University of Nyala

Faculty of Education
Basic Level programme – General English
Exam: Basic- Class: 1 Time allowed: 3hours

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‫ االجابة علي ورقة االسئلة‬: ‫ملحوظة‬
Answer the following questions
:Question one
?A: What's contrastive linguistics
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.B: Answer Yes or No
Contrastive linguistics is the predicting or explaining the difficulty of -1
.second language with particular mother's tongue
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.The elements that are similar to native speaker will be simple for him -2
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Individual tends to transfer the form, meaning and culture to foreign -3
.language
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:Question Two
:Underline the correct word
.First language background has (more \ little) influence on L2 -1
Where two languages were (different \ similar) negative transfer would -2
.occur
positive transfer" refers to the automatic use of L1 structures in L2 " .3
performance when the structures in both are the (same \ different)

:Question Tree
:Correct the following errors
I studied English for two year -1
She cried asif she was a baby -2
She doesn't wants to go -3

:Question Four
.Read the following statements and write either true r false
Contrastive linguistics is the systematic comparison of two languages -1
.so as to describe the similarities only
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Children who are learning L2 at host countries are exposed to peers -2
.who speak language natively make few errors
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The transfer of L1 structures to L2 performance is "negative" when L2 -3
and L1 structures are differ and "positive" when L2 and L1 structures are
.the same
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.A language in writing not peach -4
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The contrastive studies are highlighting the characteristics of -5
individual languages and defining the relationship between languages
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