1. Which language belongs to the Indo-European language family?

a. Basque

b. Finnish

c. Welsh

d. Turkish

2. Which two languages do not belong to the Indo-European language family?

a. Hungarian and Finnish
b. Norwegian and Swedish

c. Romanian and Portuguese

d. Russian and Czech

3. Which Indo-European language has most native speakers?

a. English

b. Hindi

c. Russian

d. Spanish

4. When a student´s language fails to develop any further you speak of...

a. negative transfer

b. strategic incompetence

c. recursion

d. fossilization

5. The term interlanguage is used to refer to...

a. the language used in the interaction between teacher and student

b. the language used in the interaction between students

c. the language used in the interaction between two foreign students

d. the student´s language with elements of both L1 and L2

6. The process in first language acquisition which produces forms such as mans and foots is called...

a. overcorrection

b. overgeneralization
c. overkill

d. overemphasis

7. Penguin is a ... of bird.

a. homonym

b. synonym

c. hyponym
d. prototype

8. When describing the meaning of words in terms of +animate, -human etc. we describe...

a. semantic features

b. semantic roles

c. lexical relations

d. prototypes

9. The initial sound in thanks is a ...

a. voiceless dental stop.

b. voiced dental stop.

c. voiceless dental fricative.

d. voiced dental fricative.

10. The initial sound in that is a ...

a. voiceless dental stop.

b. voiced dental stop.

c. voiceless dental fricative.

d. voiced dental fricative.


11. The last sound in please is a ...

a. voiced alveolar fricative


b. voiceless alveolar fricative.

c. voiced palatal fricative.

d. voiceless palatal fricative.

12. The last sound in thanks is a ...

a. voiced alveolar fricative.

b. voiceless alveolar fricative.


c. voiced palatal fricative.

d. voiceless palatal fricative