1. SECTION A
MODULE 1 – GATHERING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION
QUESTIONS 1 – 2
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
The principal at the Immaculate Conception High School has asked The Communication Studies students
to help her investigate the consumption and sale patterns among those who shop from vendors at the
school’s back gate. She wants to know what types of goods are preferred by those who shop there and
how much money is spent on average per day. The students propose to use a questionnaire to collect
data for the research.
1.
a. Identify the type of research in which the students are engaged.
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[1 mark]
b. List TWO characteristics of this type of research.
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[2 marks]
c. State TWO disadvantages and ONE advantage of the data collection method that they have
decided to use.
(1)____________________________________________________________________________
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(11)___________________________________________________________________________
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(111)__________________________________________________________________________
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[3 marks]
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2. d. Identify THREE ways of administering this data collection instrument.
1._____________________________________________________________________________
11. ___________________________________________________________________________
111.___________________________________________________________________________
[3 marks]
2. (a)List TWO other methods of data collection they could use in their investigation.
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[2 marks]
a. List TWO advantages that ONE instrument identified in (a) above would offer the researchers.
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[2 marks]
b. Explain the difference between a sample and a population.
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[2
marks]
Total 15 marks
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3. SECTION 2
MODULE 2 - LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY
Questions 3 – 6
Consider the following comment:
“People are so pleased with themselves when they feel they can speak English well – Eureka,
they have arrived! One young man even recently informed me that educated people owe it to
themselves not to promote dialect. I had to point out that, to paraphrase Louise Bennett,
English has been trying to become a language since the fourteenth century, yet ‘five hundred
years gone an de English got more dialect than we! I don’t think he understood the point I
was making though.”
3.
(a) What TWO common perceptions about language and dialect is the speaker addressing?
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[2 marks]
(b) What is a dialect?
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[2 marks]
(c) State TWO non-linguistic reasons the young man is against the promotion of the dialect.
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4. ______________________________________________________________________________
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(d) In the table below, indicate the register and dialectal variation most suitable for the
situations given.
Situations Registers Dialectal variation
A conversation between
friends
Swearing in of government
officials
Conversations between
strangers
[6 marks]
4.
“Mi bawl yeye-water wen mi memba seh
Mi neva did buy the lotto
Di numba dem play and mi jus a get ignorant
An mi can tell Sue cause she too chatti chatty”
(anonymous)
(a) List FOUR linguistic features in this song that are NOT features of Standard English.
I. _________________________________________________________________
II. _________________________________________________________________
III. _________________________________________________________________
IV. _________________________________________________________________
[4 marks]
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5. (b) LIST THREE characteristics of the song that might make it difficult for a non Creole speaking
visitor to understand it.
I. ______________________________________________________________________
II. ________________________________________________________________________
III. ________________________________________________________________________
[3 marks]
c. State TWO functions that language is fulfilling in the above situation.
i. __________________________________________________________________
ii. __________________________________________________________________
2 marks
5. Read the following dialogue and then answer all the questions which follow.
Visitor: I don’t understand a word that that man is speaking!
Host: The Caribbean has been blessed with a wide range of languages because of our history
of various cultures and linguistic diversity. You will soon begin to understand a little of our
language. You have to be prepared to study hard!
i. In one brief sentence explain how the Europeans and Africans came to contribute to
the Caribbean language situation
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2 marks
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6. ii. Name TWO African languages that have influenced the development of Caribbean
Creole languages today.
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2 marks
iii. What aspect of language could be giving the visitor some difficulty?
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1 mark
6. Many Caribbean countries are multilingual. Identify TWO languages spoken in each of the
following territories
I. Surinam
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II. Belize
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4 marks
Total 30 marks
Section 3
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7. MODULE 3 – SPEAKING AND WRITING
QUESTION 7- 10
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