Terminology
Vocabulary
Words
Lexicon
Phraseology
100
This bilingual understands a second language but doesn't produce the language verbally.
What is a passive bilingual?
100
This word describes a person with one well developed language and another that is still developing.
What is an incipient bilingual?
100
This is the context in which the majority language is intended to replace a minority language.
What is subtractive bilingualism?
100
This term would include listening and reading skills only.
What are receptive skills?
100
This describes a speaker's ability to use language correctly in appropriate social contexts.
What is sociolinguistic competence?
200
The ability to understand or read but not to speak a second language.
What is receptive ability?
200
This word describes second language that is developing in the individual.
What is ascendant bilingualism?
200
This is the context in which the new and dominant language is acquired with no loss to one's first language.
What is additive bilingualism?
200
This term would include speaking and writing skills only.
What are productive skills?
200
This term describes a speaker's ability to use language for specific functions.
What is illocutionary competence?
300
These contexts are where a bilingual uses his or her languages.
What are domains?
300
This phenomenon occurs when one language decreases in a bilingual.
What is recessive bilingualism?
300
According to Cummings, this term might describe the register, form and function of language learned and used by students on the school's playground.
What is BICS or Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills?
300
This term applies to two monolinguals in one person.
What is a fractional view of bilingualism?
300
This term describes a speaker who plans, executes and assesses his communicative knowledge and tactics.
What is strategic competence?
400
This term applies to the language acquisition of a child who learns two languages from birth.
What is simultaneous bilingualism?
400
This terms describes the phenomenon when one of a bilingual's two languages is lost.
What is language attrition (or loss)?
400
This word describes an individual who becomes bilingual entirely by choice.
What is an elective bilingual?
400
This is a view of bilingualism that suggests that bilinguals have a unique linguistic profile.
What is a holistic view?
400
This individual is equally fluent in two languages across a variety of contexts.
What is a balanced bilingual?
500
This term applies to a child who learns one language first, then another at or just after age three.
What is consecutive (sequential) bilingualism?
500
This terms is applied to situations where a new culture is "learned" while a new language is also learned.
What is acculturation?
500
This word describes an individual who has no choice but to be bilingual.
What is a circumstantial bilingual?
500
According to many monolinguals, these speakers are deficient in both (all) languages they speak.
What is semilingualism?
500
Bilinguals exhibit this language strategy when alternating or mixing languages within a single conversation.
What is codeswitching?
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