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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
OCT/NOV 2021
ENG1502
Foundations in Applied English Language Studies
100 Marks
Duration 48 Hours
18 – 20 October 2021
This paper consists of 9 pages.
Instructions:
The examination paper consists of Three sections and Six qu...
ENG1502
Foundations in Applied English Language Studies
100 Marks
Duration 48 Hours
18 – 20 October 2021
This paper consists of 9 pages.
Instructions:
The examination paper consists of Three sections and Six questions. You must answer
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,SECTION A
Question 1
Language as a semiotic system “… is thought of as a system where the individual
elements – signs – take their overall meaning from how they are combined with other
elements” (Carter & Goddard, 2016, p. 45). Bearing this quotation in mind, study TEXT
A before you answer the questions that follow.
You may also refer to Table 1 (Aspects of language) which is attached but can also be
found on page 8 of Tutorial Letter 501.
TEXT A
What will 2021 bring? Never before have we started a new year with so many
questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there)?
A friend gave my 10-year-old grandson a little round grey object as a birthday
present recently, and I just could not figure out what it was, or why he was so excited
about it than the new swimming trunk decorated with huge and colourful toucans
that I gave him.
It turned out to be a mini smart speaker, or more precisely, an Artificial
intelligence voice-controlled assistant called a Google Home Speaker, apparently
designed to control the home by voice command, leaving your hands free to do other
things. After a swift little DIY procedure requiring a small screwdriver, he connected
another small device between the speaker and his bedside lamp . . .
After my bewildered questions . . . , he informed me that this little critter can
communicate with Google and is activated by him saying, “Hey Google”. He can
then ask Google whatever he wants to know.
Source: Celliers, A. (2021). The Gardener. (p.96)
1.1 The words in the sub-title of TEXT A: Never before have we started a new year with
so many questions, to which there are so little answers (or are there?) could be
arranged in a different way while maintaining the same meaning of the sentence.
Rearrange the order of the words in this sub-title without changing the meaning. The
re-arranged sentence must be grammatically correct.
(2 marks)
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, 1.2 Which language aspect has helped you to re-arrange the words in 1.1?
(1 mark)
1.3. In your own words, explain the language aspect you used in 1.1?
(2 marks)
1.4 Construct two different sentences using the same words from the original sentence.
The words in the new sentences must be arranged differently from the original
sentence. The sentences must be grammatically correct.
(4 marks)
1.5 Refer to TEXT A. The bolded words, each consist of two words conjoined into one.
(i) Screwdriver, (ii) lampside
1.5.1 Identify the two words that make up each word in (i) and (ii). (4 marks)
1.5.2 Using Table 1 explain the language aspect that assisted you to answer 1.5.1.
(2 marks)
TABLE 1
Language Meaning
concept
Phonetics The study of speech sounds.
Phonology The study of the sound patterning system.
Lexis The study of the actual words a writer or speaker chooses to use.
(vocabulary)
Morphology The study of how words are formed.
Syntax The study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules that
govern the formations.
Orthography Writing systems
Semantics The study of meaning and how meaning is made and understood.
Pragmatics The study of the use of language in communication – i.e. sentences as
used in contexts and situations.
Discourse The study of how language is organized beyond the sentence, i.e. in
larger texts.
[15 Marks]
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