Factual Questions

What did Vertovec observe while studying modern superdiverse societies?

· (A) Bounded systems of specific linguistic features in separate languages.

· (B) Languages are separate sets of features which can be distinguished from each other and counted.

· (C) People use features associated with languages of which they know very little.

What terms have been used for the practices through which speakers employ features associated with different languages?

What ideological norms of language use is linguistic behavior often regimented by?

What does the term polylingualism refer to?

Where in the passage does the author first discuss "pluricultural" competence?

Where in the passage does the author specifically stress that multilingualism serves contradicting interests?

In what paragraph does the author first mention the ideology of diversity?

Scanning questions

Scanning questions are usually easy to answer. Use the same techniques for scanning given about detail questions. For each question, locate that part of the passage in which the answer will probably be found, and write it out. Don't worry about answering the question itself, only about finding the information. Do these scanning questions as fast as you can.

Sample Questions

· Is there another concept of the relationship between people and languages.?

· What is the term for using in real life features associated with different languages?

· What has plurilingualism become associated with?

Negative questions

Negative questions often take more time to answer than other questions. Therefore, you may want to guess and come back to these questions if you have time. Scan the passage to find the answers that ARE correct or ARE mentioned in the passage. Sometimes the three distractors NOT, EXCEPT, or LEAST are clustered in one or two sentences; sometimes they are scattered throughout the passage. The correct answer, of course, is the one that does not appear.

Sample Questions

According to the passage, only one of the following is true: The development of plurilingualism is interpreted in different ways. (A) It may be interpreted as one of the terminological consequences of the European Union's enhanced emphasis on multilingual education. (B) Most evident paradigmatic changes at various levels of multilingual education. (C) The principle of equality of languages. Which choice is true?

Unit 2-5. LANGUAGES BEYOND BOUNDARIES

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