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What makes a discourse community different from a speech community?
Select one:
a.
Its members use languages while speech community members use dialects.
b.
Its members may not know each other in person or be in the same location.
c.
Its members use specialist linguistic jargon (metalanguage).
d.
It is hard to define exactly where the boundaries of the community are.
What are the three components of rhetorical context?
Select one:
a.
Audience, Purpose, Focus
b.
Dialect, Language, Discourse
c.
Features, Texts, Genres
d.
Listening, Reading, Viewing
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Which of the following best defines 'genre'?
Select one:
a.
A type of text that has fixed conventions or features
b.
A reasonably established way of communicating in a particular type of situation whenever it occurs
c.
A collection of texts that may be spoken or written
d.
A category of literary work such as prose, poetry or drama
Why is there no single 'appropriate academic style'?
Select one:
a.
Deciding what is appropriate depends on the rhetorical context of each text.
b.
Different subject areas have different conventions.
c.
Different lecturers have different preferences.
d.
The rules change all the time.
Which of the following is NOT a weakness of the generic 'study skills' model of English for Academic Purposes?
Select one:
a.
The skills covered in a standalone course or workshops do not always align with expectations of content
lecturers.
b.
There are no useful skills that all university students can benefit from learning.
c.
It treats the process of studying as separate from the subject knowledge that is studied.
d.
It does not reflect the fact that different academic disciplines create and demonstrate knowledge in very
different ways.
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Which of the following practices conflicts with principles of effective language acquisition?
Select one:
a.
Introducing English as a subject as early as Grade 1
b.
Teaching literature and language within a single subject
c.
Using English as the medium of instruction when it's a second language
d.
Teaching explicit rules about the grammar of a second language before learners have any communicative
need to use it.
What term is given to the ability to communicate effectively about challenging (and often abstract) classroom
concepts?
Select one:
a.
Cognitive academic language proficiency
b.
Academic literacy
c.
Rhetorical context
d.
Native speaker competence in a second language
Which of the following is an efficient approach to take in the short term to support learners more effectively across
the English medium curriculum?
Select one:
a.
All content teachers should be upskilled to be able to teach the specific language features of their own
subjects.
b.
All classes should be taught by a content teacher and a language teacher at the same time.
c.
Language and content teachers can try out different ways of collaborating together or helping each other
think in new ways about the issue.
d.
The English syllabus and all content syllabi should be completely revised to reflect the fact that the medium
of instruction is an L2.
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Which type of pronoun is used in the following sentence?
"We will succeed if we all work together."
Select one:
a.
1st person plural object
b.
1st person plural subject
c.
2nd person plural subject
d.
2nd person plural object
What type of verb is 'bake' in "Place in a warm oven and bake for 25 minutes"?
Select one:
a.
Passive
b.
Modal
c.
Imperative
d.
Present tense
What technique is used in the following text?
"It was literally the worst thing that could ever happen to me. I'd jumped over it a million times before and always
been fine, but this time I tripped and caught my shoe on the post and lost my balance, almost falling into the puddle
in front of everyone."
Select one:
a.
Alliteration
b.
Hyperbole
c.
Neologism
d.
Repetition
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What type of sentence is the following? "Despite living a long way from campus, I prefer to study in the library rather than at home."
Select one:
a.
Simple
b.
Complex
c.
Compound
d.
Complex compound
What device is used by the author of the sticky note?
(If the picture doesn't load, it shows a sign on a door that reads: "This door is alarmed." On top of this sign,
someone has stuck a handwritten note asking: "What startled it?")
Select one:
a.
Pun
b.
Appellation
c.
Euphemism
d.
Connotation
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What technique is used in the following text?
“We will fight to the death, we will fight until we are no more, we will fight for as long as it takes.”
Select one:
a.
Imagery
b.
Alliteration
c.
Assonance
d.
Repetition
Which of the following sentences is incomplete?
Select one:
a.
It's terrible.
b.
That it happened at all is terrible.
c.
A terrible thing happened.
d.
A terrible thing to have happened.
What type of verb is used in the following sentence?
"For all of us, this has been a strange but valuable experience."
Select one:
a.
Present perfect
b.
Present continuous
c.
Passive
d.
Modal
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What is the purpose of the subordinate clause in the following sentence?
"Red mangroves, which can survive in the most inundated areas, keep themselves above the water level with stilt
roots."
Select one:
a.
To link the subject to the predicate of the sentence.
b.
To show that this is an ongoing situation.
c.
To provide additional detail about the mangroves.
d.
To express lack of certainty through the modal 'can'.
Which of the following sentences has the highest lexical density?
Select one:
a.
Recognise this as a setback but also as a bridge to the next adventure.
b.
Beam bridges are horizontal beams supported at each end by substructure units.
c.
A bridge is a type of computer network device that provides interconnection with other bridge
networks that use the same protocol. d.
As I crossed the bridge near my hotel, I gazed up at the skyline for the very last time.
Which of the following features is used to make writing more assertive?
Select one:
a.
Modal auxiliaries such as 'might' and 'may'
b.
Reference to proof or evidence
c.
Epistemic verbs such as 'seem' and 'appear'
d.
Adverbs of frequency such as 'often' and 'usually'
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What is the purpose of nominalisation in academic writing?
Select one:
a.
To make writing more concise
b.
To provide a more formal tone
c.
To use a greater number of verbs, which are clearer than nouns
d.
To avoid using the passive voice
In which of the following sections of a research report would you be most likely to use hedging language?
Select one:
a.
Discussion of results (explaining why you think you found what you did) b.
Results (explaining what you found)
c.
Recommendations (explainining what you think should happen next, in light of your study)
d.
Methodology (explaining what you did)
Which of the reasons below does NOT provide a good justification for the use of the passive voice in the following
text?
"The indicators used to forecast growth are aligned to the methodology employed by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics
with relevant data obtained from various sources." (Reserve Bank of Fiji)
Select one:
a.
It creates an appropriate style for this type of report.
b.
It makes the writing more concise.
c.
It is not important to mention who exactly is using the indicators or obtaining the data.
d.
It shifts the focus of the sentence to the indicators, methodology and data to demonstrate the validity of the
process.
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What is the function of the words this
and such in the following sentence?
"This incident demonstrates that such actions are justified."
Select one:
a.
They create cohesion between this sentence and the previous one.
b.
They make the text more abstract because we don't know what they refer to here.
c.
They are more formal alternatives to phrases like 'therefore', which are overused.
d.
They link forward to the sentence that will follow.
In which of the following sentences, does the writer show the LEAST agreement with the point made by Jenkins?
Select one:
a.
As Jenkins (2000) demonstrates, there are several features of L1 English pronunciation that appear
unnecessary for successful communication.
b.
The Lingua Franca Core (Jenkins, 2000) lists several features of L1 English pronunciation that L2 users can
ignore without causing problems.
c.
Jenkins (2000) has identified several features of L1 English pronunciation that will not hinder communication
if they are not used.
d.
Jenkins (2000), a native speaker of English, claims that many features of L1 English pronunciation are simply
not necessary for the rest of us.
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