¡Descarga English Language B2.2 Study Guide: Key Concepts and Questions - Prof. Domínguez y más Exámenes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! Possible questions in English B2.2 -What is a lingua franca ? The language used in a context of multiple languages (i.e. English in diplomatic relations). -What does the theory of multiple intelligences claim? That people display around nine different cognitive abilities rather than only one absolute intelligence (as traditionally measured in IQ tests). -Difference between interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence: Interpersonal: the ability to interact and cooperate with other people. Intrapersonal: capacity for introspection and self-reflection. -Difference between acronym (you pronouce a new word: AIDS) and abreviation (you read each letter: BBC). -Types of motivation in language learning: integrative (learning language to take part in a culture) vs. instrumental (learning language as a means to a particular aim). -Difference between gender (grammatical masc./fem.- or social indication male/female-) and genre (group of classification). -Difference between inflection (indicates grammatical changes) and derivation (creates new words). -Difference between semantics (deals with meaning) and pragmatics (has to do with meaning in context). -Which are the 4 categories of research? Primary: research on the phenomenon itself. Secondary: reading what other scholars have said. Qualitative: subjective. Quantitative: empirical, can be measured precisely. -Parts of a book: Table of contents (chapters, themes, topics...) Text (preface, development, conclusion...) Bibliography (sources and references) Index -Types of references: Direct: quotes ( ... ). Indirect: summary or paraphrase in your own words and indirect style. -Difference between stance markers (show personal opinion about the content: luckily ) and discourse markers (lead the semantic flow of the discourse: indeed ). -How to write a bibliography: title of the book in italics, chapter or article in ... . Cottrell, S. (1999) The study skills handbook. Basingstoke: Macmillan. -Definition of lexeme (abstract morphological entity: to be, plural, past), morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language); difference between bound morphemes (those morphemes that occur only if attached to others: un-, -ness) and free morphemes (those that occur on their own: the, an); definition of prefix (initial affix that doesn t indicate lexical category), infix (affix in the middle of a word) and suffix (ending bound morpheme that can indicate lexical category). -Difference between root (indivisible, central, meaningful part of a word), base (the morpheme to which affixes are attached) and bound root (roots that only occur when attached to other morphemes: circul-, simul-). -Difference between ortographic word (unit in the writing system), compound word (a single word consisting of other two), semantic word (word or group of words expressing a unified semantic concept). -Difference between lexical categories (the morphological classification of a word carrying meaning: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition and pronoun) and grammatical/functional categories (classification of words that determine the syntax of others: determiner, quantifier, auxiliary, coordinator and complementizer). Difference between open categories (those in which new words can be formed: lexical categories) and closed categories (those in which new words are not easily added: grammatical categories). -The three key features of a language: displacement (ability to mention entities not present here and now), creativity (ability to form new words by using rules) and duality (existence of units which have no meaning by themselves but they do when combined as an element: sounds forming a word...). -Abbreviations/Acronyms dealing with linguistic technologies: CALL: computer assisted language learning ICE: International Corpus of English MT: machine translation VLE: virtual leaning environment -Difference between socialect (language spoken by a social group), dialect (language spoken in a zone -smaller than a State-) and idiolect (language spoken by a particular person). Words you might be using (probably in exercise 2): Nouns: objective, purpose, theme, topic, claim, effect, influence, argument. Verbs: to argue, claim, point out, suggest, imply, state, show, demonstrate, indicate, carry out, perform, propose, put forth, analyse, observe. Adjectives: qualitative, quantitative. Some suggestions:
