Language and Culture
The United States borrowed words and phrases from what cultures
What is many world cultures?
_____ develop during a prolonged period in which people are separated by geographic barriers, such as mountains and rivers, or by social barriers, such as social-class differences.
What is Dialects?
Learning two or more languages in the first 3 years of birth
What is Simultaneous Bilingualism?
Number of stages of development for students with English as their second language
What is 4 stages?
This theory emphasizes the notion that humans gain knowledge through experience and exposure to language forms.
What are nurture inspired theories?
The speech adults use when communicating with young language learners
What is infant-directed speech?
Dialects are regional or social varieties of language that differ from one another in terms of their pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, but this is a variety of languages that differ solely in pronunciation
What is an Accent?
When someone is established in their first language but is learning a second language
Imitating other people, using single words to label items and use simple phrases that they memorize
What is Telegraphic and Formulaic Use?
The critical period for language acquisition
What is between birth and puberty?
It can range from highly child centered to highly situational centered
What is communicative accommodation?
The migration of persons from one dialect region to another can affect the maintenance of a dialect in one of two ways expanding transportation and communication networks
What is Population movement?
The stages of development for students with English as a second language
What is home language stage, non verbal stage, telegraphic and formulaic use and Language productivity?
The stage "barely talking, but using gestures such as pointing to communicate" fall under when it comes to development stages.
What is Non-Verbal period?
With intrinsic motivation, the motivation stems from____
What is within the learner?
The connection between language and culture is often evident in
What is television shows, interactions with other individuals, or those who speak the same language?
"Why you be acting like that?"
"Anita, drive my sister car."
Are examples of...
What is African American Vernacular English(AAVE)?
What is Code Switching?
This hypothesis states that “filters” exist that may prevent L2 learners from processing input and thus prevent acquisition
What is the Affective Filter Hypothesis?
What are the syntactic characteristics of IDS
What is shorter MLU, fewer subordinate clauses, or more content words fewer function words?
Pidgins typically use the ____ of the more dominant of the ____ _____.
What is lexicon and two languages?
True or False.
People code switch to emphasize the importance of what they are saying
Interactionist theories include characteristics of these two theories
What are nature and nurture inspired theories?