Applied Linguistics MCQs Final Term

Curriculum
In order to make a decision about syllabus designing, ____________________ should be

considered.
needs of the students
recommendations of administration
expectations of parents
needs of the students, recommendations of administration and expectations of parents
English medium schools develop ____________________ mind set.

religious
liberal
patriotic
pessimist
In syllabus designing, ____________________ is the broader term.

curriculum
syllabus
course
objective
____________________ is seen as being concerned essentially with the selection and grading
of content.
Syllabus design
Methodology
Objective
Teaching Method
____________________ of experts, students and institutions is important before designing a

syllabus.
Survey
Interview
Test
Exams
____________________ is concerned with the selection of learning task and activities.

Syllabus design
Methodology
Objectives
Teaching Method
Syllabus is ____________________ of Curriculum.

product
larger part
opposite
synonyms
According to Bell, ____________________ are the consumers of other people's syllabus.

students
teachers
parents
institutions
____________________ is concerned with the planning, implementation, evaluation,

management and administration of educational programs.
Curriculum
Syllabus
Course
Objective
Types of Syllabus
____________________ syllabuses are those in which the focus is on the knowledge and skills
which the learner should gain as a result of instruction.
Process
Product
ESP
NFS
____________________ syllabuses are those in which focus on the learning experience

themselves.
Process
Product
ESP
NFS
It was ____________________ who first drew the attention to the distinction between synthetic
and analytic syllabus.
Bell
Wilkins
Chaucer
Sunderland
In ____________________ language teaching strategy parts of language are taught separately

and in the end we combine them.
synthetic
analytic
process
product
____________________ syllabuses are organised in terms of the purposes for which people
are learning language and the kinds of language performance that are necessary to meet those
purposes
Synthetic
Analytic
Process
Product
The most rigid grammatical syllabuses supposedly introduced ____________________ item(s)

at a time and required mastery of that item before moving on to the next.
one
two
three
four
During the 1970s the use of ____________________ syllabuses came under increasing
criticism.
structural
process
ESP
NFS
____________________ may be described as the communicative purposes for which we use

language.
Notion
Function
Process
Product
____________________ are the conceptual meanings expressed through language.

Notions
Functions
Processes
Products
The drawback of functional notional syllabus is that it is ____________________.

expensive
real world language
realistic learning task
teach communicative aspects with grammar
____________________ considers functional notional syllabuses as basically synthetic.

Bell
Widdowson
Sunderland
Chomsky
____________________ model is very creative.

Content based
Language based
Product
Objective
According to ____________________ curriculum is a large and complex concept.

David Nunan
Bell
Widdowson
Sunderland
____________________ refers to syllabus as a summary to the content to which the learner will
be exposed.
Yalden
David Nunan
Bell
Widdowson
Error Analysis
Child’s experience do not include ____________________.

Conscious process
Unconscious process
Essential component
Language learning process
The essential component in successful second language learning is ____________________.

native speaker language
learner’s own experience
instructional procedures
unconscious process
Interpretation of errors in second language and first language learning suggests that second
language errors are____________________.
natural
unnatural
conscious
experience of language
____________________ refers to the use of elements from one language while speaking
another.
Overgeneralization
Interference
Morphology
Performance error
Selinker calls reorganisation of linguistic materials is ____________________.

generalization
interference
overgeneralization
performance error
The use of previously available strategies in new situations is generalization by

____________________.
Selinker
Jakobovits
John
Goldsmith
During learning a second language, Learner’s produce forms like comed, goed because
of____________________.
overgeneralization
interference
performance error
language of transfer
____________________ error is related to memory limitations rather than to competence.

competence
performance
strategy
mental
The error represent the final state of the speaker’s ____________________.

competence
language learning
performance
competence, performance and language learning
The phenomenon, where two distinct varieties of a language exist side by side in a community,
each having a distinct and definite role to play is called____________________.
Register
Diglossia
Error
Mixed community
In diglossic communities, ____________________ style may have striking differences in

grammar and in word order.
High
Low
Mixed
New
The high form is generally regarded as ____________________.

Subordinate
Low
Superior
Inferior
The prevalence of artificially high style English among Indians is called

____________________ English.
High
Babu
Superior
Aristocratic
Errors attributable to the learner’s attempts to reduce the learning burden of what he has to
assimilate may be closely related
Register
Interference
Segmentation
Assimilation
____________________ are used by people whose mother tongues are different, in order to
facilitate communication between them.
Pidgin languages
Mixed languages
Haphazard languages
Mixed communities
Learners’ errors which have become a permanent rather than a transitional feature of their
speech can be minimised through ____________________.
teachers' motivation
repeated errors
reinforcement
evaluation
Child learns language by interacting with it, by actively coping and manipulating with
____________________.
environment
experience
errors
English
Individuals who learn at the age of 15 or so, characteristically may have more difficulty with new
____________________.
environment
methods
structures
vocabulary
Skills like listening, speaking, reading, writing mostly used in ____________________ syllabus.
process-oriented
product-oriented
grammatical
functional
Procedural and task based syllabuses are considered as synonyms

by____________________.
Richards, Plate, Weber
Noam Chomsky
De Saussure
Sigmund Freud
Prabhu provided ____________________ tasks which were used in his Bangalore Project.
information gap activity
reasoning gap activity
opinion gap activity
functional
The use of tasks as the point of departure in syllabus design, one of the characteristics of
____________________ syllabus.
procedural
task based
process
product
____________________ is in the favour of choosing pedagogic criteria for task selection.

Candlin
Prabhu
Joseph Stalin
Nunan
____________________ is in the favour of need analysis for the task selection.

Candlin
Prabhu
Joseph Stalin
Long
____________________ suggest that curriculum could be viewed as a collection of academic

tasks.
Doyle
Prabhu
Joseph Stalin
Long
According to____________________, the language consists of a single underlying

psychological skill.
natural approach
applied linguistics
semantics
pragmatics

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Curriculum

In order to make a decision about syllabus designing, ____________________ should be

English medium schools develop ____________________ mind set.

In syllabus designing, ____________________ is the broader term.

____________________ of experts, students and institutions is important before designing a

____________________ is concerned with the selection of learning task and activities.

Syllabus is ____________________ of Curriculum.

According to Bell, ____________________ are the consumers of other people's syllabus.

____________________ is concerned with the planning, implementation, evaluation,

____________________ syllabuses are those in which focus on the learning experience

In ____________________ language teaching strategy parts of language are taught separately

The most rigid grammatical syllabuses supposedly introduced ____________________ item(s)

____________________ may be described as the communicative purposes for which we use

____________________ are the conceptual meanings expressed through language.

The drawback of functional notional syllabus is that it is ____________________.

____________________ considers functional notional syllabuses as basically synthetic.

____________________ model is very creative.

According to ____________________ curriculum is a large and complex concept.

Child’s experience do not include ____________________.

The essential component in successful second language learning is ____________________.

Selinker calls reorganisation of linguistic materials is ____________________.

The use of previously available strategies in new situations is generalization by

____________________ error is related to memory limitations rather than to competence.

The error represent the final state of the speaker’s ____________________.

In diglossic communities, ____________________ style may have striking differences in

The high form is generally regarded as ____________________.

The prevalence of artificially high style English among Indians is called

Procedural and task based syllabuses are considered as synonyms

____________________ is in the favour of choosing pedagogic criteria for task selection.

____________________ is in the favour of need analysis for the task selection.

____________________ suggest that curriculum could be viewed as a collection of academic

According to____________________, the language consists of a single underlying

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