ENG522 Midterm Quizzes

1. Saussure thought of language sounds as a series of linguistic signs that are purely

Desired Random Intentional Arbitrary

2. In general terms, quantitative methodology aims to uncover facts and truths in a/an way.

Practical Objective

General

3. Children still show greater comprehension than at the telegraphic stage.

Acquisition Submission Creation

4. In America, a structural approach was continued through the efforts of Franz Boas and .

Quiz 1

Noam Chomsky Guy Cook

Edward Sapir

5. The earliest known attempts to describe a language in a systematic way originated in ancient northwestern .

India Africa America England

6. A child stays at the telegraphic stage for about .

One and a half year Two years Half a year One year

7. Deep structure determines interpretation.

Phonetic Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic

8. The rules that express the relation of deep and surface structures in sentence are called grammatical .

Formation

Q9. Who among the following said, “The term applied linguistics” raises fundamental difficulties?

Brumfit and Rampton Kaplan and Grabe Rampton and Nunan Nunan and Cook

10.

Who among the following calls applied linguistics as ‘an open field of interest in language’?

Guy Cook David Nunan Ben Rampton David Block

11.

Who among the following presents the ‘Seven Ways of Looking at Language’?

Guy Cook

Ron Macaulay David Nunan

12.

Who among the following collected the very first steps of language in children in his article ‘Language Growth and Maturation’?

Cook Sweet Lenneberg Nunan

13.

Applied linguistics is a methodology in itself, because it is concerned with problems in which central role.

Research Real-world