Applied Linguistics

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Exploring Applied Linguistics

Welcome to the Applied Linguistics Quiz! Test your knowledge on the intricate relationship between language and communication. This quiz is designed for anyone interested in linguistics, whether you're a student, teacher, or simply a language enthusiast.

In this quiz, you will:

  • Explore key concepts of communicative competence
  • Understand the nuances of language and identity
  • Discover the significance of English as a lingua franca
24 Questions6 MinutesCreated by ReadingMoon247
1- Many British English speakers regarded American English as ............. deviation.
Incorrect
Impure
2- ........... Languages are regarded as carrying the spirit of a particular nation.
Some
All
3- The relationship of language or behavior to context is related to .........
Attestedness
Feasibility
Appropriateness
Possibility
4- Communicative competence is offered as a deliberate contrast to Chomsky's ........
Pragmatic competence
Linguistic competence
Corpus linguistics
Dialectal competence
5- The phrase "chips and fish" is possible, but it is not ........
Feasible
Appropriate
Attested
6- "when complaining to a police you can not address him as darling" this is an example of .....
Appropriateness
Feasibility
7- Language create individual's identities and allows them to communicate
True
False
8- Chomsky's suggested four types of knowledge in 1960s.
True
False
9- ............ Means knowledge of whether a language conforms to the rules of its grammar.
Feasibility
Possibility
Attestedness
Appropriateness
10- ............ Is the actual occurrence of a language.
Feasibility
Possibility
Appropriateness
Attestedness
11- According to ................ A person who has linguistic competence does not necessarily mean that he/she would be able to communicate using that knowledge.
Noam Chomsky
Dell Hymes
12- Maintaining the norms of one society is inappropriate in the other.
True
False
13- The notion of feasibility may seem as ....
An academic notion
a game
15- ............ Is expanding a sentence infinitely.
Feasibility
Possibility
16- ............... A variety or varieties of English used as a means of communication between non-native speakers.
ELF "English as a Lingua Franca"
ELT "English Language Teaching"
17- One of the aspect of proficiency is about proficiency in ........
Speech
Writing
18- The native speaker knowledge of a language is ...........
Explicit
Implicit
19- .......... Means using the rules correctly, but can not necessarily explain them.
Explicit
Implicit
20- What matters in using ELF is its conformity to one of the existing standards.
True
False
21- What matters in using ELF is its clarity and comprehensibility.
True
False
22- The Indian scholar Braj Kashru described that English exists in 3 concentric ...........
Components
Circles
Parameters
23- Libya is considered one of the countries in the ........... circle.
Inner
Outer
Expanding
24- The ............... Approach aimed to develop learners capacity to use the language effectively.
Linguistic
Communicative
25- Did you enjoy taking the quiz ?
Yes
Yes :p
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