ENG506 Midterm Quiz Combined

ENG506

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Maha Malik World Englishes

1. Speaker's education is the main factor that determines the status of a language as a global
2. Communication in the past was through translators and interpreters. (True)
3. English is a gender neutral language. (True)
4. The process through which people, companies, and governments of different nations interact and collaborate is termed as globalisation. (True)
5. Select the factor which is important in making a language a global language. (Economic power)
6. Which of the following English speaking countries is economically supreme? (USA)
7. _______________ is crucial in making a language a global language. (Economic power)
8. When a language loses its all speakers, the situation is termed as -----------------. (language death)
9. ______________ are the factors that are involved in linguistic complacency. (All of the given options; Lack of money; Lack of opportunity; Lack of interest)
10. What is the disadvantage of having a single global language? (Risks the status of other languages)
11. One of the appealing properties of language is its _________ character. (cosmopolitan)
12. There are _____reasons behind the lack of motivation for learning other languages. (many)
13. People’s desire to have shared customs, beliefs and behaviors is termed as ---------------- identity. (cultural)
14. The term ------------------- means that people are fully satisfied with one language as the only tool for communication in all fields of life. (linguistic complacency)
15. Global independance is influential in adopting English as a global language. (True)
16. Emerging localized or indigenized varieties of English are termed as ---------------------. (World Englishes)
17. In ____________ century a large number of immigrants came from Midlands and northern England. (17)
18. ---------------- is a term for emerging localized or indigenized varieties of English. (World Englishes)
19. James Cook discovered and charted New Zealand and Australia in _____________. (1770)
20. Who colonized New Zealand? (British)
21. English was brought to Britain by Jutes, Angles and Saxons. (True)
22. The Portuguese colonized New Zealand. (False)
23. In the year 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act for the _____ of slave trade. (abolition)
24. Blacks viewed ___________ language as a tool for achieving an international voice. (English)
25. Black people recognized Afrikaans as language of oppression and _____ as language of liberation. (English)
26. The Dutch colonizers call themselves Afrikaners. (True)
27. British colonial empire in Southeast Asia was established by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. (True)
28. In which year did the British Parliament pass an act for the abolition of slave trade? (1807)
29. Children born to first generation of slaves started using pidgin as their mother tongue. (True)
30. One of the influences of English language is that it is considered as a language of progress. (True)
31. Industrial Revolution took place in England in the 17th century. (False)
32. In the League of Nations, English was the co-official language with French. (True)
33. “We were taught—and believed—that the best ideas were English ideas, the best government was English government, and the best men were Englishmen”. The given statement is an example of _____________. (Triumphalist attitude)
34. The creole Krio may have originated among the returning slaves from Jamaica and Britain. (True)
35. Pidginization is a contact between unintelligible African and Asian languages with a dominant American language. (False)
36. Speakers of different languages interact with one another which results in transfer of linguistic features. (True)
37. In the process of Pidginization, a dominant language has a simplified grammar. (True)
38. The creole _____ may have originated among the returning slaves from Jamaica and Britain. (Krio)
39. Acrolect, Basilect and Mesolect are the three parts of the creole continuum. (True)
40. ______________ is a fully developed language. (Creole)
41. A pidgin is a fully-developed language. (False)
42. Mc Whorter presented the Afrogenesis Hypothesis in 1995. (True)
43. The use of the nautical jargon theory is "master's try to imitate their servants’ incorrect speech patterns." (False)
44. Theories about the origin of pidgins and creoles can be divided into two groups. (False)
45. Grammar remains intact in the process of relexification. (True)
46. Pacific pidgins have only five vowel sounds. (True)
47. The source for lexis of all pidgins and creoles is the superstrate, also known as the dominant language. (True)
48. In Pidgin English, the vowel e is missing. (True)
49. Caribbean pidgins have 12 vowel sounds. (True)
50. The source for lexis of all pidgins and creoles is the superstrate, also known as the _______. (dominant language)
51. A monolingual tenet is a factor responsible for liberating the periphery communities. (False)
52. According to Phillipson a factor responsible for marginalizing the periphery communities is what Phillipson calls the “monolingual tenet. (True)
53. The politics of identity is the discrimination of people on the basis of accents, vocabulary and sentence structure. (True)
54. In which context are native speakers considered superior to non-native speakers? (ELT)