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Linguistics...

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All of the answers are correct

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involves analysing language form, language meaning, and language in context

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is the scientific study of language

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deals with the social, cultural, historical and political factors that influence language

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Psycholinguistics  is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language

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Sociolinguistics is the branch of linguistics concerned with using linguistic theory to address real-world problems

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Applied linguistics is that branch of linguistics that is most concerned with developing models of linguistic knowledge

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Theoretical linguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society

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Descriptive linguistics refers to the work of analysing and describing how language is spoken

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Competencial linguistic makes use of the concept of a generative grammar

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Ecolinguistics is the study of language change

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Generative linguistics propose that language is an emergent property of basic, general-purpose cognitive processes

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As regards language acquisition and language learning...

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Acquisition occurs passively and unconsciously through implicit learning

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Language learning requires implicit instruction in writing and reading additional languages

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Language learning is the process whereby children acquire their first languages

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Language acquisition is the process whereby humans past the critical period learn second languages

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Children develop their native tongue through...

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Imitation, innateness, cognition theory and input theory

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Functionalism, neurolinguistics and description

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Social, psychological and pedagogic processes

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Computational, cognitive and generative processes

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Select the correct information about a theory for FL acquisition

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The major principle of the behaviourist theory rests on the analyses of human behaviour in observable stimulus-response interaction and the association between them

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Krashen's theory regards learning as an individual process of construction of knowledge from one’s experiences.

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Constructivism believes that language learning is a process which involves active mental processes, and not only the forming of habits.

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Cognitivism defends that external factors act as a filter to impede acquisition

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