试卷代号：1362
国家开放大学2 01 9年秋季学期期末统一考试
应用语言学试题
2020年1月
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● You have 90 minutes to finish this exam.
● The exam consists of 4 parts:
Part I. Multiple Choice Questions (IO items, 30 points,3 points for each)
PartⅡ.True or False Questions (10 items, 30 points,3 points for each item)
PartⅢ.Matching(5 items, 10 points,2 points for each item)
PartⅣ.Short Questions(3 items, 30 points, 10 points for each item)
● This is a closed exam. You are not allowed to consult any reference books or with other examinees.
Part I. Choose the best answer to complete the following statements. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 items, 30 points, 3 points for each item)
1. Contrastive linguistics is the synchronic comparison of_________languages with a large number of linguistic structures in respect to similarities and differences.
A. five B. four
C. three D. two
2. The most widely discussed psychological topic in Second Language Acquisition is the role_________plays in L2 acquisition.
A. interaction B. memory
C. attention D. translation
3. Some corpus studies emphasize either the_________or the qualitative aspects of analysis.
A. quantitative B. number
C. cognitive D. psychological
4. The pragmatic aspects of communicative competence contain functions, interactional skills, cultural framework and_________.
A. phonology B. variations
C. orthography D. vocabulary
5. What is NOT included in the three indicators of excellence in all aspects of a language program? _________
A. consistency B. efficiency
C. relevance D. popularity
6. The idea of interlanguage assumes that an L2 learner, at any particular moment in his learning sequence, is using a language system which is _________the L1 _________the L2.
A. both···and B. neither···nor
C. either···or D. whether···or
7. Which of the followings is NOT a form in positive transfer? _________.
A. simplification B. avoidance
C. overuse D. interference
8. Language, _________, and culture are three major strands highly reflected in the linguistic relativity, and they are also reflected in Applied Linguistics.
A. music B. thought
C. writing D. painting
9. The_________is the beginning of planning a language program , rather than an activity that occurs during the process.
A. syllabus B. examination
C. orientation D. assessment
10. Which of the following features is not included in the three features that all language aptitude tests try to identify? _________
A. The ability to pay attention to, and discriminate the speech sounds of languages.
B. The ability to relate speech sounds to some form of graphemic representation.
C. The ability to memorize all the words in a foreign language quickly.
D. The ability to pay attention to the formal characteristics of a language- grammatical sensitivity.
Part II . Decide if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE according to what you have leared from the course book. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 items, 30 points, 3 points for each item)
11. Scholars holding contrastive linguistic points of view believe that foreign language learning is the same as native language acquisition.
12. Applied linguistics relates to a range of activities which involve solving some grammar-related problems or addressing some grammar-related concerns.
13. The most efficient materials are those that are based upon a scientific description of the target language to be taught.
14. The number of sound segments in different languages is the same.
15. The norm-referenced test is a test which measures a student, s performance according to a particular standard.
16. Lexical competence refers to the ability to accomplish communication purposes in a language.
17. Functional linguistics approaches have been exploring various ways that syntactic structures are used for discourse purposes.
18. Teachers need information about the administration of the program. Such as employee issues , or issues of how various personnel interact with the program.
19. The advantage of a corpus linguistic approach in studying a function of language is that many interacting characteristics can be examined simultaneously.
20. The practices of repair for Conversation Analysis are cognitive, not discursive or interactional.
Part III . Mateh the terms in Cohnm A with the right descriptions or explanations in Column B.Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Note that there are more descriptions or explanations tban necessary. (5 items, 10 points, 2 points for each item)
ColunuiA
21. Language Teaching methodology
ColumnB
A. mainly concerns the relevant factors and elements to "teachingn such as program plan, syllabus design and leaner factors, etc.
22. Discourse competence
B. is the ability to understand behavior from the standpoint of the cultural members and to behave in a way that would be understood by the members of the culture in the right way.
23. Cultural competence
C.is he tudy oncerned ith sychological spects of language studies.
24. Language mode
D. mainly concems the language teaching methods
such as grammar-translation. communicative
language approach and so on.
25. Psycholinguistics
E. refers to a collection of naturally occurring
examples of language from a few sentences to a
set of written texts.
F. refers to the ability to understand andconstruct written texts of different genres, suchas narratives, procedural texts, expositorytexts, persuasive texts, descriptions and others.
G. is the state of activation of the bilingual ' slanguages and language processing mechanismsat a given point of time.
H. is the ability to interpret the social meaningof utterance and to use language with theappropriate social meaning for thecommunication situation.
PartIV.Answer the questions below. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (3 items,30 points, 10 points for each item)
26. According to what you have learned from the course, name two categories of tests inlanguage testing community, and explain why language tests play a vital role in languageteaching?
27. According to the course book, in a foreign language writing class, if some errorsmade by the students frequently occur, what shall applied linguists do?
28. We have learned that certain positive characteristics are helpful in languagelearning. Some people think that outgoing students are more successful language learnersthan introverted students. Do you agree? Are there any other characteristics that you thinkare helpful to language learning and why?