According to Halliday, when a student says, That was a good book, he or she is using ________.
A) instrumental language
B) regulatory language
C) personal language
D) heuristic language
Ques. 2Which of the following describes phonology?
A) the arrangement of words in acceptable sequences
B) the study of the smallest units of meaning
C) the rules we learn to navigate conversations
D) the study of speech sounds and how they are combined
Ques. 3One characteristic of Latino English is ________.
A) the use of the verb be to indicate continuing action
B) many English sounds such /z/, /l/, /th/, and /j/ do not exist
C) /b/ and /v/ are distinguishable
D) the use of the past tense marker when other words indicate past
Ques. 4Which feature of language describes what takes place when a student uses the phrase, that is a pretty girl rather than that girl pretty?
A) Language has dual qualities.
B) Language is generative.
C) Language is rule-governed.
D) Language is arbitrary.
Ques. 5Listening and reading are referred to as ________.
A) expressive modes
B) phonological awareness
C) receptive modes
D) semantics
Ques. 6When a student begins using the word because in sentences, he or she is demonstrating knowledge of ________.
A) conjoining
B) promise/tell sentences
C) embedding
D) passive sentences
Ques. 7Because many students do not go home to an environment where there is ample opportunity to talk with others about what they learn, it is important for teachers to provide experiences in the classroom that give students ample experiences about which to talk.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 8________ refer(s) to the speaker's intentions as interpreted by the listener.
A) Morphology
B) Conversational principles
C) Presuppositions
D) Illocutionary force
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