This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Linguistics > Applied > Applied Linguistics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Applied Linguistics Quiz 1 (33 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a question that theoretical linguistics seeks to answer? A) What is morphosyntax?. B) How does language relate to other cognitive processes?. C) What is a dialect?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How does language relate to other cognitive processes?. 2. The idea that an author should explore a problem area of language use is the main idea of: A) Educational Linguistics. B) Applied Linguistics. C) Language Teaching. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Educational Linguistics. 3. What did Messick conceptualize to the valid use of tests in specific contexts? A) The importance of social prejudice. B) The importance of social mordenization. C) The importance of social consequence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The importance of social consequence. 4. Variation within the language of a single speaker is called. A) Intraspeaker variation. B) In-speaker variation. C) Variation of the speakers. D) Inter-speech-speaking avariation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inter-speech-speaking avariation. 5. Is it your use of the language? A) Dialect. B) Idiolect. C) Sociolect. D) Chronolect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiolect. 6. What are two areas of study that applied linguistics greatly focuses on? A) Language education and forensic linguistics. B) Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics. C) Morphology and Syntax. D) Pragmatics and Lexicography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language education and forensic linguistics. 7. The study of linguistic development through time is? A) Threorical Linguistics. B) Applied Linguistics. C) Diachronic Linguistics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diachronic Linguistics. 8. The meaning of a word that changes through time is? A) Semantic change. B) Grammatical change. C) Phonological change. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantic change. 9. Which metaphor of technology and language learning implies the computer is stimulating as a teacher in some way? A) Computer as teacher. B) Computer as trainer. C) Computer as tutor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Computer as tutor. 10. What word best describes the scope of applied linguistics? A) Evolutionary. B) Interdisciplinary. C) Limited. D) Monodisciplinary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interdisciplinary. 11. The source of Applied Linguistics is ..... A) Linguistics. B) Linguistics, translation, and speech therapy. C) Linguistics and other disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or education. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linguistics and other disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or education. 12. What was the early distinct types of language testing validity that was related to trait or ability being tested? A) Criterion. B) Construct. C) Content. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Construct. 13. What is essential for the study of general applied linguistics? A) Knowing Noam Chomsky's work. B) To study theoretical linguistics. C) Mostly understand sociology. D) Study what historical language is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To study theoretical linguistics. 14. What is universal linguistics? A) A format the used to write essays. B) Properties that all, or many languages have in common. C) Rules in the languages. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Properties that all, or many languages have in common. 15. What are the 5 language variations? A) Pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and native varieties. B) Pidgins, spain, creole, french, base lenguaje. C) American English, British English, Canada English, Australian English. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pidgins, spain, creole, french, base lenguaje. 16. Why the term 'Applied Linguistics' was misleading in the Journal Language Learning, in 1948? A) It excluded many activities of linguistics and other relevant disciplines. B) It focused on translation and speech therapy. C) It was not cited. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It excluded many activities of linguistics and other relevant disciplines. 17. What do linguists need to investigate to understand the rating's impact on test validity better? A) The issue of human versus AL rating. B) The issue of human versus automated rating. C) The issue of computer versus manual rating. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The issue of human versus automated rating. 18. How many versions do the IELTS test consist of? A) The one and only version:Academic tests. B) Two versions:General and Academic tests. C) Three versions:Academic, General and Expert tests. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two versions:General and Academic tests. 19. What is theoretical linguistics concerned with? A) Development of theories about general aspects of languages. B) To analyze what syntax is. C) To create new languages. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Development of theories about general aspects of languages. 20. What is the vast majority of language testing? A) International Language Testing Systems. B) Tests of English as a Foreign Language. C) Classroom based. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Classroom based. 21. Whose point of view was that "Applied Linguistics was about language teaching" ? A) Corder. B) Bloomfield. C) Spolky. D) Kaplan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corder. 22. According to the linguists, what has been a serious concern of applied linguistics? A) The racist bias of language. B) The sexist bias of language. C) The cultural bias of language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cultural bias of language. 23. . What brought a vigorous interest in the cultural component of language study from 1970s to 1990s? A) The social turn in applied linguistics. B) The political turn in applied linguistics. C) The international turn in applied linguistics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The social turn in applied linguistics. 24. What learning environments typically involve a distance learning component but also traditional face-to-face teaching? A) "Hybrid" or "Blended" teaching. B) "Hybrid" or "Integrated" teaching. C) "Integrated" or "Combined" teaching. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Hybrid" or "Blended" teaching. 25. Messick argued that validity could only be established through a systematically presented evidence from ..... A) Unique sources. B) A variety of sources. C) Some particular confidential sources from the local authorities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A variety of sources. 26. The main focus of Applied Linguistics is ..... A) Theory. B) Practice. C) The relationship between theory and practice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The relationship between theory and practice. 27. Which metaphor of technology and language learning puts the focus on individual learner capabilities and cognitive goals and needs? A) Computer as savvy-assistant. B) Computer as tool. C) Computer as technology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Computer as tool. 28. Successive bilingualism is ..... A) Dominate the mother tongue. B) You learn a language first. C) It is valued more than other. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You learn a language first. 29. Receptive Bilingualism is when ..... A) You learn at the same time. B) You learn a language first. C) Dominate the mother tongue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dominate the mother tongue. 30. What did big C culture and little c culture stand for before 1970s? A) Literature and Anthropology. B) Literature and anti-consumerism. C) Literature and archeology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literature and Anthropology. 31. Certain social groups aiming for amore prestigious form of language than they would naturally use, in formal situations. A) Dialect. B) Hypercorrection. C) Covert prestige. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypercorrection. 32. Language variation is considered important in idiom teaching because ..... A) It helps to speak. B) Contributes to cultural values. C) Helps pronunciation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contributes to cultural values. 33. When older people and younger people use language differently. What social factor is it? A) Audience. B) Identity. C) Age. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age. 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