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Terms about Language Use:
Research Terms
Language issues
100

the language a person is most familiar with and most accustomed to speaking (L1)

First Language

100

Any space in topics or issues where there’s a lack of solid research

Research gap

100

A language spoken internationally and learned by many people as a second language

World language

200

the language (including sign language) most preferred by the person for communication (PL)

Preferred language

200

This outlines the focus of your study:`

Research question

200

the more languages spoken in a region, the more linguistically diverse it is

Linguistic diversity

300

According to UNESCO, this is "language designated by law to be employed in the public domain".

official language

300

refers to whether research methods can reproduce the same results multiple times

Research reliability

300

One danger of losing linguistic diversity: 

  • Language is threatened if it is not politically protected, and especially if the children are not learning it
  • With death of languages, also the "traditional ecological knowledge about relationships between plants and animals is being lost" (Nabhan 2001: 151)
400

 the language that a child's mother and father speak

Mother tongue

400

How do we determine how reliable our data in research is?

  • the same test on different groups of people
  • the different test on same groups of people
400

These groups of people are considered the stewards of linguistic diversity:

Indigenous peoples, linguistic minorities

500

the most effective language for communicating deeply as well as for learning new concepts

Heart language

500

Six characteristics of great research questions (give three):

  • Focused on a single problem or issue
  • Researchable using primary and/or secondary sources
  • Feasible to answer within the timeframe and practical constraints
  • Specific enough to answer thoroughly
  • Complex enough to develop the answer over the space of a paper or thesis
  • Relevant to your field of study and/or society more broadly
500

The importance of linguistic diversity (just explain one):

- There is a positive correlation between linguistic and cultural diversity and ecobiological diversity; where the one type is high, the other usually is, too

- Plurilingualism enhances creativity; this also affects the creativity of industries existent in a country