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CTL821S - CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS - 1ST OPP - NOV 2024 |
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nAmlBIA unlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCESAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION : BACHELOR OF ENGLISH (HONORS)
QUALIFICATION CODE: 8BHEN
LEVEL: 8
COURSE CODE: CTL 821S
COURSE NAME: CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS
SESSION: NOVEMBER 2024
DURATION: 3 HOURS
PAPER: THEORY (PAPER 1)
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION PAPER
MS. T KAVIHUHA
MODERATOR: PROF. COLLEN SABAO
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3. Number the answers clearly
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF _3_ PAGES (Including this front page)
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GENERALINSTRUCTION:This comprehensive examination paper has four questions. Readthe
instructions in each question carefully before answering the question.
Question 1:
[12Marks]
1.1 Define the following terms:
A) Applied linguistics
(1)
B) Fossilisation
(1)
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 (LI) and the language (L2) they are
trying to learn.
(2)
B) Transformational Generative Grammar is credited by Noam Chomsky?
(2)
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.
(2)
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.
(2)
E) Error analysis can deal effectively with production and not with reception.
(2)
Question 2: Provide brief answers to the following questions:
[GMarks]
3.1 In which two areas of interest is contrastive linguistics connected to applied linguistics?
(2)
3.2. Identify 4 descriptive linguistic groupings of the categories of grammar.
(4)
Question 3: Differentiate between the following terms:
2.1. Particularists and generalists
2.2. Error and mistake
2.3. Diachronic and synchronic approaches as sciences of language
[12Marks]
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Question 4:
[70 Marks]
4.1. Explain the relationship between applied linguistics, second language learning and
contrastive linguistics.
(10)
4.2. Tarone et al. (2001) state that there are four characteristics or observable facts of the
Inter Language theory. Briefly discuss these characteristics
(20)
4.2. Write an essay (of max 250 words) explaining the historical development of Contrastive
Analysis. (ZOMarks: 15 content and 5 language)
(20)
4.3. Write an essay explaining thedimitations of error analysis.
(20)
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