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a) Listening
b) Speaking
c) Vocabulary
d) Reading
2. Which macro skill focuses on understanding the meaning conveyed through written language?
a) Listening
b) Writing
c) Reading
d) Speaking
3. Which communicative skill involves the ability to convey ideas clearly and effectively in speech?
a) Vocabulary
b) Grammar
c) Pronunciation
d) Speaking
4. Which macro skill involves the ability to comprehend and interpret spoken language?
a) Writing
b) Reading
c) Listening
d) Speaking
5. Which communicative skill encompasses both verbal and non-verbal elements in conveying messages?
a) Listening
b) Speaking
c) Writing
d) Body language
1. What is the primary characteristic that distinguishes creole languages from pidgins?
a.) Developed from a simplified mixture of languages
b.) Lack of native speakers
c.) Formalized grammar and vocabulary
d.) Limited use in daily communication
4. Which of the following statements accurately describes the development of creole languages?
a) They originate from a mixture of languages with simplified grammar and vocabulary
b) They evolve from pidgin languages spoken in specific geographic regions
c) They are spoken exclusively by indigenous peoples in isolated communities
d) They lack standardized grammar and vocabulary due to their informal nature.
a. Early English
b. Shakespeareian English
c. Shakespearean English
d. Far English
3. This is the study of how sound evolved through time. The example of this is the sea(/sæ/) and sea(/sí/)
a. Diachronic Linguistics
b. Diachronic Phonology
c. Synchronic Phonology
d. Synchronic Linguistics
4. This is the study of the relationship of word and its effect to the context and understanding of the speaker. For
example, the difference in using 'May' and 'may'.
a. Synchronic Morphology
b. Diachronic Morphology
c. Synchronic Linguistics
d. Diachronic Linguistics
5. This is the study of language in a specific point in time.
a. Synchonic
b. Diachronic
c. Synchronic
d. Synchronc
2. Journals, letters, texts, and emails falls under what type of communication?
a. verbal
c. written
b. spoken
d. non verbal
3. This term was defined as the statement that is true to all natural language.
a. linguistics universe c. linguistics multiverse
b. universal studio d. linguistics universal
3. This includes examples of rules such as the correct use of punctuation, spellings, forms of verbs, etc.
A. WORLD ENGLISH
B. WORLD ENGLISHES
C. STANDARD ENGLISH
D. FILIPINO ENGLISH
4. The differences in the forms that emerge as it is used in various contexts across the world.
A. WORLD ENGLISH
B. WORLD ENGLISHES
C. STANDARD ENGLISH
D. BRITISH ENGLISH
A. Inner Circle
C. Expanding Circle
B. Outer Circle
D. Extending Circle
3. Philippines belongs to ______________.
A. Inner Circle
C. Expanding Circle
B. Outer Circle
D. Extending Circle
4. USA belongs to _______________.
A. Inner Circle C. Expanding Circle
B. Outer Circle D. Extending Circle
5. Considered as the colonial legacy of the Inner Circle that’s why English is their _____________
______________.
A. Second Language
C. Native Language
B. Mother Tongue
D. Foreign Language
1. It is a feature of Human Language that states that a meaningless sound can have its own meaning when it is
combined altogether in a specific manner.
a. Semanticity
b. Productivity
c. Learnability
d. Duality of Patterning
2. The ability of the Language user to create lies and meaningless statements.
a. Interchangeability
b. Total Feedback
c. Prevarication
d. Discreetness
3. A feature defined as “every language user has the capability to talk about what happened in the past and what
could possibly happen in the future despite not being present in the immediate environment.''
a. Productivity
b. Displacement
c. Reflexiveness
d. Rapid Fading .
4. A linguistic anthropologist who listed all the features of human language that occurred as a universal
commonness of all languages.
a. Charleston Hocket
b. Charley Hockket
c. Charles Hockett
d. Charles Huccket
5. The feature of Human Language that allows the speaker to become the listener and vice versa.
a. Interchangeability
b. Broadcast Transmission
c. Arbitrariness
d. Vocal-Auditory Channel
2. It means to be conscious and means to be awake and receptive to stimulus received from the surrounding
environment.
A. Language Capacity
B. Critical Thinking
C. Animal Language
D. Self – Awareness
3. Animals can communicate with each other but they are not considered to have a language.
A. Language Capacity
B. Critical Thinking
C. Animal Language
D. Self – Awareness
1. According to this theory, language began when our ancestors started imitating the natural sounds around them
A. The bow-wow theory
B. The ding dong theory
C. The la-la theory
2. According to this theory, language evolved from the grunts, groans, and snorts evoked by the heavy physical
labor.
A. Yo-he-ho theory
B. The la-la theory
C. The ding dong theory
3. According to this theory, language evolved through the romantic period of life
A. The ding dong theory
B. The bow-wow theory
C. The la-la theory
4. According to this theory, the language arose through the help of the sounds that are associated with it
A. The ding dong theory
B. The la-la theory
C. Yo-he-ho theory
1. What is the title of the biblical mythological account of the origin of language?
a. The Tower of Babel
b. The Building of Babel
c. The Babel Story
d. Destruction of Babel
2. Babel means _____.
a. to destroy
b. to confuse
c. to shuffle
d. to create
3. How many theories are listed by Max Muller in the origin of language?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. 7
4. What mythologcal story says that langauge originated by eating the flesh of a human?
a. The Death of Wururri
b. The Death of Wurruri
c. The Death of Wururi
d. The Death of Waruri
5. What mythological story in the origin of language that says language came from scattered branches of a tree?
a. The Hindu World Tree
b. The Himalayan World Tree
c. The World Tree
d. The Knowledge Tree
____ 1. What is the full name of the Danish Linguist and foremost an authority in English grammar.
a. Jens Otto Harry Jespersen
c. Jans Otto Harry Jespersen
b. Hens Otto Harry Jespersen
d. Hans Otto Harry Jespersen
____ 2. In what particular year he published the book entitled, “Language: It’s Nature, Development and
Origin”?
a. 1902 b. 1912 c. 1922 d. 1932
____ 3. It is a human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals such as voice sounds, gestures or
written symbols.
a. Hand Signals
c. Dialogue
b. Language
d. Expression
____ 5. The idea that speech emerged from the sounds of inspired playfulness, love, poetic, sensibility, and
song.
a. Yoheho Theory
c. Bow-Wow Theory
b. Lala Theory
d. Ding dong Theory
1. What is semiotics?
A. the study of sign and symbol
B. sign language
C. language in alphabet
D. signifier and signified
1. This is a way of communicating using hand movements, gestures, facial expressions, and body language
instead of spoken words. It's used by deaf and hard-of-hearing people to convey messages and ideas.
a. Hand Language
b. Sign gestures
c. Sign Language
d. Sign language movement
2. It is a component of sign language where individual letters or words are represented by specific hand shapes.
It enhances communication by spelling out names, places, or unfamiliar words.
a. Finger signing
b. Finger spelling
c. Spelling fingers
d. Finger spelling gestures
3. Which letters are different between the American Sign Language alphabet and the Filipino Sign Language
alphabet?
a. A, D, Z, NG, Ñ
b. Ñ, NG, T, K, M
c. G, Ñ, NG, B, C,
d. E, G, T, Ñ, NG
4. What is the act/law that declared Filipino Sign Language (FSL) as the national sign language for the Filipino
deaf community?
a. R.A 11106
b. R.A 11109
c. R.A 11061
d. R.A 11160
5. It is a visual language used by deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the Philippines, characterized by its own
unique grammar and vocabulary, to communicate. It involves hand movements, gestures, facial expressions, and
body language instead of spoken words.
a. American Sign Language
b. Filipino deaf language
c. Philippine Sign Language
d. National Sign Language
1. Linguistic relativity states that language structure affect the way people ______ a word.
A. use
B. determine
C. conceptualize
D. spell
2. Linguistic determinism states that structure of a language can strongly influence or determine
someone’s __________
A. opinion
B. motto
C. personality
D. world view
3. This describes a consistent and integral sense of existence and provides a theoretical framework for
A. language
B. world view
C. culture
D. history
4. It shows how the techniques of unique oral performances enhance the aesthetic value of their
A. ethnopoetics
B. theatrical act
C. ritual
D. poetry
A. chants
B. proverbs
C. prophecies
D. painting
1. Who proposed the Oral Gesture Theory or also known as Speech Gesture Theory?
a. Richard Paget
b. Richard Piaget
c. Richvon Paget
d. Richvon Piaget
2. This gestures are a type of non-verbal communication used by a speaker to aid communication.
a. Iconic Gesture
b. Representational Gesture
c. Beat geasture
d. Interactive gesture
3. A monkey saw how the caretaker is opening and giving the banana to them. Which mirror neuron is being
activated?
4. A particular case study that shows the development of language evolution is the emergence of the ______.
5. Fogassi & Ferrari (2014) investigated the motor cortex in monkeys, also known as _______.
a. F2
b. F4
c. F3
d. F5
1. His revolutionary book “Syntactic Structures,” laid the foundation of his non-empiricist theory of language.
A. Chomsky
B. Aristotle
C. Lowth
D. Jones
2. He is the one who identified the basic components of sentences such as the verb and noun?
A. Aristotle
B. Jones
C. Lowth
D. Chomsky
A. De Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Jones
D. Lowth
4. In 1771, he published A Grammar of the Persian Language, which proved to be one of the best grammar texts
ever published in English about a language the Western world considered "exotic."
A. Lowth
B. Jones
C. Aristotle
D. De Saussure
5. His main contribution to structuralism was his theory of a two-tiered reality about language.
A. Chomsky
B. De Saussure
C. Aristotle
D. Lowth
5. What stage of language development does Charles Darwin stated that people started to add meanings to the
sounds that they were making.
A. Stage 1
B. Stage 2
C. Stage 3
D. It is not included in the stages
1. Which of the following events marked the beginning of the English language’s development from its
Anglo-Saxon roots?
2. During the Middle English period, which significant event influenced the English language through its
impact on vocabulary?
B. The Renaissance
bible in 1611
A. William Shakespeare
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Christopher Marlowe
4. Which of the following factors contribute to the expansion of English as a global language during the
5. Which of the following individuals played a crucial role in the development of American English during
the 19 century ?
th
A. Noah Webster
B. Alexander Pope
C. Jonathan Swift
a. Proto-Germanic Language
b. Indo-European Language
c. Romance Languages
d. Anglo-Saxon
2. After the 1066 invasion, with the lead of William the Conqueror with his Norman army, this language exist,
a. Germanic Languages
b. Old Norse
c. Old French
d. Romance Languages
3. The Old English belongs to Germanic language family. First brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th
centuries by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The Germanic dialects they spoke would become known as?
a. Proto-Germanic Language
b. Indo-European Language
c. Romance Languages
d. Anglo-Saxon
4. This is the common ancestor of various romance languages such as Latin, English, Swedish, German, and many
other.
a. Proto-Germanic Language
b. Indo-European Language
c. Romance Languages
d. Anglo-Saxon
5. This language family includes nearly all languages historically spoken in Europe, as well as large parts of
a. Proto-Germanic Language
b. Indo-European Language
c. Romance Languages
d. Anglo-Saxon
1. It serves as a reconstructed language, pieced together by linguists through the analysis of similarities among
A) Proto-Indo-European
B) Ancient Greek
C) Latin
D) Sanskrit
A) Hittite
B) Lycian
C) Lydian
D) Luwian
3. This period began in 449 AD with the arrival of three Germanic tribes from the Continent: the Angles,
4. It emerged after the Norman Conquest of 1066, when the Normans conquered England.
A) Middle English
5. This period is characterized by standardized spelling, grammar, and vocabulary, although it continues to
D) Modern English
1. Who is the first person who studied the Great Vowel Shift?
A. Otto Jespersen
B. Karl Marx
C. Johann Herder
D. Max Muller
A. 1986-1987
B. 1600
C. 1500-1800
D. 1700-1900
A. Bible
B. Language
C. Consonants
D. Books
A. Chain Shift
B. Vowel Shift
C. Language Shift
D. Pronunciation Shift
A. Chain Shift
B. Language Shift
C. Pronunciation Shift
D. Vowel Shift
1. refers to a group of people who share rules for conducting and interpreting at least one variety of a language or
dialect.
a. community
b. speech
c. language variation
d. speech community
2. also called lect—is a general term for any distinctive form of a language or linguistic expression.
a. community
b. speech
c. language variation
d. speech community
3. a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.
a. community
b. speech
c. language variation
d. speech community
5. the last element that shall be omitted when considering identifying a speech community.
a. area
b. interaction
c. language
d. population
1. It refers to regional, social, or contextual differences in the ways that a particular language is used.
a. Language
b. Dialect
c. LINGUISTIC VARIATION
5. It is a variety of language that is recognized and adopted by its government and spoken and written by the
majority of people in a country.
a. Standard Language
b. Pidgin
c. NATIONAL/OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
1. It refers to historic language or communication that is intended to remain unchanged and it is often learned by rote
A. Frozen
B. Intimate
C. Formal
D. Casual
2. It is a straightforward style, it follows a prescriptive format and the speaker uses complete sentences, avoids
slang, and may use technical and academic vocabulary.
A. Casual
B. Formal
C. Static
D. Intimate
3. It refers to a style of language or communication that is used in professional or formal settings that requires two-
way participation.
A. Consultative
B. Formal
C. Casual
D. Frozen
4. Also known as informal language or colloquial language, refers to a style of communication that is relaxed,
spontaneous, and suitable for informal settings that is characterized by its simplicity, use of everyday vocabulary, and lack
of strict adherence to grammatical rules or formal conventions.
A. Consultative
B. Intimate
C. Casual
D. Formal
5. I love you so much babe, I will miss you, keep safe, are the example of this type of register
A. Frozen D. Formal
B. Intimate
C. Casual
1. A process that occurs when a language is no longer spoken across the world.
a. Language Shift
b. Language Death
c. Language Vitality
d. Language Maintenance
a. Gradual
b. Bottom-to-Top
c. Sudden
d. Radical
3. The type of language death that involves the slowly declining number of speakers of a particular language.
a. Gradual
b. Bottom-to-Top
c. Sudden
d. Radical
4. A type of language death where the speakers naturally died, or intentionally killed due to various possible
reasons.
a. Gradual
b. Bottom-to-Top
c. Sudden
d. Radical
5. It refers to the type of language death where a particular language only survives in some contexts, but are no
a. Gradual
b. Bottom-to-Top
c. Sudden
d. Radical
1. It refers to the biological and physiological differences between men and women.
a. Gender
a. Sex
a. language and gender
a. homosexual
2. It refers to the socially constructed characteristics of men and women, such as norms, roles, and relationships
among and between groups of men and women.
a. Gender
a. Sex
a. Language and Gender
a. Homosexual
4. Theories about gender differences state that men and women belong to different subcultures and preferences,
resulting in a clear difference in the way in which groups speak.
a. Dominance theory
a. Deficit theory
a. Difference theory
a. Gender schema theory
5. Theories about gender differences state that there is a conviction about women’s lack of language.
a. Dominance theory
a. Deficit theory
a. Difference theory
a. Gender schema theory
1. It is the change in one’s language or speech style to move closer in the style of the person they are speaking
to.
a. Divergence
c. Social Class
b. Convergence d. Prestige
2. It is the change in one’s language or speech style to move away in the style of the person they are speaking
to.
b. Convergence d. Prestige
3. Which among the following is an informal version of language which usually contains colloquialisms and
slangs?
a. Static c. Frozen
b. Casual d. Formal
a. Casual c. Consultative
b. Intimate d. Formal
1. Which of the classifications of languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in
b. Chavacanos d. Cantonese
2. Which of the national or official languages in the Philippines became the lingua franca in the 19th and
a. English c. Spanish
b. Chinese d. Filipino
3. What do you call a group of 600 American teachers who traveled from the United States to the newly
a. Tomasites c. Thomasetes
b. Thomasites d. Thomasates
4. The language is usually called _______ within the Philippines and among Filipinos to differentiate it from
a. Filipino c. Baybayin
b. Pilipino d. Tagalog
5. Which of the major foreign languages is spoken as a lingua franca in the southernmost parts of the
Philippines, from Zamboanga down to Tawi-Tawi among a minority of the Tausog, Bajau, and Yakan peoples?
a. Arabic c. Japanese
b. Malay d. Chavacanos
1. This is the most prestigious variety of Philippine English
4. Refers to the English of those who are taking care of children who are fluent in English.
1. What is the term that is defined as the use of multiple languages at the same time in the same place?
2. What type of Language Contact that has occurred through the transmission of literature, media, or through
new technologies such as television, mobile phones, radio, and the internet?
4. What do you call this outcome of Language Contact in which language is born from the contact of two
languages, such as: pidgin, creole, and bilingual mixed languages?