Internalise second language rules and vocabulary which are then used to communicate in the language. Which term fits?

• A. Cognitive strategies
• B. Acquire
• C. Bottom-up processing
• D. Antonym

Answer: (B)

Internalising second language rules and vocabulary so you can use them to communicate describes acquiring the language. To acquire means to gain the ability to understand and produce the language fluently through internalized knowledge of its rules and lexicon. This is about the process of getting and using language, not just strategies, processing methods, or unrelated word relations. Cognitive strategies are about how you learn or recall information, bottom-up processing is a way of decoding language from the smallest units upward, and an antonym is simply a word with the opposite meaning. The best fit for this description is acquire.