Choose the correct answer

1. Which of these is not related to constrastive linguistics?
A. conversation analysis
B. language differentiation
C. language assessment
D. sign linguistics


2. A language that the learner has known fails to affect the next language she/ he learns.
A. True
B. False

3. What is the sentence pattern of “The girl standing next to the door is an actress.”?
A. SVC
B. SVO
C. SVOA
D. SVOC



4. Word structure analysis and word formation analysis are the same.
A. True
B. False


5. Which set of words is a minimal pair?
A. their – there
B. sink – single
C. these – those
D. meat – meet

6. What is the sentence pattern of “The books have been put on the table.”?
A. SVA
B. SVOO
C. SVOA
D. SVOC

7. The author of the book Teaching and learning English as a foreign language is Baudouin de Courtenay.
A. True
B. False

8. What kind of TC is described for the following: Relations between texts of two different languages which illicit from the language user the maximally similar cognitive effects: + Functions of a unit, construction, structure + How these linguistic devices behave in speech acts in each speech community.
A. Semanto-syntactic equivalence
B. Pragmatic equivalents
C. Equivalents in objects
D. Rule equivalence

9. What is the sentence pattern of “What she did made me angry.”?
A. SVC
B. SVO
C. SVOA
D. SVOC

10. Negative transfer refers to the processes whereby L1 knowledge facilitates the acquisition of L2.
A. True
B. False

11. Contrastive analysis can be conducted on different linguistic levels.
A. True
B. False

12. Contrastive linguistics started developing ………………. as an independent discipline within the field of applied linguistics.
A. in the middle of XX century
B. at the end of XX century
C. in the XIX century
D. in the XVII century

13. Linking methods include coordination conjunction approach and subordination conjunction approach.
A. True
B. False

14. There are two kinds of language transfer: negative and positive language transfer.
A. True
B. False


15.What is the sentence pattern of “My friend who has glasses wasn't at school today.”?
A. SVC
B. SVO
C. SVA
D. SV

16. Which of these statements is NOT true about contrastive analysis?
A. It compares between a pair of languages.
B. It studies similarities and differences of language structures.
C. It focuses on L2 language acquisition.
D. It looks at the learner’s L1 and L2.

17.What kind of TC is described for the followings: Equivalent established on paradigmatic + syntagmatic axis Examine members of system + their collocation
A. System equivalence
B. Statistical equivalence
C. Translational equivalence

18. What kind of TC is described for the following: Objects or entities outside language expressed by vocabulary in L1 & L2, e.g. foods, festivals in English culture & Vietnamese
A. Semanto-syntactic equivalence
B. Pragmatic equivalents
C. Equivalents in objects
D. Rule equivalence

19. Homophones are…………………………………………..
A. words that are pronounce and possibly spelled the same, but with a different meaning.
B. words that are spelled the same and pronounced differently.
C. words that have one meaning but are spelled and prounounced differently.
D. words that are pronounced differently and spelled the same, but have the same meaning.

20. There are 3 development periods of contrastive linguistics.
A. True
B. False