SLA - Chapter 5

The microsocial focus in SLA deals with the potential effects of different immediately surrounding circumstances, while the macrosocial focus relates SLA to broader _____, political, and educational environments.

• geographical
• economical

• cultural
• social

_____ involves knowing not only the vocabulary, phonology, grammar, and other aspects of linguistic structure but also when to speak (or not), what to say to whom, and how to say it appropriately in any given situation.

• Communicative competence

• Linguistic competence

• Transitional competence

• Academic competence

The term _____ community refers to a group of people who share knowledge of a common language to at least some extent.

• language

• history

• society

• geography

Saville-Troike (2003) defined communicative competence as “what a speaker needs to know to communicate _____ within a particular language community”.

• fluently
• adequately
• incoherently
• appropriately

Through a social lens, _____ typically refers to an additional language which is learned within a context where it is societally dominant and needed for education, employment, and other basic purposes.

• second language

• library language

• auxiliary language

• foreign language

Through a social lens, _____ typically refers to an additional language that is not widely used in the learners’ immediate social context, but rather one that might be used for future travel or other cross-cultural communication situations, or one that might be studied as a curricular requirement or elective in school with no immediate or necessary practical application.

• second language

• library language

• auxiliary language

• foreign language

Through a social lens, _____ typically refers to an additional language that learners need to know for some official functions in their immediate sociopolitical setting, or that they will need for purposes of wider communication, although their first language serves most other needs in their lives.

• second language

• library language

• auxiliary language

• foreign language

_____ can be defined as multiple linguistic forms that are systematically or predictably used by different speakers of a language, or by the same speakers at different times, with the same or very similar meaning or function.

• Variable features

• Invariable features

• Phonetic features

• Synonymous features

_____ is a framework for study of SLA that is based on the notion that speakers usually unconsciously change their pronunciation and even the grammatical complexity of sentences they use to sound more like whomever they are talking to.

• Accommodation Theory

• Acculturation Theory

• Sociocultural Theory

• Processability Theory

From a social perspective, interaction is generally seen as _____ in providing learners with the quantity and quality of external linguistic input.

• Insignificant
• Negligible
• Irrelevant
• Crucial