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What is a variable in research?
- Authenticity of a sample under investigation
- A kind of a statistical test
- Sampling of data in research
- A characteristic that can be measured and that can assume have different values
What is Linguistic Imperialism?
- Use of a language for communication between different language communities
- Language exploitation of a powerful group for some advantages
- A language of any state
- A colonial language
Who presented Three Circles Model of World English?
- Schneider
- George Widdowson
- Moag
- Braj Kachru
What is Spiral Curriculum?
- Involving teaching staff to develop new relevant curricula
- Focuses on what learners are excepted to know in various subject areas
- The key concepts over time in the context of new
- One system of curriculum, medium of instruction and assessment in a state
What is Code Switching in Linguistics?
- The loan-borrowing vocabulary from one language to another
- Use of two languages or dialects in a single sentence
- Permanent alternatives in a language over time
- The choice of words and style of expression
What is Snowball Sampling?
- A given number of subjects are selected from a specific group
- Existing people are asked to nominate further people known to them
- Choosing population according to researcher’s own judgement
- Choosing the willing and potential participants
Parole in structuralism is defined as?
- A set of rules
- Background knowledge
- An individual utterance
- Something only written
Pragmatics is the study of?
- Linguistic meaning
- Intended meaning
- Denotative meaning
- Literal meaning
The words said within inverted commas are termed as?
- Indirect speech
- Direct speech
- Expressive words
- None
What is the indirect form of speech in the given sentence: He says, “I will sit in the garden”?
- He said that he was sitting in the garden
- He said that he will sit in the garden
- He said that he should sit in the garden
- He said that he would sit in the garden
