844 英语专业综合

7. .American Black English is _______.

A） a social varietyB） a regional variety

C） a combination of socialand regional dialect D） a temporal dialect

8 Pragmatics is a study of ________.

A） language learning B） language acquisition

C） language planning D） language in use

9. .The organized network of knowledge that helps us to understand newknowledge is called ______

A. paradigm B.aphasia C.hedge D. schema

10. Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, whichare _______or generalization.

A.elaborationB. simplification

C.external borrowingD. internal borrowing

III.True or False Questions.(10%)

Directions:decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true andF for false in your answer sheet.

( )1.A synchronic description takes a fixed instant as its point of observation.

( ) 2.Even pre-schoolchildren know virtually all the rules of language except for some subtleties.

( ) 3.Coordinationrefers to the process or result of linking linguistic units so that they have different syntacticstatus, one being dependent upon the other, and usually a constituent of theother.

( ) 4. A containmentschema involves repetitious events and event series.

( ) 5.Linguistically,names for superordinate categories are often mass nouns when basic level termsare count nouns.

( ) 6. In John loves Mary, which may berepresented as L (j, m), we have three arguments John, loves and Mary.

( ) 7. Folk etymologyrefers to a process involving a change in the sequence of sounds.

( ) 8. When we use asimple set of symbols in our transcription, it is called a Broad Transcription.

( ) 9.Quatrains are twolines of verse, usually connected by a ryhme.

( ) 10. Root is thebase form of a word that cannot be further analyzed without destroying itsmeaning.

IV.Short answer questions.(15%)

1.Tell the differences between inflectional affix andderivational affix.(8%)

2.Try to summarize the characteristics of basic-level categoryin the field of cognitive linguistics (7%)

V.Short Essay writing (25%)

1.What do you know about the features of women register? (13%)

2.Illustrate Malinowski’s theories as much as possible.(12%)

Second Language Acquisition

I.Explain the followingterms in English (10 %)

1.Language aptitude

2. Negotiation of meaning

3. Interlanguage

4. Syllabus

5. strategic competence

II.True or false statements(10%)

1. Thestrategies of planning issues, preparing lessons, regulating affective demandsand reviewing the in-text information can be broadly classified asmetacognitive strategies.

2. Thestructuralist view towards learners’ errors is to regard errors as evidence ofthe learning process.

3. Thestructural syllabus is a grammar oriented syllabus based on a selection of languageitems and structures.

4. Audio-visual teachingmethod holds that acquisition will be maximized when learners engage in tasksthat “push” them to the limits of their current competence.

5. Those who are more tolerant of ambiguity in communication tend to usemore L1 in class.

6. Deductive learning is akind of learning where learners are first given a rule and then demonstratedwith examples.

7. A learner who has astrong ethnocentrism is beneficial for his success of foreign languagelearning.

8. Clozetest, dictation and translation are all items of a discrete point test.

9. Acquisition describessecond language learning which is analogous to the way in which a childacquires his first language, that is naturally without focus on linguisticform.

10. Ladoproposes that two requirements that a test must fulfill: validity andreliability.

III.Answer the followingquestions briefly: (25%)

1. Whatis cognitive style? Explain its influence on L2 learning with examples.

2. Illustrate the contentvalidity with examples.

3. How doyou understand the Krashen’s “i+1”principle?

4. Analyze the errors inthe following sentence committed by Chinese learners of English and identifythe possible error sources:

Bill suggested me to have a talk withhis friend.

5. Whatare the major techniques involved in process writing?

IV.Answer the followingquestions in your own words: (30%)

1. What is automatization?How can a learner’s declarative knowledge be converted into his proceduralknowledge? Illustrate it with specific examples.

2. Some people state thatlearning a language is just learning a kind of culture. The attitudes oflearners to the L2 culture are crucial to their L2 learning success. Do youagree? Why?