This is the ability to form utterances using elements of multiple languages in real time discourse, and the practice of doing so.
What is Code-switching
100
This involves direct instruction, independent language study and other efforts to motivate people to acquire or learn a particular language or variety.
What is Acquisition planning
100
This domain of applied linguistics is considered a 'wicked problem'
What is Language planning
100
There are 50+ of these in Canada
What are Aboriginal Languages
100
Globally this many languages will be lost by the end of this century.
What is 3000 languages
200
This refers to efforts to increase or decrease the prestige of a particular language or variety.
What is Status Planning
200
This is a construct used by language planners to gauge the long-term health of a language or variety.
What is Language vitality
200
These people are language decision-makers in a personal context
Who is everyone
200
Approximately 7 Million Canadians do this
What is speak another language at home.
200
As per the Language designations in Canada, these are the official languages.
What are English and French
300
This refers to language planning that attempts to modify in some way the code of a given variety, this is not to be confused with the digital collection of an authentic language
What is Corpus planning
300
This implies a focus on keeping a language vital within a given speech community or region. For example bilingual education programs to promote home language while gaining an additional language.
What is Language maintenance
300
The use of singlish in Singapore is an example of this
What is Covert prestige
300
These two examples have been some of the main reasons for the extinction and endangerment of so many aboriginal languages in Canada.
What are oppressive language and educational policies.
300
This Province in Canada is the only Bilingual Province.
What is New Brunswick.
400
These are symbolic systems for representing language in visual form (or tactile in the case of Braille).
What is orthographies
400
This is the name given to efforts to stop or slow down language loss and simultaneously increase the vitality of a language in a given community or region.
What is Language revitalization
400
Based on current estimates, the world loses this many languages a month
What is two
400
Elementary students can do this in regards to language planning
What is attending weekend classes.
400
All conscious efforts that aim at changing the linguistic behaviour of a speech community
What is Language Planning.
500
This refers to a language or variety that is used across communities and regions, it is completely relative and context dependent.
What is Language of wider communication
500
This is a term describing instances in which language pride goes underground due to social pressures.
What is covert prestige
500
The move to this is often signified through increased access to education, employment, housing and health care, services through which migrants may also become clients involved in or affected by language policy and planning.
What is Urban areas
500
These are the four phases of language planning.
What is Corpus, Status, Acquisition, and Attitude planning.
500
Political and social goals and legal or authoritative measures that aim at regulating language use and whether a language can be used or not, by whom, in what domain, with what support etc...