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An #English quiz for #AQALanguageALevel
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Who didn't make a diagram to show a model of World Englishes?
McArthur
Strevens
Crystal
Modiano
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Jean Paul Nerriere's 'Globish'
A world English with a vocabulary of around 1500 words
A Pidgin
Native speakers should not use it
It does not have to be correct
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Most consonant sounds, and long and short vowel sounds, are essential for intelligibility
Jennifer Jenkins
David Graddol
Lisa Lim
Mark Pagel
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Take a rain check
grapheme
joke
simile
idiom
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The reality of English is that its future is on the tongues of non-native speakers.
Suzette Haden Elgin
Lisa Lim
Jean Paul Nerriere
Braj Kachru
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Considers all sources of change (ecology of change)
Mark Pagel
Lisa Lim
Jurgen Beneke
David Deterding
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Mark Pagel's 'punctuational' change
The burst of rapid change in a new language's vocabulary
The way that grammatical structures develop
Developing punctuation use
An evolution of semantics
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What is a basilect?
An established world English
A developing language
The most informal version of a Creole
The most formal, official variety of a Creole
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Graddol: How many did he predict would speak English by 2010?
1 billion
4 billion
3 billion
2 billion
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Nerriere: Which language evolved in the way that English is evolving?
Arabic
French
Latin
Chinese
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Fragmentation is inevitable
Braj Kachru
Barbara Seidlhofer
Lisa Lim
Mark Pagel
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It's great that English doesn't have a central standards body!
Jean Paul Nerriere
Paul Bruthiaux
Mark Pagel
Braj Kachru
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David Graddol
Technology is positive for English
Simple is better
English in its new global form is the world's lingua franca
Fragmentation is inevitable
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What is a lingua franca?
A bridging language in interactions
A creole
Sign language
English spoken by other language speakers
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A word to describe the dispersal of people and their languages
L1
Migration
Diaspora
International English
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Intonation that is spread across syllables evenly
emphasis
Stress-timed
East Asian languages
Syllable-based
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The unstressed vowel at the end of words like 'butter'
schwa
sibilance
retroflex
stress
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she has two shoe
using present tense progressive form
not marking agreement in third-person verbs
limited marking of past tense
not marking plural endings
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Endonormative stage of a developing language
When a language is very colloquial
When the language is established with internal rules
When there are no grammatical rules yet
when the language is developing and looks for external rules
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What does L1 mean?
The most basic level of a language
The most widely used language in the world
The predominant language in a culture
The first language learned
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Suzette Haden Elgin's Panglish
Wildly varying Englishes all around the globe
A single English with dialects and a consensus about grammar
A Proto language
The path that English is on
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What Creole combines English, Chinese, Tamil and Malay?
Bislamah
Hawaian
Singlish
Gullah
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Pronouncing 't' and 'd' with the tip of the tongue curled back and touching the mouth's roof
fronting
rhotic
retroflex
post-vocalic
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Foundation, exonormative stabilization, nativization, endonormative stab..ion, differentiation
Scheider's dynamic model
Strevens and the family tree structure
David Deterding
Jean Paul Nerriere
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A trade language, usually not the language of either of the speakers.
A pidgin
A mesolect
A Creole
An acrolect
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Barbara Seidlhofer
Dropped consonants
Pluralisation of mass nouns and countable nouns
Past tense forms
Use of schwa
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The idea of English as a worldwide language
Lingua Franca
Global English
Colonisation
Singlish
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Graddol: Which 4 languages will be spoken equally in the world by native speakers by 2020?
English, Mandarin, Swahili, Punjabi
English, Bengalese, Russian, Japanese
English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic
English, French, Chinese, German
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Jurgen Beneke: what percentage of interactions in English are between non-native speakers?
60%
80%
50%
70%
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is running, am walking, are smacking
present progressive forms
Past progressive forms
pluperfect forms
Present tense forms
