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Attitudes to language and communication
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40 CXC CAPE Communication Studies questions on Attitudes to language and communication, each with instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme.

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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

What is a language attitude?

  1. An evaluative response to a language variety or to its speakers
  2. A speaker's level of fluency in a second language
  3. The grammatical rule a speaker follows
  4. The variety a speaker uses most often
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✓ Answer: A — An evaluative response to a language variety or to its speakers
Award 1 mark. Attitudes are judgements about people made on the evidence of how they speak. They are social rather than linguistic in origin.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

What is linguistic insecurity?

  1. A community's fear that its language will disappear
  2. A speaker's anxiety that their own variety is inferior
  3. Difficulty in learning a second language
  4. Uncertainty about the meaning of an unfamiliar word
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✓ Answer: B — A speaker's anxiety that their own variety is inferior
Award 1 mark. It is measurable in how often speakers of stigmatised varieties describe their own speech as bad. Its usual effect in a classroom is withdrawal and silence.
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Are the Attitudes to language and communication questions aligned to the official CXC CAPE Communication Studies syllabus?
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How is Attitudes to language and communication typically tested on CXC CAPE Communication Studies papers?
Attitudes to language and communication appears across multiple question types on real CXC CAPE Communication Studies papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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