Bilingualism
Language in Mind
Sink or Swim or Succeed
Speak Up!
About the People
100

In this type of bilingualism, the student's home language is removed as their school language is learned.

Subtractive Bilingualism

100

This is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Ideology

100

This refers to the goals of the lesson that are specifically designed to promote students language development through all four language domains: reading, writing, speaking, listening.

Language Objectives

100

This refers to a language variety in which sounds, grammar, and vocabulary identify speakers according to region or social class.

Dialect

100

These people form a subgroup of emergent bilinguals who have been classified as English learners for 6 or more years.

Long-term English Learner

200

In this bilingual concept, both languages bolster each other in the student’s acquisition of language and knowledge.

Linguistic Interdependence

200

This idea values the importance on fostering independence and individual achievement as well as individual thinking and self-expression.

Individualism

200

This type of teaching connects different areas of study by cutting across subject-matter lines and emphasizing unifying concepts.

Integrated Instruction

200

This refers to the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Vernacular

200

This is an emergent term over the past decade that is used for a gender-neutral alternative to Latino or Latina.

Latinx

300

In this type of bilingual, or multilingual concept, bilingual or multilingual pedagogy in which one language is used as input and another as output, legitimizing bilingual or multilingual fluid language practices.

Translanguaging

300

This is the ability to view language as a process and consider it structurally.

Metalinguistic Awareness

300

This refers to the set of teaching materials and lesson plans that is rich with content; well-designed, clearly structured and appropriately paced that is enabled through active engagement and opportunities to practice. This could go beyond students' comprehensibility within a reasonable scope.

Challenging Curriculum

300

This refers to a word related in form, meaning, and etymology to a word in another language.

Cognate

300

He or she is an expert in the relations between psychological aspects and linguistic behaviors.

Psycholinguist

400

This type of bilingualism refers to the development of different language practices to varying degrees in order to interact with increasingly multilingual communities and bilinguals along all points of the bilingual continuum. 

Dynamic Bilingualism

400

This idea is embodied as the systematic efforts to stop a linguistic or ethnic group from speaking, learning, maintaining their native or home language.

Language Restrictionism

400

This type of teaching approach highlights the interactions between educators and students that attempt to foster collaborative relations of power in the classroom

Transformative Pedagogy

400

This is the system of rules for manipulating sounds in a language.

Phonology

400

These are the people who participate in a discussion or conversation, sometimes as a go-between.

Interlocutor

500

This refers to a minority language learnt by its speakers at home as children, but it is never fully developed because of insufficient input from the social environment.

Heritage Language

500

This refers to the method and practices of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

Pedagogy

500

This type of program focuses on intensive instruction in the features of English (lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax).

High-intensity Language Program

500

This is used to provide an alternative focus for criticism, exposes problems in conventional analyses and presents a new basis for questioning.

Educational Discourse

500

This instrument unfairly penalizes a group of students because of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion or other defining characteristics.

Assessment Bias

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