Diversity in the US & Identity
Language Shift
Language Minority Education
Language Attitudes
Sign language and Deaf Culture
100
Habitual and not intentional social activity; the series of actions that make up our daily lives.
What is practice?
100
1. Spanish 2. Chinese 3. French 4. German 5. Tagalog
What are the most popular languages other than English used at home in the US?
100
The students who speak a language other than English at home.
Who are language minority students?
100
The study about people's perceptions and attitudes toward a certain language or languages.
What is Folk Linguistics?
100
A kind of sign language that emerges and is used in communities of Deaf people for intra-group communication.
What is a natural sign language?
200
Highly deliberate and self-aware social display.
What is performance?
200
Two varieties of a language exist side by side throughout the community and each has a definite function to play.
What is diglossia?
200
This can be created by language shock and culture shock. It may become greater if a language learner does not have integrative or intrinsic motivation to learn the target language.
What is the psychological distance?
200
The technique that uses recorded voices of people speaking first in one dialect or language and then in another.
What is the Matched Guise Technique (MGT)?
200
This includes both deaf and hearing people who follow the behavioral rules and consider themselves and are considered by others to be a member of this group. ASL knowledge is crucial.
What is Deaf culture?
300
The sense and the expression of collective, intergenerational cultural continuity. It links to collectivities sharing the gifts and responsibilities, rights and obligations.
What is ethnicity?
300
This generation of immigrant families usually become balanced bilingual or English-dominant bilingual.
What is the second generation?
300
Time for men and child-care or transportation for women.
What are the possible obstacles for immigrant population to participate in English language programs?
300
"Standard" and "Friendly" factors.
What are the factor groups that Denis Preston found from his language attitude research in Michigan?
300
The codes for a spoken language. It uses American Sign Language signs and also invented new signs to represent parts of English not found in ASL.
What is the Signing Exact English (SEE)?
400
Speaker's ability to use language strategically to achieve goals in spite of the constraints of cultural ideologies.
What is agency?
400
The fact that English provides more political, social and economic incentives and the society's anti-multilingualism attitudes.
What are the possible causes for language shift in the US?
400
It is determined by the gap between language learners' social class and the target-language-speaking group's social class.
What is the social distance?
400
His research showed that when a speaker used [r] inconsistently, the judges rated the speaker lower on the occupational suitability scale than another speaker who used [r] consistently.
Who is William Labov?
400
The approach that promotes the use of the spoken language as the medium of instruction for deaf children, to the exclusion of signing.
What is the oralist approach?
500
1. California 2. New Mexico 3. Texas 4. New York 5. Hawai'i
What are the states with the highest percentage of population speaking languages other than English at home?
500
Modern Standard Arabic and other local varieties of Arabic
What is an example of diglossic situation?
500
Two different language knowledge that Cummins (1981) explained after analyzing Canadian data. He argued that communicative competence is not enough for students to perform well at school.
What are Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
500
This explains that the speakers of majority varieties of language consider their variety as "standard", while the speakers of minority varieties identify their variety as "friendly." It is always either standard or friendly, not both.
What is the concept of symbolic linguistic capital?
500
This teaching method encourages teachers to use any means available to communicate with deaf children - signing, fingerspelling, talking.
What is the total communication?
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