If you intend the meaning of "Dinner is on the table." to be "Please come and eat before it gets cold.", we are referring to the statement's ...
illocutionary force
perlocutionary force
locutionary force
communicative success
If a teacher responds with "That's interesting. What don't you like about zoos?", he/she is ...
using an elaborative technique.
taking account of affective factors.
giving constructive feedback.
focusing on the form following 'because'.
If a speaker refers to a waiter as 'sir', it's an indicator of poor ...
grammatical competence.
sociolinguistic competence.
discourse competence.
strategic competence.
According to Chomsky ...
performance refers to the knowledge of language rules and competence to its deployment
performance refers to language produced and competence to our knowledge of structure and lexis
In a communicative approach the sequencing of items on a syllabus is determined by ...
their structural complexity.
their frequency.
their communicative value for the learners.
their difficulty.
The fundamental reason for using authentic texts in CLT is because such texts are ...
contextualised and meaningful.
rich and meaningful.
rich and complex.
ungraded.
Tasks are widely used in CLT because ...
learning happens by doing and collaborative doing is even better.
we need to set a real-life context for all language.
they can only be done through collaboration.
learners don't feel threatened by them.
Making sure our learners know to whom they are using the language and what the power relationship is between them and the hearer will help improve their ...
grammatical competence.
sociolinguistic competence.
strategic competence.
functional competence.
Setting up tasks which demand the deployment of adjacency pairs is focused on ...
grammatical competence
sociolinguistic competence
discourse competence
strategic competence
Who said, "There are rules of use without which the rules of grammar would be useless."?