Comd 2500 Chapter 9 Diversity

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What is considered a variety of language that vary only in pronunciation, not in vocabulary or grammar?

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Accents

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The way in which a culture deals with infant-directed speech which can range from highly child centered to highly situation centered is referred to as what type of accommodation?

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Communicative Accommodation

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The input hypothesis states that L2 learners move forward in their competence by receiving input that is just slightly ahead of their current state of grammatical knowledge, also referred to as what?

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Comprehensible Input

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What is also known as the "sensitive period" refers to the window of opportunity during which children develop language most rapidly and with the most ease?

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Critical Period Hypothesis

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People who learn two or more languages simultaneously, sequentially, as a second language in school in the US, or as a foreign language in another country are referred to as ?

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Dual Language Learners

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The idea that bilingual children have two separate language systems from the start. According to this theory, bilingual children do not move through stages whereby they eventually differentiate between the two language

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Dual Language System Hypothesis

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What is the name of the verbs "make", "do", and "go", that children rely heavily during the fourth stage of L2 development

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General all-purpose Verbs

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The first stage of learning English as a second language in which children use their home language in the classroom with other children and adults is referred to as what?

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Home Language stage

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The language system speakers create during second language acquisition which includes elements of the first langauge and the second language as well as elements found in neither of the two languages is referred to as?

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Interlanguage

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What is it called when code switching occurs between utterances?

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Interutterance Mixing

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When code witching occurs within a single utterance is referred to as what?

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Intrautterance mixing

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When the speech of a second language speaker becomes permanently established in the interlanguage is referred to as..

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Language Fossilization

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This is the fourth stage of second language development, in which children are not yet proficient speakers of their second language but their communicative repertoire continues to expand

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Language Productivity

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In second language acquisition, when the interlanguage stops evolving and L2 learners read a plateau in their language development

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Language Stabilization

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A group of people who speak a language that the majority of people in an area value and assign high social status

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Majority ethnolinguistic community

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A group of people who speak a language that few people in the community speak or value

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Minority ethnolinguistic community

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Second stage of ESL, during this period children learn little to no language, instead begin to acquire their L2 receptively. Some children in this stage use gestures to communicate until they acquire a sufficient number of words in their second language

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Nonverbal period

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A language impairment resulting from, or secondary to, conditions such as mental retardation, autism, and traumatic brain injury

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Second Language Acquisition

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The third stage of second langauge development; children begin to imitate other people, use single words to label items, and use simple phrases that they memorize. The variety of communicative functions they can express is limited

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Telegraphic and Formulaic Use

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The idea that bilingual children have a single language system that eventually splits into 2. According to this theory, children are not bilingual until they successfully differentiate between the two languages.

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Unitary Language System Hypothesis

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One prominent view on the interrelatedness between language and culture is that from the time humans are born we are socialized both ___ the use of language and ___ the use of language

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through; to

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___ are regional or social varieties of language that differ from one another in terms of their pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar

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Dialect