VU Midterm Past Papers
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Q1. Universal Grammar helps to explore the interplay between
Q2. If learning strategies are a skill, then they can be taught and become proceduralized more
Q3. Universal Grammar is interested in the mechanisms that learners use.
Q4. Small group of words that form meaningful unit in a clause is called a
Q5. Cross cultural study of child language development the idea that children will only learn to talk in an environment which they can make some sense of.
Q6. Processing approaches agree with UG claims of language knowledge as .
Q7. Process-ability Theory is outlined by ; it aims to clarify how learners acquire computational mechanisms.
Q8. According to McLaughlin's Model of Information Processing, is a symbol-processing system.
Q9. child language is rule-governed and .
Q10. Children learn a language beyond the input they are exposed to.
Q11. At the stage, learners’ action would become increasingly automatic to the point that the declarative knowledge may even be lost.
Q12. B has a relationship between elements.
Q13. In the stage, a method for performing the skill is worked out.
Q14. Noticing is the necessary and condition for the conversion of input into intake.
Q15. Interactions are not a simple source of target language input, feeding into the learner's presumed internal acquisition device.
Q16. According to the Interactionist research, native and non-native speaker interlocutors will work actively to achieve a understanding.
Q17. Pienemann believes that language learning is a/an acquisition of computational mechanisms.
Q18. When we examine the role of input and interaction in acquisition, we come to know that adults commonly use ‘special’ speech styles when talking with young children.
Q19. According to Long, Environmental input is mediated by attention.
Q20. Grammar is very useful for analysis/es.
Q21. theorists do not say much about language itself.
Q22. Mark the following statement as True or False. Children might not be able to process environment/language input that is at the margins e.g., on a television or isolated words/items.
Q23. The more input is queried, recycled and paraphrased, the greater is its potential usefulness as input because it should become increasingly well-targeted to particular needs.
Q24. Connectionists believe that our mind is to look for associations between elements and create neural links between them.
Q25. According to Lenneberg, the behaviour of a child emerges before it is
Q26. Functionalist research with orientation is interested in relationship between the development of child's formal language system and aspects of their social world.
Q27. According to Soviet developmental psychologist Vygotsky, humans use tools to mediate and regulate their relationships with others.
Q28. foremost figure advocating sociocultural theory of SLL is____
Q29. ose who adopt approach, see their field as the whole process of language learning.
Q30. Towell and reject the idea that Anderson's model can account for all aspects of second language learning.
Q31. The ‘metalinguistic function’ of Learner Output proposed by Swain (1995) is also known as .
Q32. 'noticing/ triggering function' of Learner Output proposed by Swain (1995) is also known as .
Q33. Merrill Swain's (1985, 1995) argued that students often succeed in comprehending texts, while only partly processing them.
Q34. Language is a complex skill in terms of how information is stored and learnt.
Q35. Universal Grammar wants to establish what is in the learner's mind.
Q36. Work on interaction approach has been carried out within a/n educational setting.
Q37. Language and cognition seem to be largely apart but they do .
Q38. According to Schmidt, ‘Noticing’ is a process of bringing into focal attention.
Q39. B consists of a set of .
Q40. According to the socio-cultural perspectives on SLL, learning takes place the interactions taking place in a social context.
Q41. primarily investigate the development of processing in SL learners.
Q42. Connectionists rely on controlled laboratory research involving experiments with language or small fragments of real languages.
Q43. Merrill Swain argued that second language output really forces learners to undertake complete processing.
Q44. Long proposed his hypothesis as an extension of Krashen's original Input hypothesis.
Q45. Input processing theory is primarily focused on the shortcuts and restricted processing strategies which learners seem to use.
Q46. Emergentist approaches the separation between transition and property theories.
Q47. h evidence is present in child-directed speech
Q48. is seen as an alternative to symbolic accounts of language acquisition.
Q49. Grammar ignores the variable/s.
Q50. The approaches pay attention respectively to the relations between grammatical development and prototype events and between grammar and the social world.
Q51. Learning is an active and dynamic process in which individuals make use of a variety of and strategic modes of processing.
Q52. e learning strategies may be conscious in the stages of learning and later are performed without the person's awareness.
Q53. Inductive learning refers to learning by from examples.
Q54. In the cultures where CDS of Western type is rare or absent, children's early utterances frequently include .
Q55. Some child language specialists criticized parameter-setting models of acquisition as overly deterministic and ignored evidence of probabilistic learning from ‘noisy’ input.
Q56. ere is consensus that much grammar learning takes place without awareness.
Q57. accuracy of recast reproduction depends on:
Q58. Damage to the left hemisphere of the brain may result in language proficiency.
Q59. B is a
Q60. ‘Input’ of a language is as the ‘intake’ of a language.
Q61. When learners engage with their internal interlocutor in negotiations around meaning, input’s nature might be changed.
Q62. According to Schmidt, ‘Noticing’ may be voluntary or involuntary.
Q63. Second Language Acquisition, CDS stands for
Q64. In the orientation central issue is to investigate the extent to which particular linguistic devices are employed to organize stretches of discourse intrasententially.
Q65. Processing theory was given by
Q66. Processing Theorists believe that language knowledge might be in some way.
Q67. Grammar is exclusively concerned with:
Q68. Foreigner Talk is a variety used to address foreigners.
Q69. Those who adopt approach, see their field as the whole process of language learning.
Q70. The 'noticing/triggering function' of Learner Output proposed by Swain (1995) is also known as .
Q71. Hypothesis which took inspiration from Krashen’s proposals
Q72. Who were connectionists?
Q73. Error Analysis is the systematic ____________ of the errors of second language learners.
Q74. Learning is something which is ______
Q75. By using limited syntactical structures, the learners can learn to produce __________ number of expressions.
Q76. Chomsky wrote the review of _______ book on behaviourism.
Q77. Anxiety ______ the willingness to communicate in a Second Language.
Q78. The first-language utterances of a baby are a complex mixture of _______ and prefabrication.
Q79. The concept of Universal Grammar was introduced by
Q80. Research has revealed that a child who is learning his/her first language will keep on making the same ________ again and again.
Q81. In second language learning, Interlanguage cannot be compared with the _________ language/s.
Q82. Extensive and systematic use of chunks to fulfill ____________ needs is evident in second language.
Q83. Psychological perspective says that comprehensible ______ should be at the right level of difficulty.
Q84. ______ introduced the term ‘Interlanguage’ for the learners of second language.
Q85. The developmental processes of language education are handled in the _______ theory.
Q86. ______ is rule-governed and ________.
Q87. There will be variation in the _____________ at which children are learning their first language.
Q88. A theory may be:
Q89. ______ the willingness to communicate in a Second Language.
Q90. Which of the following correction by teacher is a form of negative evidence?
Q91. The limited vocabulary allowed the learners to use a language more for producing infinite number of expressions
Q92. Second language learning comprises of ______ road maps regardless of a child's first language knowledge
Q93. Transition theory is concerned with ______ processes of language acquisition.
Q94. ______ attitudes are about:
Q95. A good theory evolves through ______ enquiry
Q96. Research studies reveal that learners’ errors do not necessarily originate from
Q97. A good theory is produced _____
Q98. With the passage of time it was realized that in second language learning ______ analysis was not a good tool
Q99. Language is simply one manifestation of the more general skill of ______ representation.
Q100. The researchers realized that the errors made by the learners were not necessarily originate from the
Q101. What is your opinion about the following statement? ‘Systematicity is also linked to originality or creativity’.
Q102. ______ use of language begins at the
Q103. ______ is based on the belief that language is a finite system of structures.
Q104. Socio-cultural perspective views the learner as _________ and members of social groups and networks.
Q105. A learner is the one who is learning a/an ______ language
Q106. Second language learner is the one who is learning a/an ____ language.
Q107. Provision of negative evidence is ____ for second language development.
Q108. The approach argues that it is perceptual saliency of linguistic information that drives the learning process forward, rather than an innate language-specific module.
Q109. The learning strategies may be conscious in the stages of learning and later are performed without the person's awareness.
Q110. The perspective of ________ provides evidence about role of language in problem solving, self-regulation and appropriation.
Q111. The process that shows that new concepts are also acquired through social or interactional means is labelled
Q112. Communicative language teaching (CLT) emerged when teachers were skeptical about the role of ______ in foreign language instruction.
Q113. Mark the following as True or False: The language students need to understand the beliefs and values of the target culture.
Q114. In Pakistan, the connection between native and target cultures is mostly missing in language classrooms.
Q115. Although there are individual differences, research shows that SL learners frequently develop native-like skills within two years.
Q116. It is important to introduce the second language culture in the classrooms ______.
Q117. The teaching-learning repertoire of ______ puts emphasis on perception & consideration of the whole context prior to understanding.
Q118. Specifically in culture, the words and statements of authority (hence of teachers) are not doubted or criticized.
Q119. Mark the following as True or False: Culture must be fully incorporated as a vital component of language learning.
Q120. Students’ passiveness is interpreted as a sign of respect within Japanese frame and as a sign of indifference within ______ frame.
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