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PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS
History, Foundation, and Teaching of English Language
1st Semester, A.Y. 2020-2021

Instructions:

Answer the questions with clarity and brevity.

Provide research-based details for your answers.
Submit the document before the due.
Avoid plagiarism.

Rubrics:
(attached herewith)
(sent in advance to the Google Classroom)

Questions:
1. Which comes first: language or concept? Explain your answer.
2. Discuss an experiment done to attempt to find the first language of humankind.
3. Explain the discussed research about pre-listening. What could be the implications of the
research to language studies?
4. What topic in language learning and acquisition do you want to conduct a research about?
Explain your answer.

Answers:
1. Based on the discussion, it depends on the situation which of the two come first. For example, if
we take a look at how the children or babies are acquiring a language, the concept comes first
before the language. On the other hand, If a man just hears a word that is unfamiliar to him and
searches for the meaning of it, then the language comes first before the concept.
2. There was this King in Egypt who attempted to find what language God imparted to the first
humans. He isolated the infants with no interaction with other people. The herdsman who was
instructed not to talk with the baby was the one reporting what language the babies are
blabbering. When they were about two years old, their first word came out and that is “becos”.
In this experiment, they found out that it is natural for a human to develop and acquire
language.
3. Pre-Listening in other words are before listening which can be refer to the activities or tasks
done before the actual listening to make the people or the students prepare and engage more
in listening. This involves the vocabulary activities or just questions that will give a background
information on the topic of what they are going to listen. In simpler terms, this will make the
listening more interesting.
4. I want to conduct research about how we effectively use the right hemisphere of our brain in
learning a second language. Although there was already a research of Zhenghan Qi and her
colleagues, they only researched the Mandarin Language, which is tonal in nature. I want to
know how it will work if it’s opposite from the Mandarin and other tonal languages. The purpose
of it is for the educators of second language have an idea of the roles of the right brain
hemisphere so that they will be able to make strategies and techniques for the learners to
effectively learn the foreign language.