Legislation / Cases
The Civil Rights Movement led to this legislation that identified language discrimination by defining language as a characteristic of the protected class of 'national origin'. (Macías)
What is the Civil Rights Act?
The second most globally spoken language. (Macías)
What is Spanish?
The term describing the number of languages spoken by the majority of the world's population. (Macías)
What is bilingual?
A language given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. (Definition)
What is an official language?
1857 court case that decided African Americans were not and could not be citizens. (Macías)
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The most commonly spoken non-English language in the British colonies and in the young nation. (Macías)
What is German?
The study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. (Definition)
Who are sociolinguists?
Ethnicity of people who were segregated in Southwestern schools for being ESL / ELL students. (Macías)
Who are Hispanics?
Court case that established that non-native speakers are at a disadvantage in the classroom. (Hakuta)
What is Lau v. Nichols?
The most widely spoken language throughout the world. (Macías)
What is Mandarin Chinese?
Language that carries on beyond basic vocabulary and communicative skills. (Hakuta)
What is academic language?
The language spoken by groups of people with the most power. (Macías & Hakuta)
What is English?
What is the Bilingual Education Act?
The most heavily restricted language throughout the colonies, especially during the period of Slavery. (Macías)
What are African Languages?
The policy and ideology of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. (Definition)
What is nativism?
The discipline most concerned with 'value' in language. (Macías)
What is economics?