Bonvillian
Advocacy
Terms
The Latehomecomer
Somali
100
The act throughout conversation while speakers talk, listeners have supportive work to do in order to signal their interest, or active listenership. Listener responses include such words as "yeah", "right", "uh-huh", and "hmm". It has great interactional import by indicating one's attention to and ratification of the speaker's talk and the listener’s understanding.
What is turn taking?
100
They come as economic migrants, to support families back home or to escape intolerable situations in their home country.
Why do undocumented immigrants come to America?
100
The practice of moving back and forth between two languages or between two dialects or registers of the same language. Sometimes the other language has a better word or phrase to express a particular idea.
What is code-switching?
100
The book written by Kao Kalia Yang that tells what it was like to be Hmong during the Vietmnam War and now what it's like to be Hmong in America.
What is The Latehomecomer?
100
A group of people who come from Somalia, the country located on the horn of Africa.
Who are Somalis?
200
He includes six 1) participants 2) code used by interlocutors 3) channel (ex. speaking, writing, non-verbal signals) 4) setting or context 5) form or genre 6) topics and attitudes. Used to analyze speach behavior in order to discover culturally relevent features of variation.
What are Dell Hymes components of communication?
200
It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving congnitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. It's knowing two languages forcing the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.
What is bilingualism?
200
Components of communication: __________, participants, topics, and goals.
What is the setting?
200
A place that was dirty. "... a place where kids kept secrets and adults stayed inside themselves." A place where Kao Kalia Yang "... fell from the clouds into her [grandmother's] hands." A place where "Rations came three times a week and consisted of dried fish, which caused little children to get stomach cramps, and old broken grains of rice..."
What is the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp?
200
The ‘capital’ of the American Somali community. Over 60,000 Somalis, over half of those in the United States, live in this state. A state with the reputation of niceness and hospitality. The land of 10,000 lakes.
What is Minnesota?
300
Continually interpreting and evaluating a co-participant’s speech in order to ascertain not only its meaning but also its intention.
What is conversational inference?
300
Upon their arrival in the United States, they were given legal residency status and permission to work.
Who are refugees?
300
Demonstrated by the fact that children respond appropriately to commands and suggestions made by others. Being able to comply with directives given in more complex structures than they themselves are able to produce.
What is passive language?
300
It was "...a country without Rainbow or Cub Foods." Today, it is a country in transition and has set a goal of graduating from Least Developed Country status by 2020. Mountain tribes of Hmong-Yao, and Tibeto-Burman (Kor and Phounoy) as well as Tai ethno-linguistic heritage are found in the northern parts of this country. It is a communist state. For nearly a decade, this country was subjected to extremely heavy bombing as the U.S. sought to interdict the portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that passed through its eastern edge.
What is Laos?
300
The sun - natural cycles Flexible multi-dimensional time Present orientation People live for today People focused Schedule is a goal
What is 'warm culture' climate?
400
Incorporation of linguistic material from a second language into a base or matrix language. Morphological markers and/or grammatical rules of the matrix language are applied to the incorporated material.
What is code mixing?
400
Be non-judgmental. Understand there may be stress at home. Believe in their students. Accept that accademics may not be first priority. Meet students where they are as much as possible.
How can teachers aid undocumented students in the classroom?
400
A language used by nonnative speakers when interacting with speakers of different codes. It enables members of diverse ethnic and linguistic groups to communicate with one another.
What is Lingua franca?
400
They are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. As result of refugee movements in the wake of the Indochina Wars (1946–1975), in particular in Laos, the largest of this groups community to settle outside Asia went to the United States where approximately 100,000 individuals had already arrived by 1990. California became home to half this group, while the remainder went to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Death is often considered the most important time for practicing rituals in this culture's community because without practicing the necessary rituals the soul will roam for eternity.
Who are Hmong?
400
This city is the largest city, seaport and the national capital of Somalia, located just north of the Equator on Somalia's coast at the Indian Ocean. It is where most of the political unrest is taking place in Somalia.
What is Mogadishu?
500
A lesson planning model that has proven to be effective for teachers to address the academic needs of the ELL learners.
What is SIOP?
500
The ability to function according to cultural models for communicative behavior.
What is communicative competence?
500
It is living at the McDonough townhouses. It is being on the streets where sometimes people yell at you to go home. It is trying to be invisible. It is "...having only $150 to spend on gas for the car, on Dial soap and Pert Puls shampoo, on extra light bulbs and vacuum bags for the ole Eureka we received from a church basement, on Vaseline lotion and powder detergent so my mother could wash her clothes in the bathtub." It is learning to speak English, write English and read English. It is learning new customs while trying to hang on you your old ones. It is having the dream to go to the University, and having the opportunity to accomplish that dream. It is being a long distance from other members of your family. It is playing "... I am Vietnamese, and I am chasing you with red bullets!.... I am Vietnamese. 'Blahbleeblablo', I am speaking Vietnamese at you!" "... it was sometimes sad..."
What is it to be Hmong in America?
500
The main religious affiliation in Somalia. Somali culture and this religion are inseparable; they are as one. The five pillars of faith this religion relies on: 1. Faith and belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophet hood of Muhammad. 2. Five daily prayers. 3.Giving charity to the needy. 4.Self-purification through fasting. 5.Pilgrimage to Makkah(Mecca) at least once in your lifetime….if you are able…( cost $4k-5k) usually a two-week commitment.
What is Sunni Muslim?
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