Quiz 2 for Mid,

ENG-504

1. _________________ SLL theorists disagree with Anderson’s implied position that SL grammar
is initially learnt through conscious study and application of explicit rules.

A) Non-contemporary

B) Contemporary

C) Ancient

D) New

2. According to Anderson’s model of Active Control of Thought, there are____ kinds of memory.

A) Two

B) Three

C) Four

D) Five

3. Some functional studies adopted a ‘patch’ approach, studying _____ of forms or development
of SL within ‘time’ or ‘space’ domain
A) Evolution

B) Evocation

C) Revolution

D) Solution

4. Connectionists rely on controlled laboratory research involving experiments with ____

A) Superficial

B) Beneficial

C) Official

D) Artificial

5. Processing theorists concentrate on study of processing ______ operating in SLA.

A) Constraints

B) Unrestraint

C) Restraints

D) All of the given above

6. The skill becomes more and more rapid and automatic in ____ stage.

A) Associative

B) Cognitive

C) Autonomous

D) All of the given above

7. Learning strategies facilitate learning whereas communication strategies help to _______ a

B) Outcome

C) Unwelcome

D) Overcome

8. Pienenmann believes that language learning is a/an ______ acquisition of computational

A) Prompt

B) Gradual

C) Active

D) Collective

9. _____________ principles are based on the claim that the claim that certain linguistics forms
are more “accessible” or “salient” to the children than others.

A) Chomsky

B) Slobin

C) Krashen

D) Piaget

10. Connectionists believe that our mind is _________ to look for associations between elements
and create neural links between them.

A) Pre-exposed

B) Pre-disposed

C) Pre-supposed

D) Pre-opposed

11. In the _____ stage, a method for performing the skill is worked out.
A) Autonomous

B) Associative

C) Cognitive

D) All of the given above

12. Some cognitivists specially focus the processing _______ and how they develop in SLL.

A) Mechanism

B) Mannerism

C) Minimalism

D) Activism

13. _________is seen as an alternative to symbolic accounts of language acquisition.

A) Connectionism

B) Computationalism

C) Cognitivism

D) Behaviorism

14. The _____ approach argues that it is perceptual saliency of linguistic information that drives
the learning process forward, rather than an innate language-specific mode.

A) Perceptual salience

B) Teachability

C) Processability

D) All of the given above

15. The _____ goal of any second language acquisition model is better understanding of the
overall SLA process.
A) Approximate

B) Estimate

C) Ultimate

D) Sublimate

16. Slobin (1985) suggested that one of the opening wedges for _______ is linguistic encoding of a
scene in which an agent brings about change of state in an object.

A) Grammar

B) Morphology

C) Phonology

D) Stylistic

17. McLaughlin’s model of information processing describes that the capacity of mind at any given
moment is ________

A) Expanded

B) Vague

C) Limited

D) Unlimited

18. According to McLaughlin’s model of Information Processing _________ is a symbol-processing

A) Eye

B) Mind

C) Soul

D) Body
19. In the _________ orientation central issue to investigate the extent to which particular
linguistic devices are employed to organize stretches of discourse intrasententially.

A) Cognitive

B) Textual

C) Social

D) Multifunctional

20. ______________ the SL theorists disagree with Anderson’s implied position that SL grammar is
initially learnt through conscious study and application of explicit rules.

A) Non-contemporary

B) Contemporary

C) Ancient

D) New

21. If learning strategies is skill, then they can be taught and become proceduralized more
_______

A) Lazily

B) Frankly

C) Quickly

D) Slowly

22. At the __________ stage, learners’ action would become increasingly automatic to the point
that the declarative knowledge may even be lost.

A) Autonomous

B) Associative

C) Cognitive

D) All of the given above

A) Connectionists

B) Cognitivists

C) Minimalists

D) Interactionists

24. ________ claims that learners are sensitives to regularities in the language input and extract
probabilistic patterns on the basis of these regularities.

A) Computationalism

B) Cognitivism

C) Connectionism

D) Behaviorism

25. _______- theorists don’t say much about language itself.

A) Connectionists

B) Minimalists

C) Interactionists

D) Processing

26. Learning strategies must not be ______ with communication strategies, they don’t overlap but
there is difference in focus.

A) Focused

B) Confused

C) Diffused
D) Organized

27. Process-ability theory is outlined by _______ it aims to clarify how learners acquire
computational mechanism.

A) Hawkins

B) Pienemann

C) Rocker

D) Chomsky

28. Which of the following linguistic developed teachability hypothesis in which he considered the
pedagogical implications of the learnability or processability model?

A) Rocker

B) Chomsky

C) Krashen

D) Pienemann

29. Connectionists don’t separate the development of ____________ from the development of
linguistic system.

A) Management

B) Assessment

C) Processing

D) Accomplishment

30. Functionalist research with _______orientation is interested in relationship between the

A) Cognitive

B) Textual
C) Social

D) Multifunctional

31. Learning is an active and dynamic process in which individuals make use of ________ and
strategic modes of processing.

A) Information

B) Formulae

C) Dis-information

D) Guesses

32. The _________ tradition claims that language development is driven by pragmatic
communicative needs

A) Functional

B) Cognitivist

C) Connectionist

D) Minimalist

33. Connectionists rely on controlled laboratory research involving experiments with _________
language or small fragments of real languages.

A) Superficial

B) Beneficial

C) Official

D) Artificial

34. Language is a complex ________-skill in terms of how information is stored and learnt

A) Analytical

B) Cognitive
 C) Behavioral

D) Technical

35. ______ links the brain to a computer that would consist of neural networks: complex clusters
of links between information nodes

A) Perceptual saliency

B) Teaching hypothesis

C) Connectionism

D) Processability

36. There is consensus that much grammar learning takes place without______

A) unconscious

B) semi-consciousness

C) conscious

D) super-conscious

37. Fossilization is most evident in spontaneous production in which the learners engages in
manufacturing his own meaning and linguistic expression.

A) True

B) False

38. Overall, _______ models are often criticized for their clinical and their fragmentary view of
language, ignoring social and linguistic phenomena.

A) Connectionist

B) cognitivist

C) interactionist
 D) minimalist

39. The _______ approaches pay attention respectively to the relations between grammatical
development and prototype and events and between grammar and the social world.

A) Minimalist

B) connectionist

C) cognitivist

D) functional

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