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true or false:
guy cook’s definition of AL is the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a central issue.

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false, Brumfit’s definition

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true or false:
brumfit’s definition of AL is the academic discipline concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision-making in the real world

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false, Guy Cook’s definition

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true or false:
the real-world problems that Brumfit is talking about include the following: war, famine, and democracy.

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false, success and failure, ability and disability, ethical, cultural, and gender issues, technology and lack of resources, the difficult and the simple, and the child and the adult.

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true or false:
the area that AL covers include fundamental issues such as the applications of methods and theories from linguistics

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false, , such as multilingualism, language acquisition, second and foreign language education, literacy, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations.

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choose from the following:
diverse issues that AL covers

a) multiligualisim b) cognition c) pragmatic relations

d) cognitive science

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D) cognitive science

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the fundamental issues that AL covers :

a) ethnography b) historical studies c) language acquisition d) sociology

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c) language acquisition

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true or false:
applied linguistics is concerned with the distant, while theoretical linguistics is concerned with the immediate

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false, the immediate and the distant, with applied linguistics concerned with the former

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true or false:
Applied linguistics is clearly multi-factorial in that in addition to linguistics, it draws on other disciplines, psychology, sociology, education, politics, and so on.

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true.

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true or false:
unlike AL, theoretical linguistics can isolate itself from the daily uses of language.

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False, Ironically, as has become clear in the last period, linguistics also needs to do the same and cannot isolate itself from the daily uses of language.

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the term…………………….expresses one type of broadening by validating often unacknowledged skilled language practices.

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‘multiple literacies’

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true or false :

During the twenties-one century, literacy broadened its scope beyond reading and writing.

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false, the twentieth century

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true or false”
present-day literacy means being schooled in the skills of reading and writing

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false, in multiple literacies.

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true or false:

the relationship between the L1 and the L2, the consensus seems to be that since literacy skills transfer from L2 to L1, L1 literacy should be taught prior to, or simultaneously with, L2 literacy.

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false, L1 to L2

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true or false:

the weak version of literacy that unless an adequate base of L1 literacy there can be no L2 literacy development.

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false, the strong version

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a grammatical description of a language such as language teaching, syllabus design, or the preparation of teaching materials……………..

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pedagogical grammar

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to extend our knowledge of language genre so as to add to the theoretical base of language variety is the role of applied linguists in………….

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the workplace

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the purpose of applied linguists in the workplace is ………………………….

a) to add to the theoretical base in the language genre

b) to prevent awkwardness and non-confrontation tendencies

c) to provide the design of language-teaching materials

d) a-c

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d

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true or false:

applied linguists who work in the workplace fielf]d often come off as patronizing and irrelevant outsiders

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true

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true or false:
applied linguistics don’t need ‘a set of conceptual and analytic tools which are sensitive to the particular work contexts in which they work’ as it comes naturally to them.

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false, they need

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the film crosstalk came out in………….to analyze and remedy cross-cultural communication in the workplace.

a) 1971 b)1979 c)1970 d)1977

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b

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the film crosstalk focused on…………….

a) middle eastern migrants
b) Lebanon migrants
c) UK-born migrants
d) Asian migrants

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d

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true or false:

Asian-English people are confused by Asian-English lack of stress patterns, while English-English people are confused by apologetic or polite and repetitive uses of English.

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false, English-English / Asian-English

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true or false:

English-English people are confused by Asian-English appearance of not listening to what is being said.

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false, العكس

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true or false:

English-English people are confused by Asian-English lack of stress patterns and by their wrong use of turn-taking

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true

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true or false:

Thinking about language and identity ought to improve our understanding of who we are in our own eyes and in other people’s, and consequently it should deepen our comprehension of social interaction.

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true

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ELF stands for…………

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English as a lingua franca

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true or false:

One of the by-products of the global spread of English in the second half of the twentieth-one century is the lingua franca phenomenon.

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false, twentieth

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NNS stands for…………….

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non-native speakers of English

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true or false:

the variety of English used widely among non-native English speakers is authentic English.

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false, it’s English as lingua franca

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true or false:
the empirical evidence exits in the Vienna–Oxford corpus of ELF is English used among NNSs (in Europe) personally rather than professionally

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False, professionally rather than personally

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LOTEs stand for…………….

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language other than English

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to determine a methodology for categorizing background and non-background speakers………………

a) applied linguistics in the workplace
b) applied linguistics as an assessment for LOTE
c) applied linguistics for NNS

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B

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……………..to further our understanding of language learning and illuminate the still uncharted space of language use.

A) LANGUAGE PLANNING
B) language testing
c) language assessment

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b

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true or false,
language skills are a kind of population resources

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true

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Whether the community has an explicit view of its language situation or not it will inevitably have a language policy that determines such matter and that process is called …………..

A) LANGUAGE PLANNING
B) language testing
c) language assessment

A

a

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…………………….means the attitudes towards languages are directed through nongovernmental institutions

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prastatal language planning

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…………………………in the sense of having official governmental bodies that take care of what to teach in schools , what language can be stated as the official language, what is the language of the majority , what can be considered as the 1st , 2nd or foreign languages

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institutional language planning

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examples of parastatal language planning …………

a)what is the language of the majority
b) publishing houses
c) what can be considered as the 1st , 2nd or foreign languages

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b

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examples of institutional language planning……………

a) the BBC
b) newspapers and publishing houses
c)what language can be stated as the official language

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c

40
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…………………to include purpose and objectives as well as content (or syllabus) and method

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curriculum

41
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…………………statement of the means by which a set of objectives is to be achieved and at the same time an operational definition of how we should understand those objectives.

a) language planning
b) pedagogical reference
c) curriculum

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c

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ESP stands for …………………

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English for Specific Purposes

43
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…………………a matter of identifying, developing, and articulating particular perceptions of teaching and learning on the one hand and seeking ways in which perceptions can be shared and sharpened through professional debate in the teaching community on the other.

a) applied linguistics in the workplace
b) applied linguistics as an assessment for LOTE
c) applied linguistics for NNS
d) applied linguistic of curriculum studies

A

d

44
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later exposure to a language can make a native speaker out of you. true or false?

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false, early exposure ( childhood )

45
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………………measure of vocabulary in the writing of second-language learners.

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lexical frequency profile

46
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language and identity are close but not always relevant to each other. true or false?

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false, Language and Identity: are ultimately inseparable

47
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language is central to individual identity. true or false?

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true

48
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the applied linguist categorized background and non-background speakers into …………. categories.

a)1
b)4
c)3

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b

49
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the development of competence in a second language
requires the systematization of language inputs or maximization of planned practice. true or false?

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false, it requires the creation of conditions in which learners engage in an effort to cope with communication’

50
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a period that takes place sometime during puberty and it affects our engagement with a new cognitive load.

a) optimum age
b) puberty age
c) critical/ sensitive age

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c

51
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native speakers are all the same in terms of grammar and accent and their control over performance skills in the language writing speaking and so on. true or false?

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false, native members differ among themselves. Not only do they have different accents, they also have different grammars ,

52
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the role of language in a social setting………………..

a) sociolinguistics
b) language situation
c) situations in language

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b

53
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the number of mother tongues in India that Annamalai
categorized was ………….

a) 400
b)200
c) 4000

A

b

54
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the 200 mother languages belonged to …………. categories.

a) 6
b) 5
c) 4

A

c

55
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how many people speak hindi as of 1981?

a) 25
b) 255 million
c) 520 million
d) 250 million

A

d

56
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Language situations do not exist in a vacuum or in a laboratory. true or false?

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true

57
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Gender in language, therefore, is more the concern of the applied linguist, while language in gender more that of the linguist. true or false?

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gender in langauge —-> linguists
langugae in gender —–> applied linguists

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High Rise Intonation appears to be preferred by the less powerful members of society. true or false?

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true

59
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High Rise Intonation acts as a conscious expression of uncertainty and lack of confidence, perhaps even of subservience and deference. true or false?

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false, unconcious

60
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men use high-rise intonation twice as much as women. true or false?

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false, the opposite

61
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Women tend to pronounce specific vowels differently to express certain images about themselves; either to reflect certainty or uncertainty about a specific topic or in a specific context.

which is often called………………..

a) different language
b) high rise intonation
c) leading change

A

c

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In societies where there is clear societal sex-role differentiation, it is more common to find sex-preferential differences.’. true or false?

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false, In societies where there is clear societal sex-role differentiation there are likely to be sex-exclusive linguistic differences

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in societies ‘where sex roles overlap, it is more common to find sex-preferential differences. true or false?

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true

64
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Many sociolinguists have reported the use by women of more standard (as opposed to vernacular) variants than men . true or false?

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true

65
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women say “ i’m talkin’ “
while men say “ i’m talking”. true or false?

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false, the opposite

66
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Sex (or gender) does NOT operate as a major trigger of social dialect choice. true or false?

A

false, it does

67
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In all languages and Societies, Men are combative where women are more supportive.
true or false?

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true

68
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girls do better than boys in all verbal areas of the school because they are smarter, duh! . true or false?

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false, The explanation typically offered is that girls are more verbal than boys, that this is hard-wired into the brain.

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changing the language will not necessarily change the power imbalance. true or false?

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false, it will

70
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Marital status for men is marked linguistically. true or false?

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false

71
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, words of masculine gender that are commonly used to refer to people, both male and female. true or false?

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true

72
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languages typically contain far more terms to describe men than women. true or false?

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false, languages typically contain far more terms to describe women than men, usually derogatorily, and that even when they are not at first derogatory they tend over time to acquire negative connotations (e.g. harlot, tart).

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ELTS stands for …………..

A

English Language Testing Service

74
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includes foreign language learning and teaching, lexicography, style, forensic speech analysis and the theory of reading………………….

A

applied linguistics

75
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[T]he study of the uses that man makes of the language endowment and of the problems that he encounters in doing so…………………….

A

applied linguistics

76
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the application of linguistic knowledge to real-world problems … whenever knowledge about language is used to solve a basic language-related problem………………………………

A

applied linguistics

77
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[T]he majority of work in applied linguistics has been directly concerned with lexicography, style, forensic speech analysis and the theory of reading. true or false?

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false, concerned with language teaching and learning.

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applied linguistics is unconsciously eclectic. true or false?

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false, deliberately eclectic

79
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all these are factors that applied linguists consider except:
a) the psychometric or measurement
b) the anthropological
c) the psychological
d) optimum age

A

d

80
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MT stands for ……………..

A

mother tongue

81
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was the relevance of the sensitive or critical period, as well as the relevance of the age of starting a foreign language to the mode of learning are relevant to …………………..

a) the political
b) the anthropological and cultural
c)the psychological and psycho-linguistic

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c

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the issue of the language classrooms in the school under study as independent cultural communities.
are relevant to…………………..

a) the political
b) the anthropological and cultural
c)the psychological and psycho-linguistic

A

b

83
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French in Australia has in the last three years been under strain because of the French Government’s insistence on carrying out controlled nuclear explosions on one of its last colonial territories in the South Pacific.

is relevant to …………………………..

a) the political
b) the anthropological and cultural
c)the psychological and psycho-linguistic

A

a

84
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LSP stands for…………………….

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language for specific purposes

85
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The teaching of LSP discusses what the teacher needs to know. true or false?

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false,Teaching of LSP: what does the learner need to know

86
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Curriculum design: what does the teacher need to know? true or false?

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true

87
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a gap (filled or unfilled) in a learner’s knowledge of the target language.

a) error
b) mistake
c) lack of knowledge

A

a

88
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looking at the system of error without seeking causes yields a diachronic explanation of second-language learning stages. true or false?

A

false, yield a synchronic explanation

89
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language learning has a more need for testing than any other subject because it’s often harder to grasp. true or false?

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false, because the language teacher is concerned with skill as well as with knowledge. This means that there is more need for testing.

90
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language tests make language learning accountable by establishing what it means to ‘know’ the language. true or false?

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true

91
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Tests of proficiency sample the teaching programme (syllabus, course, textbook etc.). true or false?

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false, Tests of proficiency sample the language that is being learned

92
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Tests of achievement sample the teaching program (syllabus, course, textbook, etc.) that has already been agreed, a sample then of an existing sample.
true or false?

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true

93
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the linguists will analyze, survey, and interview while the applied linguist will test, observe, and above all evaluate. true or false?

A

true

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