This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Applied > Applied Linguistics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Applied Linguistics Quiz 1 (20 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) Inter-speech-speaking avariation. B) In-speaker variation. C) Variation of the speakers. D) Intraspeaker variation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inter-speech-speaking avariation. 5. Is it your use of the language? A) Dialect. B) Sociolect. C) Idiolect. D) Chronolect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) Monodisciplinary. B) Limited. C) Interdisciplinary. D) Evolutionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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. Next →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesApplied Linguistics Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books