Past Paper ENG-418 (Multilingualism) 2017 | Semester Eight BS English (PU) | Eureka Study Aids

Section I 

1. Answer the following questions in detail. (30) 

(i) Learning a language and becoming a bilingual is also about learning and living in different socities and cultures. It is not just acquiring a new language, but also about understanding another culture and developing another identity. How? Discuss. 

(ii) How meaningful and systematic assessement and evaluation of second language (SL) learning is possible and what can be the teacher's role in designing assesement tools? 

Section 2

2. Answer the following questions in detail. (30) 

(i) To what extent the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age? 

(ii) What is the role of socio-cultural variables in second language acquisition (SLA)?

(iii) How the less powerful indigeneous language of Pakistan are becoming makers of lower status?