Adjacency Pairs Quiz

A person's speech can have a sense of naturalness and nativeness by using thousands of memorised ______ in appropriate situations

The use of routines can lead to an impression of ______ fluency

Many language teachers have a particular interest in teaching ______

Formulaic language is the heart and soul of ______-like language use

Acquiring conversational ______ can be a shortcut to the development of conversational proficiency

Knowing how to use conventionalised expressions is a great part of ______ competence

Using routine expressions is beneficial for ______

The development of ______ proficiency can be aided by acquiring conversational routines

Using thousands of memorized routines can contribute to a person's sense of ______ about their speech

Turn-taking in everyday talk is often regulated by certain norms to ensure that the talk is distributed on a turn-by-turn basis. This is closely related to automatic paired utterances called ______ pairs.

Adjacency pairs can be described as automatic sequences consisting of a first part and a second part, produced by different speakers. The most widely used adjacency pairs include thanking-response, request-acceptance, apology-minimisation, and ______-answer sequences.

In everyday conversation, greeting and leave-taking situations often recur and speakers make use of similar and sometimes identical expressions, which have proved to be functionally appropriate. These expressions can be described as ______ language.

Formulaic language may contain grammatical units, fixed semantic units, and ______, situation-bound expressions.

Formulaic multi-word chunks are stored and recalled as ______ rather than the words which they are composed of.

A significant percentage of conversational language is highly ______ into pre-fabricated utterances.

Collocations, fixed expressions, lexical metaphors, idioms and situation-bound utterances can all be considered as examples of ______ language.

Speakers often resort to certain norms to make sure that the talk is distributed on a -by- basis.

Automatic sequences consisting of a first part and a second part, produced by different speakers, are called adjacency pairs.

Formulaic language can contain only fixed semantic units.

Formulaic language includes idioms and situation-bound utterances.

Conversational language is rarely routinised into pre-fabricated utterances.

Using formulaic language can contribute to a speaker's sense of fluency.

Using thousands of memorized routines is detrimental to a person's sense of naturalness and nativeness.

Formulaic language is not useful for language learners.

Formulaic multi-word chunks are stored and recalled as individual words.

Native speakers have a limited repertoire of memorised routines in their speech.

Using routine expressions can only lead to an impression of written fluency.

Conversational proficiency can only be developed through extensive grammar study.

Acquiring conversational routines is not beneficial for language learners.

Formulaic language is not an important aspect of native-like language use.

Fixed expressions and idioms cannot be considered as examples of formulaic language.

Turn-taking in everyday talk is not regulated by certain norms.

Functionally appropriate expressions in greeting and leave-taking situations are not considered formulaic language.

Knowing how to use conventionalised expressions is not a significant part of communicative competence.

What are adjacency pairs in conversation?

Which of the following is not an example of formulaic language?

What is the function of formulaic language in conversation?

What is the difference between grammatical units and pragmatic expressions in formulaic language?

What is the advantage of using formulaic language in conversation?

What is the difference between adjacency pairs and minimal pairs?

What is the advantage of using formulaic multi-word chunks in conversation?

What is the percentage of conversational language that is highly routinised into pre-fabricated utterances?

What is the benefit of using routines in language learning?

What is the importance of formulaic language in native-like language use?

What is the relationship between routine expressions and oral fluency?

What is the role of conventionalised expressions in communicative competence?

What is the benefit of acquiring conversational routines?

What is the impact of using routine expressions in appropriate situations?

What is the relationship between formulaic language and idioms?

What is the impact of using routine expressions on written fluency?

What is the relationship between conversational proficiency and formulaic language?