Standard language

What causes decreasing returns to a variable input in the production process?

Study the role of English and the regional language in your town/city/state. Write a short report recording your findings about their use in education, business, administration, judiciary, media and social interaction.

Describe the relationship between marginal products of inputs and the marginal rate of technical substitution (MRTS). Why does MRTS decline as we move rightward and downward along a convex-shaped isoquant?

Given that the two factor of production are employed in a fixed proportion in the production process, what will be the shape of the corresponding isoquants and the value of the MRTS as more and more units of one factor of production is employed keeping constant the other factor of production?

With the help of a diagram, explain the conditions of a producer’s equilibrium in terms of marginal cost and marginal revenue approach.

With the help of a diagram, explain the conditions of a producer’s equilibrium in terms of marginal cost and marginal revenue approach.

In about 250 words, write a short essay on Language and Power with specific reference to English

Describe the main features of the Procedural Approach. How is it different from Chomsky’s approach?

There are four categories of cognitive style mentioned in Block 1 Unit 2. What are they? According to your experience in the classroom, what are the cognitive styles that best bring about language learning? You may take up case histories of any two students in answering this question.

What is the difference between animal and human communication? Discuss

Human beings have a special ability to learn languages. Give reasons to support your answer

With respect to the problem of consumer equilibrium, what is a corner solution? Explain using some examples where a corner solution arises as an optimal solution in the consumer utility maximisation problem

Consider a consumer who consumes two goods X and Y, priced at P_X and P_Y, respectively. Suppose price of good X falls to P_X’. Decompose price effect of this price increase into substitution and income effect using Slutsky method.

The notion of Interlanguage

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

Errors, mistakes and lapses

The demand and supply functions of a good are given by QD = 24 − 3P; QS = 4 + 2P where P, Q_D and Q_S denote price, quantity demanded and quantity supplied, respectively. Find the inverse demand and supply functions and the market equilibrium price and quantity.

Short term and long term memory

Age and second language acquisition