1. Which of the following isn’t a factor that may influence SLA?

A. age

B. motivation

C. personality

D. sex

2. In general, language acquisition refers to children’s development of their ________ language of the community in which a child has been brought up.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. foreign

3. ________ is defined as a conscious process of accumulating knowledge of a second language usually obtained in school setting.

A. Acquisition

B. Learning

C. Studying

D. Acquirement

4. ________ transfer is a process that is more commonly known as interference.

A. Intentional

B. Positive

C. Negative

D. Interrogative

5. ________ was believed to be the major source of difficulties experienced and errors made by L2 learners.

A. Transfer

B. Positive transfer

C. Negative transfer

D. Overgeneralization

6. ________ approach shows that there are striking similarities in the ways in which different L2 learners acquire a new language.

A. Transfer

B. Interference

C. Contrastive Analysis

D. Error Analysis

7. During the process of SLA, a learner constructs a series of internal representations that comprises the learner’s interim knowledge of the target language, this is ________.

A. interlanguage

B. first language

C. second language

D. foreign language

8. The optimum age for SLA is ________.

A. childhood

B. early teens

C. teens

D. adulthood

参考答案：D A B C C D A A

9. ________ deals with how language is acquired, understood, and produced.

A. Sociolinguistics

B. Psycholinguistics

C. Neurolinguistics

D. Anthropological linguistics

10. The left hemisphere of human brain is responsible for the functions of ________.

A. language and speech

B. calculation

C. analytic reasoning and associative thought

D. all of the above

11. ________ refers to the localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of the brain.

A. Language lateralization

B. Brain lateralization

C. Right ear advantage

D. None of the above

12. Linguistic ________ is the brain’s neurological specialization for language.

A. determinism

B. relativism

C. competence

D. lateralization

13. The ________ age for the acquisition of the first language coincides with the period of brain lateralization.

A. young

B. old

C. critical

D. flexible

参考答案：B D B D C