Année 1998:Choose either (a) or (b):
a) Discuss the extent to which "Grammar" can be viewed as order-seeking and / or order-imposing.

b) Linguistics provides us with a large part of the theoretical basis of language teaching. Can
we then assume that to be a good teacher one has to have a thorough training in linguistics

1999: select one question only. Time allowed 3 hours.
1-
Assess the different meanings of the concept of "rule" from the
perspective of traditional linguistics and modern linguistics.
2-
"Structural approaches to foreign language learning produce structurally
competent but communicatively incompetent learners". Discuss fully.

2000: Choose either (a) or (b):
a)
"At an abstract level, beneath the surface variation, languages are
remarkably similar in form and function to certain universal principles"
(Akmajian et al 1984:7)
Discuss.

b) comment on this statement made by J Lyons (1965):
"It
is certainly the case that many of the attitudes and ideas of
linguistics today seem to result from a synthesis of certain traditional
ideas, with ideas directly opposed to them, their antithesis expressed
by linguists of a previous generation"

Année 2002:The concept of
'native speaker' is central in linguistics, but it often leads to a
number of difficulties when one tries to define it.
Consider some aspects that might be critical to the definition of this concept