ENG524 Final Term MCQs Handouts

to improve people’s lives and to have a deep look on social change by feeding our critiques.

3. Research that is “problem-oriented” and which offers “practical implications and applications”
4. According to Mahboob and Paltridge (2013), critical approaches are used in the study of

language policy, language teaching, learning and testing.

5. Language is invariably abstracted and recontextualized as a “text” for analysis and discussion.
6. institutionalized critique needs to invoke discourses recognized within the social practice it critiques.
7. Academics should pay close attention to the kind of training other

professionals receive.

8. Foucault (1977) claims that sense theory does not express,

translate, or serve to apply practice.

9. Some researchers tend to exclude this work from their publications such is the demand

for theoretical over the practical.

10. “Advertising is one of the most prominent, powerful, and ubiquitous contemporary uses of language.
11. critical discourse analysis seeks to reveal the hidden assumptions.
12. Investigating discourses about the past opens up a space to explore the dynamic nature of

meaning-making practices.