1. According to the article, Canada’s language is experiencing
    a) word nominalisation.b) regional disparity.c) evolutionary adaptation.d) phonetic revolution.

2. The suspected effect of this change among Canadians is 
      a) reluctant.b) ubiquitous.c) sequestered.d) marginalized.

3. The language shift has been blamed on
     a) people’s determined pronunciation.b) mass media accent reduction feats.c) lack of English accent postulations.d) distorted pop culture elocution.

4. The accent shift has been 
     a) something that is offensive to many people.b) something that is happening in plain sight, but unnoticed.c) something that is happening too slowly to be noticed.d) something that many people are starting to notice.

5. De Decker argues that the problem has perpetuated because of
     a) younger adoption to trendy ways of speaking.b) Canadian language broadmindedness.c) mass media slang circulation.d) Canadian intolerable acceptance of all accents.

While I’m sure that this 6 a) intonation discrepancyb) vocabulary variationc) acoustic stipulationd) pronunciation dictation is not a dire situation, I think it truly does pose a serious issue for students who are learning English as a second language. For me, the issue does arise from Canadian acceptance of accent due to its 7 a) language impositionb) cultural relationshipc) multicultural heritaged) mediocre language principals , as De Decker points out. However, even more so, historically there weren’t so many issues with pronunciation primarily because there wasn’t such a widespread interest in 8 a) language classesb) media controlc) use of accentd) mainstream society  , which undoubtedly has 9 a) alleviatedb) perpetuatedc) divertedd) perplexed  the problem. Perhaps the best solution would be to stress the importance of maintaining the English language in its essential Canadian form by having more pronunciation classes when teaching English, and 10 a) public schools.b) mass media centres.c) cultural centers.d) government and social offices. , by stressing it more frequently in public schools.

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