Applied Linguistics/SLA
How many English speakers are there in the world?
Around 1.5 billion
A language is a dialect with an...
army
the study of the ways in which context contributes to meaning
Pragmatics
the study of sentence structure
Syntax
the study of word formation
Morphology
Applied Linguistics is...
…the study of language related issues applied in everyday life.
What is discourse analysis?
…is the study of the relationship between language and the contexts in which it is used
Semantics
the study of meaning in language
What is one of the main issues in teaching pronunciation?
Inadequate teacher preparation
the study of how sounds are organized in languages
Phonology
Name two of the words in the 'PLACE' of language learning acronym
–People,Language,Attention,CognitionEmotion
What are two reasons for speaking?
Transactional/Interactional
What is Grice's Cooperative Principle?
Speakers try to be informative, truthful, relevant, and clear as possible. Listeners interpret what they say on the assumption that they are trying to live up to these ideals…
True or False: Suprasegmentals are more important than segmentals in SLA.
True!
What is Michael Halliday known for?
Functional grammar
What is the 'Wug Test'?
Jean Berko Gleason’s test to determine if grammar was learned or developed naturally
What percentage of English teachers are Lingua France speakers?
80%
All I know is, smoking is harmful to your health; They told me that they are married; I am not sure if all of these are clear to you, but this is what I know; By the way, you like this car?
What is the difference between intelligibility and comprehensibility?
The extent to which a listener actually understands an utterance; A listener’s perception of how difficult it is to understand an utterance
There are three factors that determine parameters of context: Field, Tenor, Mode. Explain two.
Field- what is to be talked or written about, Tenor-Relationship between speaker and hearer, and Mode- Type of text
What is the difference between Skinner's and Chomsky's theories on language acquisition?
Chomsky - Innatist, universal grammer; Skinner - Audiolingualism rooted in Behaviourism
What are two qualities that differentiate written and spoken grammar?
Grammatical Density and Lexical Density
Name three kinds of speech acts.
Expressive; Directive; Referential; Metalinguistic; Poetic; Phatic
What is orthographic input?
the way the language is written
What are the three factors it takes to really know a word?
Form/structure, meaning/semantics, use/pragmatics