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CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIN MENCIN INGLS

INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED LINGUISTIC (5-ECTS)
SEGUNDA EVALUACIN PRESENCIAL
OCTUBRE 2012 - FEBRERO 2013

Elaborada por:

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Lic. Mayra Carrin

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INSTRUCCIN:
Lea detenidamente cada uno de las siguientes preguntas y rellene completamente el crculo que
corresponda al literal de la alternativa correcta en la hoja de respuestas.
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To know the rules of a language and use them make you:

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A perfect speaker.

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A linguistists

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Nor a or b.
Universal grammar refers to:
Forms the basis of the competence in a particular language.
A connection to the particular language.

Human behavior respect to a language.

The formal systems of the language are:
Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.
Learning and teaching process.
The linguistic approaches.
It is genetically determined that people are born with the next language feature:
Without considerable pre programmed knowledge of how language works
With considerable pre programmed knowledge of how language works
With a limited knowledge of how language works
In the communicative competence is involved:
Apart of grammar, other knowledge.
The knowing of the grammar only.
The pronunciation of the words.
Dell Hymes suggested four types of knowledge, each one with particular feature.
.concerns the relation of language or behavior to context and as suche covers a
wide range phenomena.
Feasibility.
Apropriateness.
Attestedness.
Dell Hymes suggested four types of knowledge, each one with particular feature.
.is the knowledge of attestedness, something is done.
Feasibility.
Apropriateness.
Attestedness.
Hymes introduced ideas to the language teaching profession, the idea quickly became misinterpreted.
So the four parameters of Hymes model were not taken as integral parts of a complex model but rather:
As discrete areas to be developed separately.
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As disciplines to be taken account.

As advice to improve pronunciation.
At the starting, the influence of the communicative competence, the typical language learner was
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An affluent youthful visitor who wanted to fit in with the right way of doing things in Britain or USA.
An immigrant who needed to learn English as quickly as possible.
Nor a or b.
The fate of the concept of communicative competence shows:
How and when transferred to a practical domain, theories and description of a language in use.
How and when languages appeared.
How teachers must teach English.
Why does the language in use vary?
Because the context.
Because the model of applied linguistics.
Nor a or b.
For language users, the instances of language are:
Abstracted.
Never abstracted.
Nor a or b.
In linguistics, what view is language abstracted from?
From experience.
From teaching.
From learning.
When people communicate among them, what kind of factors of the communicative competence are they
involved?
The realtionship between speakers.
Systems of gramar and sounds.
Both, a and b.
What does the discourse analysis study?
The succes in learning language.
How stretches of language in context are perceived as meaningful and unified by their users.
The cognitive development of the language systems.
What are the areas of study of the discourse analysis?
Possibility, feasibility and apropriateness.
Paralanguage, pragmatics and genre studies.
Corpus linguistics, linguistics and communicative approach.
What is the Paralanguage?
It is the communicative behavior, used alongside language.
It is the discipline which studies the knowledge and procedures which enable people to understand each
others words.
It is a class of communicative events which share some set of communicative purposes
What is the Pragmatics?
It is a class of communicative events which share some set of communicative purposes
It is the discipline which studies the knowledge and procedures which enable people to understand each
others words.
It is the communicative behavior, used alongside language.
Choose the feature of the Genre Studies.
It is a class of communicative events which share some set of communicative purposes
It is the discipline which studies the knowledge and procedures which enable people to understand each
others words
a class of communicative events which share some set of communicative purposes
A complement of paralinguistic messages are:
Use of the literal meaning of the words.
Use of some facial expressions
Both, a and b.
The successful interpretation of language in context depends upon:
The degree to which the participants share conventions and procedures.
The degree to which the participants share values and beliefs.
Both, a and b.
What does it provoke barriers to communication?
Language which is no shared.
Borders of the countries.
Absence of linguists.
Why do people need to express themselves in their own language?
To teach a language.
To preserve their culture.
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To learn another language.

Why do people need to express themselves in their own language?
To learn another anguage.
To teach a language.
To preserve their culture.
What is the language in literature used for?
To create alternatives to the real world.
To teach a language.
To preserve a culture.
What happen when a literary text is translated?
The resonance and the rythmn in the text improve.
The resonance and rythmn in the text mantain its escence
The resonance and rythmn of the original text change and the meaning deffers.
Why is important the literature in the applied linguistics?
It reflects and constructs our individual and social identities.
It embodies or criticizes the values of the society.
Both, a and b.
What does the stylistics analysis investigate?
The link between the forms of languages uses and their social and psychologycal power.
The manipulation and to empower of the language.
Both, a and b.
A dark side of the persuasive language is for:
Telling the truth.
Influencing and misleading.
Nor a or b.
If we understand the linguistic techniques of persuasin, we will be able to:
Enhance our ability to make the rational informed judgements.
Enhance our skills to speak English.
Improve our linguistic skills.
What do the reports and facts showed in a newspaper reflect?
The values of the writer and the view of the world which it wishes to encourage in the reader.
The fame of the newspaper and numbers of followers that it has.
The fame of the newspaper editors.
How is the analysis of such language and its effects known?
As a lingua franca.
As persuasive language.
As critical linguistics.
The favouring of passive constructions over active ones.
Passivization.
Nominalization.
Conversationalization.
When actions and processes are referred to by nouns as though they, rather than the
people doing them.
Conversationalization
Nominalization.
Passivization.
It is the tendency for communication, however complex or significant, or unequal the
encounter, to be presented in the register of casual conversation.
Nominalization.
Passivization.
Conversationalization.
could be used as a persuading technique in literature.
Rhetorical questions.
Diminutives.
Criticism.
reflects social and individual identity of the language users.
Jargon
Slang
Language used in literature
..form a part of critical linguistics.:
Gramar rules and vocabulary
passivisation and conversationalization
Nor a or b.
Newspaper edits in its front page Genetic modification is a powerful technique rather than Researchers
who modify genes have a great deal of power . That is a strategy.
Conversationalization.
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Nominalization.
Passivization.
A positive effect od the applied linguistics, on teachers specially, has been:
New attittudes and ideas among proffessionals.
Rejecting the views of the linguistists.
Losing the cultural identity.

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