Quiz 1 – MOOC: Multilingual Education

You have come to the end of Week 1. Do the quiz and see what you have learnt in this week and how well you understood the main concepts. There are 6 multiple choice questions in this quiz, and it is automatically checked, so you will see the result as soon as you complete it. You can retake the quiz as many times as you wish.

Good luck!

Which situation below best reflects plurilingualism?

a primary school in Italy offers foreign language programmes in German, French, and English.

a medical doctor from Germany, practicing in the Slovene-Italian bilingual region in Slovenia, speaks and uses the following languages (not all fluently): German, Slovenian, Italian, English, Spanish, Croatian.

a production company in Estonia is active in several foreign markets which means they have to provide product information in the respective languages: Russian, German, Finnish, Swedish, and English.

Question 1 of 6

Developing plurilingual competence is aimed at...

mastering a foreign language as close as possible to the level of a native speaker of that language.

being able to speak at least two foreign languages above the basic level.

acquiring a variety of competences which enable you to communicate in different languages.

Question 2 of 6

Your family is Chinese but you live in Slovenia. You go to primary school. You have a few Chinese friends and go to the local Chinese restaurant but you also have Slovene friends and a few Albanian and Bosnian friends. Your family is not very fluent in Slovene but they try.

The situation above comes from …

a monocultural society.

a pluricultural society.

a multicultural society.

Question 3 of 6

Tamir comes from a traditional Muslim family where they observe their culture and traditions. At home, he also observes the tradition but when he is with his friends, he doesn’t really talk about his family’s traditions and acts as all his other friends.

Tamir’s pluriculturality is expressed...

simultaneously.

by means of alternation.

by means of hybridity.

Question 4 of 6

In the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, one of the multilingual empires in European history, German was...

the dominant official language.

the only language of instruction at schools.

the lingua franca of legal communication.

Question 5 of 6

The term lingua franca originally meant...

Latin, the common language of the Roman empire.

the language of Franks.

French, the language of diplomacy and literature from the 17^th century

Question 6 of 6