ENG505 Midterm Quiz from Assessments

ENG505

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Maha Malik Language Learning Theories

1. In Krashen’s Monitor Theory, acquisition and learning develop ______________ in language learning. (competence)
2. Cognitive process concentrates on _________________ . (mental process)
3. What type of symbols are present in a language system? (Arbitrary)
4. B.F. Skinner is a ________________. (behaviourist)
5. Universal Grammar refers to the mentalist approach that supports ______________ and ___________ . (nativism and cognitivism)
6. …………… proposed a ‘three-level framework’ (1965) based on ‘Approach, Methods, and Techniques.’ (Edward Anthony)
7. ………………….of language deals with the understanding of the structurally related elements in a language. (Structural principal)
8. Silent Way emphasizes problem solving by involving the ……………..material. (target language)
9. Total Physical Response emphasizes instant understanding of the target language by responding to the ……………given in the target language. (command)
10. The term "technique" is a broader term for specific ________________ . (tasks)
11. What does LAD stand for? (Language Acquisition Device)
12. Learning belongs to behaviourist approach and deals with a mechanical process of ………..formation. (habit)
13. Chomsky refers to competence as a system of rules mastered, and the ability to produce ___________________ number of sentences. (infinite)
14. Performance is ‘the actual use of language in …………situations.’ (concrete)
15. Inductive Learning begins with …………….first and requires learners to determine rules relevant to the examples. (examples)
16. The behaviourist movement began with John Watson in ______________ . (1913)
17. Russian ______________, Ivan Pavlov, is the founder of ‘Pavlovian Conditioning’. (physiologist)
18. Temporal Congruity occurs when two …………are experienced close together in time and, as a result, an association may be formed. (stimuli)
19. Classical Conditioning supports the habit formation and opposes the idea of _______________ as responsible factors for learning. (consciousness)
20. Reinforcement or punishment determines the ______________ . (behavior)
21. He introduced the theory of Verbal Behaviour in _________________ . (1957)
22. Skinner identified following three types of responses that can follow behaviour: ___________,_________________, ___________ . (neutral, reinforcer, punisher)
23. The ‘Mediation Theory’ was introduced by ______________________ . (Charles Osgood)
24. ‘Law of Effect’ was introduced by _______________. (Edward Thorndike)
25. Law of Exercise: (a) the law of use and (b) the law of _____________. (disuse)
26. Immanuel Kant was a _________________ philosopher. (German)
27. Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, mathematician and scientist, and father of ……………..philosophy. (modern)
28. Chomsky’s (1965) idea of __________________ has been a hallmark of language learning mechanism. (innateness)
29. The Lenneberg theory is known as __________________ . (Critical Period Hypothesis)
30. Competence is a native speaker’s _________________ of his/her language, system of rules mastered, and the ability to understand and produce infinite number of sentences. (knowledge)
31. Robert Gagne (1916 – 2002), an educational psychologist, introduced _____________ levels of learning events. (events)
32. Three-Stage Information Processing Model ___________________, short-term memory, long-term memory. (sensory register)
33. Vygotsky believed that language is one of the most important psychological tools that effects children’s________________ development. (cognitive)
34. Green (2003) states that information processing approach involves three basic steps: encoding, storage, and ___________________ . (retrieval)
35. Vygotsky’s Socio Cultural Theory (1896-1934): is based on the __________________ analysis, the role of language, and the social relation. (developmental)
36. Newell and Simon (1972) proposed _________________ for problem solving. (Information Processing System)
37. Connectionist models, cover a wide range of domains, are related to language processing and cognitive ______________. (control)
38. Connectionism suggests that cognitive phenomena can be explained with respect to a set of general information-processing principles, known as Parallel Distributed Processing. (True)
39. The Associative-Cognitive CREED Theory in SLA was introduced by ___________________ . (Nick Ellis)
40. PDP models are neutrally inspired information processing models to explain the ways of information processing which actually takes place in the ____________. (brain)
41. Sir Frederick Bartlett proposed the theory of _________________________. (Reconstructive Memory and Schema)
42. Assimilation and ___________________ also contribute in the thinking processes. (accommodation)
43. John Dewey, father of experiential education (1930) has not been generally recognized as the most renowned and influential American philosopher of education. (False)
44. Vygotsky has been the key figure who supported Constructivism and introduced his famous theory of _________________ . (Zone of Proximal Development)
45. According to Jonassen and Land (2002), context, construction and collaboration are the basis of the constructivist learning. (True)
46. Jerome Bruner emphasized the concepts of involving learners in the cognitive as well as the constructive processes for meaningful learning. (True)