nation. Multilingualism is common in, for example, some countries of West
Africa (e.g. Nigeria, Ghana), Malaysia, Singapore, and Israel.
see bilingualism, national languagemultimedian
1 the use of several different types of media for a single purpose, e.g. as in
a video that uses film, audio, sound effects, and graphic images.
2 a collection of computer controlled or computer mediated technologies
that enable people to access and use data in a variety of forms: text,
sound, and still and moving images.
multi-media laboratoryn
a room containing computers, video players and other equipment designed
to help students learn a foreign language, with or without a teacher.
In many institutions the multi-media lab has replaced the traditional
language laboratory.
multiple-choice itemn
a test itemin which the test taker is presented with a question along with
four or five possible answers from which one must be selected. Usually the
first part of a multiple-choice item will be a question or incomplete state-
ment. This is known as the stem. The different possible answers are known
as alternatives. The alternatives contain (usually) one correct answer and
several wrong answers or distractors.
For example:
Yesterday I ___ several interesting magazines.
(a) have bought (b) buying (c) was buying (d) bought
(d) is the correct response, while (a), (b) and (c) are distractors.
see also selected-response item
multiple correlationn
a coefficient of correlationamong three or more variables^2. For
example, if we wish to study the correlation between a dependent
variable(e.g. the level of students’ language proficiency) and several other
variables (i.e. the independent variables, e.g. the amount of homework the
students do each week, their knowledge of grammar, and their motivation),
the multiple correlation is the correlation between the dependent variable
and all the predictors (the independent variables).
multiple intelligencesn
also MI
multimedia