ENG513 Midterm Past Papers Edited

1. In Pakistan, which of the following prevents students from being expressive in higher education.

Large-size · Unmotivated faculty ✅ · Fixed Syllabus Forty-minutes duration

2. Which of the following theorist believe that "sentence are not learned by imitation and repition but are generated from the learner's underlying competence.

Bf Skinner · Noam Chomsky✅ · C.J Dodsen · Ferdinand De Sassure

3. Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and

Action✅ · Reading · Writing · Listening

4. Which of the following is an approach to teaching that makes maximum use of cooperative activities involving pairs and small groups of learners in the classroom.

The Natural Method Cooperative · Language Learning ✅ · Multiple Intelligence Natural programming · 5. which is most important name in discourse analysis · Noam Chomsky · b.F Skinner · Halliday Hassan · Jean Piaget · 6. who was/were theorists of structural-situational-model

Chomsky,skinner,

Pavlov · skinner pavlov · Hornby, Palmer, and West

Q7. Which of the following uses language not in isolation but in contextualization?

Discourse · Syntax · System · Ideology · 8. which is not important for community language learning · Textbook · Group work

9. What is another name of Natural approach? (Direct method)

10. Weakness of GTM lies in: the lack of using language for communicative activities.

11. who develop bilingual method (C. J. Dodson's) · 12. Silent way is (Inductive) · 13. Social Sciences = SS or SSi

14. The role of teacher in Total Physical Response. (Direct)

15. SFL stands for: Systematic Functional Linguistics

16. How many words are in Collbus English computer that covers 70% of around all English. (700)

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Q. Human language well crafted and well organized comments (Topic #02)

We all know that human language is a well-organized and well-crafted instrument. That is to say, all the basic components of a language work in tandem in a coherent and systematic manner. They are certainly not a random collection of disparate units. From one perspective, a study of language is basically a study of its systems and subsystems. By treating language as a system, we are merely acknowledging that each unit of language, from a single sound to a complex word to a large text—spoken or written—has a character of its own, and each is, in some principled way, delimited by and dependent upon its co-occurring units. As we learn from any introductory textbook in linguistics, the core of language as a system consists of the phonological system that deals with the patterns of sound, the semantic system that deals with the meaning of words, and the syntactic system that deals with the rules of grammar.

Q. "Study of language is a study of its systems and subsystems. Elaborate. 5 (Topic #02)

Language as a system enables the language user to combine phonemes to form words, words to form phrases, phrases to form sentences, and sentences to form spoken or written texts—each unit following its own rules as well as the rules for combination. Crucial to understanding language, then, is the idea of systematicity. Language as a system, however, is much more complex than the description. A true understanding of the complexity of language requires a robust method of analysis.

Using this “prewired” system, children are able to distill and develop the complex grammatical system out of the speech of their parents and caretakers. The system that the child is born with is common to the grammars of all human languages, and hence Chomsky calls it “Universal Grammar.”

Q. Define any two meta-functions of language purposed by Halliday (Topic #3)

1. The ideational function represents the individual’s meaning potential and relates to the expression and experience of the concepts, processes, and objects governing the physical and natural phenomena of the world around.
2. The interpersonal function deals with the individual’s personal relationships with people.
3. The textual function refers to the linguistic realizations of the ideational and interpersonal functions enabling the individual to construct coherent texts, spoken or written.

Q. Halliday prefer culture learning to mind learning define (Topic #3)

For Halliday, language communication is the product or the result of the process of interplay between the ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions of language. Through this interplay, the meaning potential of language is realized. Learning a language then entails learning to mean. As the child interacts with language and language users, he or she begins to understand the meaning potential within the language, and develops a capacity to use it. It is only through meaningful interactive activities in communicative contexts that a learner broadens and deepens the capacity for language use. And, language use is always embedded in a sociocultural milieu. That is why Halliday (1973) preferred to define meaning potential not in terms of the mind but in terms of the culture.”

Q. Hymes (1972) identified these factors, and has used an acronym SPEAKING to describe them. (Topic #3)

Setting refers to the place and time in which the communicative event takes place. Participants refer to speakers and hearers and their role/relationships. Ends refer to the stated or unstated objectives the participants wish to accomplish. Act sequence refers to the form, content, and sequence of utterances. Key refers to the manner and tone (serious, sarcastic, etc.) of the utterances.

Q. Three components of Austin's speech act theory (Topic #3)

1. In performing a locutionary act, one often performs such an act as ―asking or answering a question, giving some information or an assurance or a warning, announcing a verdict or an intention, pronouncing sentence, making an appointment or an appeal or a criticism, making identification or giving a description, and the numerous like.
2. The perlocutionary act is the effect or the consequence of an utterance in a given situation.
3. For it to have what Austin calls illocutionary force, a speech act has to meet certain socially agreed upon demands or conventions. For instance, a statement like I now pronounce you man and wife has its intended illocutionary force only if it is uttered in a proper context (e.g., a church) and by a proper person (e.g., a priest). The same statement uttered by a clerk in a department store will not render two customers a married couple!