PGELT-2(PT/4/II) PGELT-2(PT/4/II) 2

POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Term End Examination December, 2013 & June 2014 SECTION B

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING 2. Answer any three of the following questions :

Paper-II : APPLIED LINGUISTICS 12 3 = 36
Time : Four Hours Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 80% a) Write an essay on the acquisition of
language by a child. 12
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the
answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, untidy b) What is Semiotics ? What is the
work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for each
relationship between semiotics and
question has been indicated in the margin.
culture ? 4+8

SECTION A c) Write in some detail a note on functional

1. Answer any two of the following questions : aspect of language. 12
18 2 = 36
d) Write notes on any two of the following :
a) Discuss Shannons three levels at which 6+6
the exchange of information takes place. 18
i) Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
b) What is Information ? Discuss the goal
ii) Denotation and Connotation
and scope of the information theory. 6 + 12
iii) Anti-grammar
c) Write an essay on Network-based language
teaching. 18 iv) Linguistic and Cultural Relativity

d) What are the important roles of signs in v) CALL.

language as a system of human
e) Define Sociolinguistics. How is it related to
communication ? 18
Sociology and Anthropology ? 4+8
OR
f) What is culture ? Describe the processes to
e) Write in detail on the Chomskian study cultural knowledge of a society
perspective of language learning. through its language or languages.

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f) Julia Kristeva
SECTION C
g) Thomas Pavel
3. Write notes on any four of the following:
7 4 = 28 h) Motilal
a) Paradigm & syntagm i) Noam Chomsky

b) Icons, indexes, symbols j) Dr. Prabhu and Notional-Functional

c) Signifier and signified syllabus.

d) Katha

e) Communication and language

f) Communicative competence

g) LAD

h) Semantics.

OR

Discuss the contributions of any four of the

following : 7 4 = 28

a) B. F. Skinner

b) Bloomfield

c) Dell Hymes

d) F. D. Saussure

e) C. S. Pierce

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