ENG512 Midterm Past Papers Spring 2025

ENG512

Mid-Term

ABSTRACT

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Maha Malik

Spring 2025

1. How many languages are in Africa? 11
2. First language? Language from birth
3. Bilingualism is not a static and unitary phenomenon.
4. Absence of the second language (conceptual) Exogenous bilinguality
5. 2nd point of Three stage model words are separate but Grammar mix
6. Language for feelings thought, praying internal function
7. Domains of language behavior may differ from setting to setting.
8. The differences between dialect and languages are made on the basis of size
9. Monolingual communication is Communicative

10)

Dimensions of Bilingualism are interlinked to each other.

11)

Bilingualism does not have a single definition.

12)

Which of the following is not the characteristics of Research (Biased)

13)

In Norway people show Solidarity

14)

Which is not the form of Language mixing . (phonetic)

15)

Folk culture are highly valued: (Norway)

16)

Degree of maintenance or shift may be quite different in each of several distinguishable

domains of language behavior. (Domain variance)

17)

For speakers of a minority language in an ethnic community (Economic)

18)

The use of certain languages may be maintained by the pressure of political circumstances

(political)

19)

We may admit that the concept of reference enables us to recognize some invariables

of habitual language choice in stable multilingual settings it does so only at a considerable risk

(Group membership)

20)

The interconnections between the two languages comprise association (Translation

system)

21)

Bilingual education is from traditional language education programs that teach a

second or a foreign language. (different)

22)

‘Words from the two languages did not belong to two different speech systems but to one

.’ unitary language system

23)

Language shift is resisted more in intimate situations.

24)

Degree of maintenance or shift may be quite different in conjunction with more formal,

less formal and intimate communication (Fishman, 1965a).

25)

In language learning habit formation is a process in Behaviourism

26)

As we translange, we Support system. maximize

27)

Students work side by side in different languages, through computer-assisted instruction

28)

IN Co-languaging, where the content is presented to different language groups through

facilitative PowerPoint

29)

Which of the following is not a part of curriculum arrangement developed by Cen

Williams. Listening

30)

European commission presented Erasmus in 1987

31)

Equity of time mean equal distribution of time

32)

which of the following is not in adults bilingual development? simple communication

33)

when monoglossic ideologies persist, monolingualism and monolingual schools are the

norm

34)

Early scholars of bilingualism, only considered Control of two languages as a sign of

bilingualism. native-like

35)

CALP abbreviation Answer: Cognitive academic language proficiency

36)

Every language community must become aware of it's position in a dynamic world system

of language due to Globalization

37)

in which country ethnic language are considered as home languages? Singapore

38)

which of the following languages were taught in 4000 to 5000 ages? GreekLatin

39)

What is first language? (after birth)

40)

Majority of Language? (Multilingual)

41)

Simultaneous bilingualism means: Two languages at birth

42)

Criticism upon bilingualism in US is may be because of swelling: Immigrants

43)

Studies on the language development of bilingual children are based on of

children’s play. Video-recording

44)

Which domain is subdivided into language instruction, subject of instruction, and language

of recess and entertainment. The school

45)

Degree of maintenance or shift is quite different in conjunction with more formal and

intimate communication. Situation variance.

46)

Two languages, spoken by a section of a population, but used in a complementary way,

one language referred for certain function is known as ? Diglossic.

47)

Code switching follows a discrete of its own. Grammar

48)

Pidginization is an example of ? Change

49)

The unitary language system interrupts in an individual at the stage. Early

50)

Bilingualism is a concept, which involves the questions of degree, function,

alternation and interference. Relative.

51)

Certain styles within every language are considered to be of greater intimacy,

informality. Indicators

52)

Formal education is mostly criticized on in language Formal

53)

A social network may be seen as a boundless web of ties which reaches out through a whole

society, linking people to one another.

54)

Bilingual education is different from traditional language education programs that teach a

second or a foreign language.

55)

Social and psychological realities are simultaneous.

56)

balanced bilingualism means equal proficiency in both languages.