ENG512 Midterm Quiz Combined

ENG512

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Maha Malik Bilingualism

1. In linguistics, CODE SWITCHING occurs when a speaker alternates b/w two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation.
2. Adults and school children are not bilingual (BALANCED) .
3. After the process of globalilizaton, there was a movement towards accepting .
4. Language varies from culture to culture.
5. Monolingual societies are LESS in number in the world then bilingual societies.
6. The notion of situational switching assumes a direct relationship between language and the social situation.
7. A bilingual may be balanced where there is equal proficiency in both languages but this is a rare phenomenon.
8. Study of language attitudes can b based on analyses of written document or interview data.
9. Every utterance carries a SOCIAL MEANING
10. Many second and foreign language programs pay lip service using only the TARGET language instruction. The appropriate term for the given statement.
11. which language is used in inner speech. (the language of thought)
12. pragmatic mixing (It is the drawing of attention.)
13. There is need to.....the concept of bilingual (globalize, operationalization, clarity, revise)
14. The new code for communicatio......(pidginization)
15. Traditional L2 foreign language progress often aim to use ......in instruction. (native and foreign, native , foreign, two languages)
16. New language laws, colonization, globalization, war or invasion are the ....factors resulting in language (political, social)
17. Which of the following factors impact the linguistic, socio-cult, and neurophysiologic development of individual (age, showbiz)
18. Bilinguals can extend the connotations of one language to express a meaning in another (flexibility, creativity, rigidity, flexibility and creativity)
19. Inner speech, comprehension and production refer to ..... (media; situation; role; domain)
20. Study of language attitudes can b based on analyses of (written document) or interview data.
21. ML- Matrix Language
22. EL- Embedded Language.
23. Bilingualism means to have the ability to communicate in two languages. (correct)
24. Functions of a language are universal but the linguistic forms vary across languages and cultures. (correct)
25. Bilinguality is the psychological state of an individual who has access to more than one linguistic code as a means of social communication. (correct)
26. Who defined bilingualism as the “native‒like control of two languages”? (Bloomfield)
27. At the formal level of language processing, all the surface forms used in the language are represented. (Correct)
28. Language functions do not play any role in the way particular forms have evolved over time. (Incorrect)
29. Language behavior is the product of culture. (correct)
30. Introducing an individual to the language used in literacy will induce changes in his or her language behavior. (Correct)
31. Language change is variation over time in language features. (correct)
32. Technology has changed the way we read, write, and communicate with each other. (Correct)
33. A pidgin is not the native language of any speech community. (Correct)
34. Which of the following is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages? (Creole)
35. Language Is not static; it changes as we do. (correct)
36. Modeling of language behavior has been developed more at societal level than at individual level. (Incorrect)
37. A language changes because the needs of its speakers change. (correct)
38. All living languages are continually undergoing change. (correct)
39. Creoles are learned as second languages in order to facilitate communication, while pidgins are spoken as first languages. (Incorrect)