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27 Cards in this Set
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Accent
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How an individual pronounces a word
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Additive Bilingualism
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The development or addition of a second language with no detriment to the first language.
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African American English
Ebonics Black English |
A dialect used by many African Americans, primarily those in working-class families.
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American Sign Language (ALS)
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A natural language that has been developed and used by people who are deaf that is based on a system of manual gestures.
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Argot
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A somewhat secret vocabulary of a coculture group.
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Basic Interpersonal Communications Skills
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Everyday conversational skills, which English Language learners can develop in approx. 2 years.
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Bidialectical
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Refers to an individual who has the ability to speak or utilize two or more dialects.
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Bilingual Education
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The use of two languages as media of instruction. The system accepts and develops native language and culture in the instructional process to help students learn English and learn academic subject matter.
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Bilingualism
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The ability to function in two languages.
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Co-cultures
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Groups of people who exist and function apart from the dominant culture.
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Cognitive academic language proficiency
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Higher levels of proficiency required in highly structured academic situations.
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Colloquialism
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The informal or conversational speech in a community.
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Dialects
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Variations of a language usually determined by region social class.
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ELL
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Students who have limited or not English skills and are in the process of leaning English.
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ESL
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Educational strategy that relies exclusively on English for teaching or learning in English language.
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Formal standard
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the acceptable written language that is typically found in grammar books.
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Informal standard
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the language considered proper in a community
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Language
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written or spoken human speech. enables people to communicate with others.
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Momolingualsim
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the ability to speak only one language.
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nonstandard dialect
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dialect of a specific language that is not considered standard.
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official english
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position supported by the US English, a citizens action group that is seeking to have English declared the official language of the US by Congress.
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Regression to the mean
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statistical phenomenon impinge that scores at the extreme ends of the statistical distribution more toward the population average with low scores moving higher and high scores moving lower .
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Signed English
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a system that translates an English oral or written word into a sign
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Standard English
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English spoken by a particular group of individuals in a community.
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Subtractive bilingualism
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situation where a second language replaces the first.
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Transitional programs
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programs emphasizing bilingual education as a means of moving from the culture and language most commonly used for communications in the home to the mainstream of US language and culture.
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Agnostic
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A person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.
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