True)
23. ___________ was proposed by Manfred Pienemann, and it refers to the grammatical development of learners’ interlanguage. (‘Processability Theory’)
24. Long’s (1981) Interaction Hypothesis refers to the participation in conversation with native speaker. (True)
25. ‘Multiplicity of knowledge sources,’ was the term used by Towell and Hawkins which according to them is the result of learner’s exposure to SLA after ___________ years of age. (7)
26. Memory is the process by which we encode, store, and --------------------------------- ________________ information. (retrieve)
27. Working memory is the -______________ - term memory. (short)
28. It has also been noted that the generativist and cognitivist theories omit the role of memory.

(False)

29. Language learning perspectives vary as per the uniqueness of their domains and research covering. (True)
30. Language learning perspectives __________ as per the uniqueness of their domains and research covering (vary)
31. Theories application in classroom aims to address the issues of learners’ needs. (True)
32. Teaching methodologies are evolved over the period of time, and these are practiced as per specific ________________. (requirements)
33. Methods based on the interactionist theory give learners the opportunity for _____________ where they receive meaningful input from teachers and students.

(conversation)

34. Learning is known as an act of acquiring or modifying new knowledge. (True)
35. Learning is relatively permanent but subject to ______________. (forgetting)
36. Motivation has been defined as ‘a psychological ________________ that refers to the desire and incentive that an individual has to engage in a specific activity’ (Hall, 2011).

(construct)

37. ‘Integrative Motivation’ and ‘Instrumental Motivation’ affect _______________ learning process. (language)
38. The age factor is a matter of great interest to SLA researchers. (True)
39. Singleton (2004) who did not claim that Dutch learners, who started learning English in the classroom after the age of twelve, were able to gain native-like accent. (False)
40. The study of SLA covers broadly from pure linguistic units of a language to cognitive and social/interactionist models. (True)