Psycholinguistics

Children’s cortex is more plastic, thus facilitating acquisition.

The study of interlanguge includes all of the following EXCEPT…

Message abandonment, topic avoidance, phonological or grammatical avoidance are all examples of…

Describing or exemplifying the target object or action (e.g the thing you open bottles with instead of corkscrew).

Which of the following is NOT a type of repair uptake?

A teaching context whose goal is language learning will eventually replicate the circumstances of acquisition of the L1

Bloom’s taxonomy presents 6 major categories in the cognitive domain represented in a cumulative hierarchy… (select 2)

Participants can negotiate meaning & the language is supported by a wide range of meaningful paralinguistic cues.

Match to the cognitive level: What does the summer solstice represent?

DEC & PRO don’t interact & thus the former cannot be transformed into the latter.

Children perform better at the morphosyntactic level while adults perform better at the phonological level.

In FLT, sequence means…

Analyzing, differentiating, discriminating, comparing, deconstructing, attributing

Generate, design, produce, construct, create, compose, predict, devise, imagine, invent, prepare, plan, develop

Select the student profile & preferable teaching experience for the following learning style (choose 2): Communicative

DEC is a springboard towards implicit or procedural knowledge.

Is about carrying out the necessary tasks to maintain motivation.

Select the 2 options teachers have when dealing with anxious students.

In SLA, sequence means…

Sequencing affects language acquisition, and different sequencing patterns result in different levels of mastery.

Match to the level: If the longest day of the year is in June, why is the Northern Hemisphere hottest in August?

Adopts a more psychological perspective whereby psychological insights are taken as reference to understanding language

In practice, explicit & implicit learning cannot be dissociated.

Participants rely on linguistic cues to meaning & successful interpretation of the message depends on L2 knowledge.

Which of the following is NOT one of the abilities comprising linguistic aptitude?

Select the incorrect statement about interlanguage.

Adopts a more linguistic approach to understanding the human brain: how we process language

Classify the type of error: “He has 6 years old.”

Select the student profile & preferable teaching experience for the following learning style (choose 2): Analytical

These are strategies about learning (skills for planning, monitoring & evaluating the learning activity).

Creative, mental construction of ideas & concepts from multiple sources to form complex ideas into a new pattern.

Recognizing, identifying, recalling, retrieving naming, repeating, listing, locating, reciting, describing, finding

Anxiety appears to impede learner’s ability to perform successfully in a FL class.

Student recognizes the gap or agrees with teacher’s feedback.

States that errors are the result of transfer from L1.

Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 categories of motivational strategies employed by teachers?

Entails mechanical repetition, use of L1, mostly triggers individual work on the language for non-communicative purposes

L1 is invariably considered successful by learners, whereas L2 is not. This refers to…

How learners are guided to new content and new tasks on the basis of what they have completed in previous tasks.

Student neither repeats nor corrects initial error, but makes a different one.

In pairs, learners discuss what they know about population growth & the one-child policy in China.

Classify the intralingual “It’s my happy birthday.”

Refers to getting started & setting goals.

English as a 1st language (officially spoken at home and at school)

Select the corrective feedback used: S:“We is happy.” T:“We is? But it’s 2 people right? When it’s plural we say we are”

English as a second language (It is the official language of the country, even if at home other languages are spoken).

Match to the cognitive level: When is the first day of spring?

Research has demonstrated that IQ may be more strongly related to metalinguistic knowledge than to communication skills

Analyzes the distribution and sequence of activities as selected by the teacher.

Select the student profile & preferable teaching experience for the following learning style (choose 2): Concrete

The steps within a particular activity on its own is called…

Is the following an example of explicit or implicit knowledge? Sewing a button.

Product of formal instruction & it comprises a conscious process.

Recall or recognition of terms, ideas, procedures, theories, etc.

Learners work in small groups to predict the environmental impact of population growth.

Select 3 benefits of explicit learning.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage that bilingual children have over their monolingual peers?

These strategies operate directly on incoming information, manipulating it in ways that enhance learning.

Product of a subconscious process; requires meaningful interaction in the TL (natural communication)

Interpreting, inferring, predicting, summarizing, explaining, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, exemplifying

Focusing on form & correcting mistakes is effective for all of the following EXCEPT…

Language learning for personal growth & cultural enrichment through contact with speakers of the TL.

Communication proper to the activities in the classroom.

In most TEFL settings there is limited exposure to the language outside the classroom, & limited opportunities to use it

These strategies involve interacting with another person to assist learning or using control to assist a learning task.

Select the student profile & preferable teaching experience for the authority-oriented learning style (choose 2):

Classify the intralingual error: “Since” pronounced as [sains]

Student responds to teacher’s feedback but circumvents linguistic focus altogether without including further errors.

Clear-cut division between activities is referred to as…

Is the following an example of explicit or implicit knowledge?What is the structure of the present perfect in English

Classify the type of error: “Give me a coffee.”

Language learning for immediate or practical goals is…

The interface between psychology & linguistics that studies the complexities of the human brain.

Question for clarification, cooperation, & self-talk are examples of…

Separation of a complex idea into its constituent parts & an understanding of organization & relationship between them.

Classify the error: I like the cars reds.

Learning styles have both cognitive and affective dimensions & thus reflect the totality of psychological functioning.

Incidental learning is the result of explicit learning, which results in or draws on explicit knowledge (DEC)

Checking, hypothesizing, testing, judging, assessing, critiquing, debating, justifying, arguing, predicting

Bilingual children mix words from 2 languages in the same sentence. This is known as…

Communication of the everyday world outside the classroom

Any expansion of CUP that takes place in one language will have a beneficial effect on the other language (s)

Apply abstractions, general principles, or methods to specific concrete situations.

Match to the cognitive level: Why are the seasons reversed in the Southern Hemisphere?

Teacher shows a picture of a crowded Chinese scene, asking prompting questions such as “Why is it so crowded?”

Involves the use of metalanguage, analyzing language, favors formal accuracy, aims at controlled input/output…

Match to the cognitive level: What would Earth’s seasons be like if it’s orbit was perfectly circular?

Implementing, executing, transferring, changing, using, matching, exemplifying, translating, carrying out

Using an alternative term which expresses the meaning of the target lexical item as closely as possible (ship for boat)

Refers to students’ appraisal of & reaction to their performance.

SAT&ACT-R theories maintain that learning a FL is analogous to acquisition of other skills in terms of cognitive process

DEC can help noticing for intake & thus become PRO.

Learners match labels with the names of different countries to different graphs indicating population growth.

To make a judgement of ideas or methods using external evidence or self-reflected criteria substantiated by observations

English as a foreign language (English is neither widely used for communication or as a medium of instruction).

Match to the cognitive level: What would be the important variables for predicting seasons on a newly discovered planet?

Translate, interpret, extrapolate, but not see full implications/transfer to other situations (literal translation)

Select the corrective feedback used: S: My father clean the car. T: My father…? S: Cleans?

Select the 3 principles of the Task-based FonFs Approach.

L2 learners develop their basic identity through the newly learnt L2, forging a strong & intimate link with the language