ENG506 Final Term Quiz from Assessments

ENG506

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Maha Malik World Englishes

1. The transformation which takes place in non-English cultures and languages as a result of exposure to the English language is called Englishization. (True)
2. SLA is the field of study that investigates the processes by which foreign and second languages are learned. (True)
3. There are millions of _________ users who learn and use second languages in their own countries, who may never come across a native speaker face to face. (L2)
4. Native-like competence as L2 learning goal is the orthodox view of __________. (SLA)
5. The product of a multilingual contact situation in which those who wish to communicate must improvise a simple language system is called a ____________. (pidgin)
6. The purposes and functions of the additional language are determined by the role and status the additional language enjoys in a community. (False)
7. ______________ reflects the learner's evolving system of rules. (Interlanguage)
8. Interlanguage as a concept has relevance to stable bilingual and multilingual contexts across the world. (False)
9. The gradual process of learning L2 from L1 towards L2 is called intra language. (False)
10. Fossilization is inapt to the context of world Englishes. (True)
11. The concept of interlanguage is based on three hypotheses. (False)
12. The use of two or more languages by a single individual or a community of speakers is known

as: (Multilingualism)

13. Code mixing may be intentional or __________. (unintentional)
14. A morpheme (or word element) that can stand alone as a word. Also called an unbound morpheme or a free-standing morpheme. (True)
15. ________________ occurs at a point where the surface structures or grammars of two languages coincide because they have the same word order or constituents. Codification.

(Code switching)

16. Conventional notions of language policy and planning lack any ________ perspective.

(Critical)

17. __________ language policy was not unidirectional. (Imperial)
18. Anti-colonial movement was well organized, popular and __________ . (Aggressive)
19. Language policy and economic concerns determined colonial policy throughout ________ .

(Africa)

20. The place of a language policy is determined by __________. (Population and prestige)
21. One of the reasons for the dominance of English in the language policy is English is a /an ___________ language. (Global)
22. The inability to use English as an official language is one of the many reasons English causing ___________ . (Exclusion)
23. Ensure that it contributes to the overall cultural, human, and socio- ___________ development of a country. (Economic)
24. There is a ____________attached to American English despite British English being the “official” target norm in education. (covert prestige)
25. Immigrants in the seventeenth century from northern and western England, Scotland and Ireland. (True)
26. The emergence of a new variety or dialect of a language from the mixing, leveling, and simplifying of different dialects of mutually intelligible languages is known as __________________ .(Koinaeizatation)
27. Ethnic varieties come as a result of immigration. (True)
28. Large scale colonization started in the ___________ half of the twentieth century. (Second)
29. Regional dialect differences are based on different pronunciation patterns and ________ choices. (Morphological)
30. Australian settlement and development is from 1788 to ________. (1820)
31. The colony of New Zealand was established in ________. (1840)
32. Younger speakers demonstrate more distinguishing features than ___________. (Older

speakers)

33. The term ‘wog’ has now been adopted by these groups as a mark of _______ for them and their common experiences of migration. (Solidarity)
34. Malay kingdoms maintained ___________ families. (Royal)
35. Language policy after independence stated that Primary education would be in the ______ language. (Ethnic)
36. Use of Mandarin, Malay, and _______ limited to the elementary level. (Tamil)
37. Malay made __________ to qualify for civil servants and university students. (Mandatory)
38. The term African English refers to English as used only by Black Africans in ex- _________ colonies and in Liberia. (British)
39. In African English, the resumptive _____________ occurs in non-subject positions.

(Pronouns)

40. Between 1500 and 1860, at least __________ million Africans were forcibly taken to the Americas. (12)
41. __________ shows the rich derivational morphology that is characteristic of African languages. (coinage)
42. ________ million people toiling at English lessons in China. (300)
43. Access to English was limited to a university-educated ________ in East Asia. (Elite)
44. Growth of productive forces, strength of the ________ state and rise in living standards together are the three favorable. (Socialist)
45. Elements of English have been made an _________ part of the Japanese language. (Integral)
46. 1715: Establishing of missionary schools began with a school in _________. (Chennai)
47. Lord Macaulay’s minutes declared _______ better worth knowing than Sanskrit or Arabic.

(English)

48. _________ is the language of religion for Hinduism and Arabic for Islam. (Sanskrit)
49. A government Act in _________ made English co-equal with Hindi for all official purposes of the union, parliament and communication between the union and the states. (1967)