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Aen:Second Language Acquisition Question Paper

Aen:Second Language Acquisition 

Course:Bachelor Of Arts

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2017



KENYATTA UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2016/2017
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHERLOR OF ARTS
AEN:SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

DATE:THURSDAY 11TH MAY 2017 TIME:2.00PM-4.00PM

INSTRUCTIONS:
ANSWER QUESTION ONE AND ANY OTHER TWO

1.a)Using examples, discuss any four learning strategies that can be employed by second language learners.(6marks)
b)Giving examples, distinguish between intra-lingual and interlingual errors.(7marks)
c)How did Krashen differentiete between "learning" and "acquisition"?Give examples.(7marks)

2. summarise the theory of behaviorism using the motions of habits and errors.(20marks)

3.Define and exemplify the following concepts:
i)Fossilization (5marks)
ii)creative construction hypothesis (5marks)
iv)error explanation (5maarks)

4.a)Explain the weak and strong forms of Contrastive analysis hypotyhesis (10maarks)
b)descrribe any two critisms leved against the hypothesis in (a) (10maarks)
5. Using the notion of distance ,explain Schumann;S Acculturation theory. (20marks)




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