ENG506 Midterm Past Papers Spring 2025

ENG506

Mid-Term

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Maha Malik

Spring 2025

Q. Definitions and Key Terms

1. ESL – English as a Second Language
2. ENL – English as a Native Language
3. EFL – English as a Foreign Language

Q. Countable noun – A noun that can be counted (e.g., apple/apples).

Q. Creolization & Pidginization:

•  Pidginization: A simplified contact language between groups with no common language.
•  Creolization: When a pidgin becomes the first/native language of a community.

Q. Creole Continuum – Range from basilect (least like standard) to acrolect (most like standard) with mesolect in between.

Q. Acrolect and Basilect:

•  Acrolect: High variety, close to standard English.
•  Basilect: Low variety, farthest from standard English.

Q. Nativization (definition) – The process of adapting English to reflect local language, culture, and identity.

Q. Linguistic Complacency – 3 reasons

•  Assumption Standard English is superior
•  Refusal to learn local variants
•  Rejection of bilingualism

 Regional ·  Ethnic ·  Social · Q. Redundancy and Repetition (with 3 examples)

•  Redundancy: Repetition of same idea unnecessarily. Examples: o “Free gift” o “Advance planning” o “End result”

Q. Four Steps Pidgin → Creole

1. Stabilization
2. Expansion
3. Nativization
4. Full creolization

Q. Four Changes in Creolization

1. Expanded vocabulary
2. Tense development
3. Complex sentence structures
4. Morphological enrichment

Q. Three Points of View about Pidgin

•  Seen as broken/inferior
•  Viewed as simplified forms
•  Recognized as functional communication systems

Q. Three Features of Pidgin Lexis

•  Reduplication (e.g., toktok for chatter)
•  Simplified morphology
•  Borrowing from dominant languages

Q. Two Points of Pidgin Lexis

•  Reduplication for intensity
•  Coding of relationships using “bilong” (e.g., papa bilong me)

Q. Recreolization – Speakers reassert their creole variety to express ethnic

identity

Q. Outer Circle Countries (examples)

•  India