ESL Practice Test with correct answers

1. The following demonstrates what linguistic phenomenon? A Spanish speaker says "animales." An English speaker says "animals." A. Codeswitching B. Language borrowing C. Cognates D. Interlanguage Answer The correct answer is C. Code-switching is when a speaker uses one language and then another, "I will go a la tienda para comprar chicle.". Language borrowing is when the English language adopts words from other languages, such as "rodeo" or "taco". Cognates are words in 2 languages that are related through the same origin so they have similar sounds/spelling/meaning. Inter-language is the in-between space when a person is still learning one language and using their first language to help them understand the 2nd language. 2. A student has difficulty with activities identifying rhyming words by matching the ending sounds