CI 775 Applied KSDE Assessment # 6
Linguistics: Final Assessment
Standards 1 and 5
FINAL EXAM SCORE REPORT FORM
Name of Student ______________________________________
Social Security Number ________________________________
Course Section ________________________________________
Semester _____________________________________________
Total Possible: 18 Points
To meet all standards, students must achieve a total of 5/8 points for Standard 1 and 7/10
for Standard 5, for a total of 12/18.
CI 775 Applied Linguistics Final Assessment Score Report
Standard 1
Target
7-8 points
Acceptable
5-6 points
Unacceptable
< 5 points
Target
9-10 points
Acceptable
7-8 points
Unacceptable
< 7 points
Total Points Achieved for Standard 1
(#s 1-8) ________
Standard 5
Total Points Achieved for Standard 5
(#s 9-18)
_____
TOTAL POINTS FOR ALL
STANDARDS: ________
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CI 775 Applied Linguistics Final Assessment – Sample Questions
S1-K1
1. Which group of words below ALL end in voiceless sounds when they are pronounced?
a. Touch, box, boards
b. Walked, shows, ripped
c. Picked, stopped, sits
d. Talk, hoped, boxes
2. Which of the following indicates a manner of articulation?
a. Glottal
b. Velar
c. Stop
d. Dental
S1, K2
3. In which of the following examples would the “a” be treated as a bound morpheme?
a. AWOL
b. Atypical
c. Apple
d. A boy
4. Which of the following expressions would be generated by this phrase structure rule: NP � Art
(Adj) N
a. The rusty car
b. The screwdriver
c. A new student
d. All of them
S1, K3
5. Which of the following expressions is an example of ‘calque?’
a. luna de miel (Spanish) -- honeymoon (English)
b. mishin (Japanese) – machine (English)
c. trening (Hungarian) – training (English)
d. All of the above
6. Which statement is research-based and mostly relevant to fundamental concepts in Linguistics?
a. ESOL students need to take a course in Linguistics at the beginning
level.
b. The task of linguists is to describe, not persuade
c. ESOL teachers must know at least a foreign language
d. All of the above
S1, K4
7. What are the deictic (pointing) expressions in the following utterance:
I’m busy now so you can’t do that here.
a. I, now, you
a. That, here
b. I, you, that, here
c. a and b
8. What are the four most commonly used language in the US?
a. English, Spanish, Vietnamese, ASL
b. English, Spanish, Italian, ASL
c. Spanish, English, Hmong, Arabic
d. English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Arabic
S5, K1
9. Why might “foreigner talk” or “teacher talk” be beneficial to the second language learner?
a. It may provide clear examples of the basic language structure of English
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b. It may provide communicative success for the beginning learner
c. It may reduce anxiety for the beginning learner
d. a, b, and c
10. Why is it important for an ESOL teacher to understand the amount of communication among
native speakers?
a. ESOL students have to learn more than words to be successful communicators.
b. Academic success will be dependent on both verbal and non-verbal abilities of ESOL
learners.
c. Teachers can “teach” non-verbal as well as verbal aspects of communication.
d. All of the above.
S5, K2
11. What is the primary reason that it is important to teach reading, writing,
speaking and listening to non-native speakers?
a. Communication involves all these skills
b. These are the same skills native speakers learn
c. These cannot be learned in isolation
d. They are a critical contributor to academic success.
12. Children require ___________ in order to bring their “language faculty”
into operation with a particular language.
a. Sufficient opportunities for imitation
b. A linguistic repertoire
c. Sufficient TV
d. Interaction
S5, K3
13. What is meant by the term idiolect?
e. The personal dialect of an individual speaker
f. The dialect of an idiot savant
g. The ideas represented by a person’s dialect
h. None of the above
14. The Aztecs did not have a figure for Santa Claus nor did they
have a word for this figure. This is an example of
a. Different languages have different words for common objects.
b. Different groups, like the Aztecs, were not Christian.
c. Different groups have different cultures and language represents whatever that culture is
d. None of the above.
S8, K1
15. Which of the following sets of words all have prefixes?
a. unfaithful, fortunate
b. carelessness, openminded
c. disagree, unfortunate
d. refillable, carphone
16. Which of the following endings is “voiceless”?
a. opened
b. looked
c. showed
d. studied
S5, K4
17. What proportion of communication among native speakers is non-verbal?
a. 10%
b. 30%
c. 50%
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d. 70%
18. What happens when an interlanguage fossilizes?
a. The target language maintains some of the key characteristics of the person’s first
language as it continues to develop.
b. There is no further development of the second language.
c. The person cannot speak the second language at all.
d. All of the above.
Answer Key:
1. c
2. c
10. d 11. a
3. c
4. d
5. a
6. d
7. c
8. a
9. d
12. d
13. c
14. b
15. c
16. b
17. a
18. a
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