Linguistic Varieties
What does the acronym SAE stand for?
What does BEV or AAVE stand for?
What is Standard American English
Black English Vernacular
African American Vernacular English
What is a typical response to what's up from a beginning ESL student?
Why would this question be interesting and valuable to learn for an ESL student? linguistic and social reasons?
Fine, I'm fine.
Students like to learn idiomatic, slang
Fit in with peers, belonging and inclusion-> community
This type of linguist views language as always evolving, defining it by how it is used by how it is used by people and what they do with it.....
and its tension?? (not opposite)
What is a descriptivist? Prescriptivist
The situation in nations in which two or more languages are spoken and recognized as official or national languages
What is Bilingualism, Multilingualism?
Identify two color words AND two words that women might use, but men might not
some examples: mauve, taupe, bicycle yellow, teal, violet etc
a throw, feel, journal (as a verb), gauche, adorable, etc
Standards we live by and they often affect our language and how we talk as well
or
unspoken rules, sometimes unconscious (slurping soup in Japan; raising hand to speak in class)
What is a cultural norm?
List 2 strategies we can teach students for making requests:
Giving a reason
Apologizing
Softeners
Minimizers
Offers to help
Modals
The simplification of languages and the reduction in the number of domains of use.
Involves the linguistic expansion in the lexicon and grammar of existing pidgins
What is Pidginization?
What is Creolization?
According to Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, what three names are also used to mean mixes?
Code-switches, code-mixes, and blends
(also code-meshing, translingualism) ]
Mix it up baby!
Mix, not balance!
3 Swear Words from Mary
PROPER (or Good English/Bad English)
MASTER
PIECE
COMMON SENSE
also pivot, drill down, nice, let's take a listen, takeaway, lean into etc.
It is a nationality, an English variety, a documentary, a country, and many other things, but it's not a language as some people think!
What is American?
Complain, Request, Cry, Moan, Agree, Shout, Wink
Rub eyes, Yawn are examples of what?
What are speech acts?
Kenneth Pike created the terms “emic” and “etic” from the endings of these two speech sound terms.
What are “phonemic" and “phonetic?"
The U.S. is broadly perceived as what kind of lingual society?
What is monolingual?
The movement back and forth between two languages or dialects within the same sentence and name two types of this that may done in classrooms?
What does this have to do with ESL?
What is Code-switching?
Equivalence, floor holding, meta-language, reiteration, group membership, conflict-control, alignment/disalignment
Everything!
He objects to the idea that there is no recursion in Piraha.
Who is Chomsky? For the point, what does recursion mean and why is it so important to me? (Chomsky)
Who is the author of the SPEAKING mnemonic and what do the letters stand for? Why do we use it?
Del Hymes
Setting, Participants, Ends, Acts, Keys, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genre
Jeff: I’m furry. I’m going to b and f the ts.
Mary: I think Nobu is in there.
Jeff: Okay, I’ll use yours.
What is an adjective rule in English?
What does furry mean in this context
Identify two speech acts
How many sounds in the name Nobu?
How many meaning units are in b and f the ts.
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Phonology
Morphology
Why does Cruz-Ferreira consider the following bolded words problematic?
Multilinguals are gifted
Multililinguals balance out their languages
Language learners should master one language before learning another
gifted is a contextual word; most people in the world are bi/multiligual, thus the norm.
Multilinguals are unbalanced; tension--not balance
Nobody really masters anything; tell a multilingual child that s/he has to master Arabic before she can learn English with her peers!
The meaning created by the Chinese characters for many trees (“forest") above a “woman."
What is GREED :(
________say hard and butter as /ˈhɑrd/ and /ˈbʌtər/, whereas a non-rhotic speaker "drops" or "deletes" the /r/ sound, pronouncing them approximately as /ˈhɑːd/ and /ˈbʌtə/. A ____ _______speaker would still pronounce the /r/ in the words run, tree and very since in these cases the r is followed by a _______.
And how would a person from England say this?
That muffin has bacteria on it. Why?
Rhotic
Non-rhotic
Vowel
That muffin has bacteria(r) on it.
Daily Double
Either name the following speech acts from a Catholic Mass or Tell when the action happens
Genuflect, Sign of the Cross, Action before reading gospel, Drink from Chalice, Kiss of Peace, Holding out hands or tongue for communion.
Daily Double
Look at the Board
Emic and Etic
Inner, Expanding, Outer Circles of English (Kachru) RP English (Received Pronunciation)
Daily HALF --OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Look at page 103-104 Holmes; what are the official languages of these countries--Get 7 correct!
Answers on page 124
Identify three ways in which you can become sociolinguistically competent yourselves as teachers (from Sociolinguistic Competence, Chapter 16 Homes pp.440-45 -->Competence can be defined as knowledge which underlies people’s ability to use (and understand) languages(s) (and how they are used CONTEXTUALLY)