SLA Exam Questions and Answers |New Update with 100% Verified Answers
1. Which of these is NOT a fully-fledged language?
a) Tok Pisin
b) Hawai'i Creole
c) Idioma de Signos Nicaragiiense
d) None of the above d) None of the above
2. Julie (Ioup, 1994) was nativelike and fluent in her L2, Arabic, because of
a) a willingness to communicate
b) a welcoming and receptive environment
c) a rare oral gift
d) all of the above d) all of the above
3. Which is MORE dependent on the critical period?
a) open-class words like nouns and verbs
b) closed-class words like prepositions and articles
c) both are equally dependent on the critical period
d) neither is dependent on the critical period b) closed-class words like prepositions and
articles
4. Which is the LEAST affected by the critical period?
a) accent
b) grammar
c) vocabulary
d) all are equally dependent on the critical period c) vocabulary
6. Jia and Aronson (2003) found Chinese immigrant kids in NY and NJ did
, a) better at speaking than writing
b) better at writing than speaking
c) equally good at both
d) not very good at either a) better at speaking than writing
5. In Klein (1982), a 2.5-year study that followed 40 adult L2 learners in 5 European countries
who spoke
a range of L1s, it was found that the "Basic Variety" is a type of SLA that appears when people
a) learn in a classroom only
b) learn a cognate language to their L1
c) learn 100% naturalistically
d) learn a non-cognate language to their L1 c) learn 100% naturalistically
7. In Housen et al. (2011), the study that compared German kids learning English in Germany,
Belgium
and the U.K., FL learners could do as well as L2 learners growing up in the U.K. when it came to
a) vocabulary range
b) grammar accuracy
c) grammar complexity
d) fluency b) grammar accuracy
10. Which kind of SLA theory deals with the innate language learning mechanism known as
Universal
Grammar (UG)?
a) Chomskyan
b) Cognitive-interactionist
c) Sociocultural
d) Emergentism a) Chomskyan
1. Which of these is NOT a fully-fledged language?
a) Tok Pisin
b) Hawai'i Creole
c) Idioma de Signos Nicaragiiense
d) None of the above d) None of the above
2. Julie (Ioup, 1994) was nativelike and fluent in her L2, Arabic, because of
a) a willingness to communicate
b) a welcoming and receptive environment
c) a rare oral gift
d) all of the above d) all of the above
3. Which is MORE dependent on the critical period?
a) open-class words like nouns and verbs
b) closed-class words like prepositions and articles
c) both are equally dependent on the critical period
d) neither is dependent on the critical period b) closed-class words like prepositions and
articles
4. Which is the LEAST affected by the critical period?
a) accent
b) grammar
c) vocabulary
d) all are equally dependent on the critical period c) vocabulary
6. Jia and Aronson (2003) found Chinese immigrant kids in NY and NJ did
, a) better at speaking than writing
b) better at writing than speaking
c) equally good at both
d) not very good at either a) better at speaking than writing
5. In Klein (1982), a 2.5-year study that followed 40 adult L2 learners in 5 European countries
who spoke
a range of L1s, it was found that the "Basic Variety" is a type of SLA that appears when people
a) learn in a classroom only
b) learn a cognate language to their L1
c) learn 100% naturalistically
d) learn a non-cognate language to their L1 c) learn 100% naturalistically
7. In Housen et al. (2011), the study that compared German kids learning English in Germany,
Belgium
and the U.K., FL learners could do as well as L2 learners growing up in the U.K. when it came to
a) vocabulary range
b) grammar accuracy
c) grammar complexity
d) fluency b) grammar accuracy
10. Which kind of SLA theory deals with the innate language learning mechanism known as
Universal
Grammar (UG)?
a) Chomskyan
b) Cognitive-interactionist
c) Sociocultural
d) Emergentism a) Chomskyan
