Module 3 Lang. Sys.

Question 1

What are the four broad language systems?

Answer 1

• Lexis (vocabulary)
• grammar
• phonology
• function

Question 2

What one the 4 broad language skills?

Answer 2

Speaking,
listening,
reading
writing

Question 3

L.anguage systems are _____ __ ___ ______

L.anguage skills are _____ __ ___ ___ ___

Answer 3

• In the head knowledge
• what we do with language

Question 4

Define grammar

Answer 4

The system or structure between words and patterns of words that help us communicate our ideas.

Question 5

Grammar includes _____and______

Answer 5

Tense, syntax (word order)

Question 6

Define phonology

Answer 6

The sound system of language, which riders to how we form different sounds that make up the pronunciation of the English language

Question 7

A Mexican student that has difficulty distinguishing between the b in berry and the V in very is a______ issue.

Answer 7

Phonological

Question 8

Japanese students that speak with an unfamiliar rhythm is a____ issue

Answer 8

Phonological

Question 9

Define “functionalism” as it is used in module 3.

Question 10

What are the four macroskills in E S L classroom?

Answer 10

Listening, speaking, reading, writing,

Question 11

What are theproductive skills?

Answer 11

Reading, writing

Question 12

What are the receptive skills?

Answer 12

Listening, reading

Question 13

English is a member of the _____. _____ family of languages.

Answer 13

Indo-European

Question 14

Name the broad families ol the Indo-European languages.

Answer 14

Latin- Spanish, French, Italian
Germanic- German, Swedish, Icelandic, English, Dutch
Indo-iranian- Farsi, Hindi, Sanskrit
Slavic - Russian, polish, Serbian
Baltic- Latvian, Lithuanian
Celtic - welsh, Breton, Gaelic
Greek

Question 15

When and when did Germanic languages come from?

Answer 15

These came from the region of the Elbe river,3000 years ago.

Question 16

Whatmodern day language most closely resembles old English?

Answer 16

Frisian, spoken by 400,000 people in western area of the Netherlands:

Question 17

When did Old English significantly. change.

Answer 17

With the invasion of the Duke of Normandy. This ushered in Middle English. The aristocracy spoke French while peasants spoke Old English.

Question 18

Which part of French is gentleman? Which part is English?

Answer 18

French-gentle, English man.

Question 19

What language is Chaucers Canterbury tales written in?

Answer 19

Middle English

Question 20

When did mitche English “take hold” what event facilitated its rise?

Answer 20

Labor and merchant classes, mass deaths, black plaque, intermarriage between Normans and Saxons.

Question 21

How many words did Shakespeare contribute to the English language?

Answer 21

3000 mostly Latin based words

Question 22

What time period revert encompass Early Modern English?

Answer 22

1500 - 1800 events include Renaissance, William Shakespeare, KGB,. Printing press

Question 23

Early Modern English is chartered by_____ of pronunciation and spelling due to the printing press

Answer 23

Standardization

Question 24

What two events characterize late modern English? What time period does it encompass?

Answer 24

Rise of technology
Growth of the British empire ascendency of America.

Question 25

List

Question 26

List the historic factors that contributed to the chaos in English spelling

Answer 26

The great vowel shift
carelessness,
Norman spellings for Anglo-Saxon words,
spelling and pronunciation migration.
Caxton standardization
the Latin language.

Question 27

What is the great vowel shift and when did it begin?

Answer 27

The great vowel shift began around the 1400s with the pronunciation of bowel sounds moving to the front of the mouth. For example, sheep had been pronounced like shape. And meat pronounced like mate. The letter E at the end of words became silent, and the guttural German GH became our current knight in the initial K, and a cayenne combination became silent as well.

Question 28

Whose carelessness led to the standardization of odd spellings

Answer 28

1 Monks who copied texts, over and over, and eventually those became just standardize spellings

Question 29

Give an example of a spelling and pronunciation migration

Answer 29

The spelling of the word, bury BURY comes from west England, but it is pronounced like it was pronounced in London BERRY
So, using the spellings from one location in the pronunciation from another caused inconsistencies that we see today

Question 30

Who is William Caxton?

Answer 30

‘William Caxton is credited with bringing over the first printing press. He was very successful with book sales, and his books were widely read text and began the process of standardizing the spelling words, but since the words were still changing by the time they were printed mini were already updated. One result of this is that the spellings did not match the pronunciation just 100 years later by Shakespeare’s time.

Question 31

What are two examples of words that changed their spelling because of the influence of Latin on the English language

Answer 31

‘DETTE became debt and PERFET became perfect