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CTL821S - CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS - 1ST OPP - NOVEMBER 2022 |
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nAmlBIA unlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHn0L0GY
FACULTYOF HUMANSCIENCES
DEPARTMENTOF COMMUNICATIONAND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION : BACHELOR OF ENGLISH (HONORS)
QUALIFICATION CODE: 8BHEN
LEVEL: 8
COURSE CODE: CTL821S
COURSE NAME: CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS
SESSION: October 2022
PAPER: Theory
DURATION:
3HRS
MARKS: 100
FIRSTOPPORTUNITYEXAMPAPER
EXAMINER(S) Dr Theresia Mushaandja
MODERATOR: Prof Collen Sabao
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Write clearly and neatly.
2. Number the answers clearly.
3. Answer all questions.
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 3 PAGES (Including this front page)
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Question 1
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1.1 Define the following term
A) Applied linguistics
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1.2 Decide whether the following statements are true or false
A) The difficulty in mastering certain structures in a second language (L2) depends on the
differences between the learners' mother tongue (Ll) and the language (L2) they are
trying to learn
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B) Transformational Generative Grammar is credited to Noam Chomsky
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C) The primary concern of generative phonology is the development of the rules that will
deal with the pronounceability of the strings 'generated' by the syntactic component of
the grammar.
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D) Classical phonology is preoccupied with phonemicising, while generative phonology is
not concerned with the generation of rules that apply to the phonemic level of
representation to yield the phonetic level of representation.
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Question 2
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Differentiate between the following terms
2.1 Second language learning and second language acquisition
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2.2 Micro and macro linguistics
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Question 3
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Provide brief answers to the following questions.
3.1 In which two areas of interest is contrastive linguistics connected with applied linguistics?
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3.2 What are two broad approaches to linguistics?
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3.3 Explain the areas of interests for the two approaches you identified in 3.2 above
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3.4 Identify and explain the two fundamental procedures involved when contrasting two
languages.
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Question 4
4.1 Explain "Case Grammar" as a language model for contrastive analysis (15: 10 marks
content; 5 marks language}.
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4.2 There are 5 different steps have been mentioned in the literature for CA (comparing and
contrasting two languages}; namely Selection, description, comparison, predictions and
verification. Clarify what happens during each of the named steps.
(10}
4.3 Hierarchy of difficulty: Plato identified six categories of difficulty in ascending order of
difficulty. With the aid of examples, name and discuss them
(20 marks content; 5 marks for language= 25}
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Question 5
5.1 Write explanatory notes to demonstrate your understanding of what the following terms
mean.
{15 marks content: 4 marks for language}
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A) Contrastive analysis
B) Error analysis
C) lnterlanguage
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