Linguistics

"students who are considered historically underrepresented in the Unites States and those students are referred to as culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) and students of color" (Smith & Tyler, p. 74) Its important to note that "cultural or linguistic diversity is not a disability." (Smith & Tyler, p.74) To meet the needs of all students, schools must provide an educational opportunity that is responsive to their families, communities, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.…

Analysing and comparing features of child language, using transcripts from a child with normal language and a child with a speech impairment Introduction Child language is not dominated by one particular theory but instead explained and explored…

Until the age of five, I was only exposed to the Spanish language, but when I started school, I quickly learned how to read, write, and speak English. When my mother gave birth to my younger brother, doctors advised us, as a bilingual household, to teach him one language at a time to avoid confusion. It would be interesting to examine this advice with a deeper understanding of language and its manifestation in our brains. Introduction: Language in the Brain The understanding of language has…

4 NON- ENGLISH SPEAKER INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION Comment by vgiroux: Let?s hyphenate Non-English in Heading and throughout the paper Non - English Speakers Interpersonal Communication Lisa A. Bonilla University of Miami 1 Running head: NON ENGLISH SPEAKER INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION [Type text] [Type text] [Type text] 1 Running head: NON- ENGLISH SPEAKERS COMMUNICATION ABSTRACT Comment by vgiroux: Keep verbs in the present tense. not the future tense when…

writing programs, CCCC urges writing programs and teachers to recognize the increasing presence of these students and “to understand their characteristics, and to develop instructional and administrative practices that are sensitive to their linguistic and cultural needs” (1). The statement urges for additional research regarding the issues involved with second-language writing ranging from all aspects of writing theory to writing assessment. Additionally,…

In the article, “Human Language is Different from Animal Communication” from Big History, a professor of linguistics in Scotland named James R. Hurford discusses the vast difference between humans and animals and the way these creatures interact. He states, “Human languages contain tens of thousands of arbitrary, learned symbols, mainly words. No other animal…

Krashen’s input hypothesis was criticized from two points of view, the first problem was i+1 formula. This hypothesis was similar to David Asubel (1993) idea as meaningfulness or subsumability. According to subsumability, the received information should roughly tune to students background knowledge which was very close to Krashen’s i+1 hypothesis. As Brown (2007) said, “i and 1 cannot be clearly defined” (as cited in Latifi; ketabi & mohamadi, 2013, p. 224). The second i+1 is challenged from…

• Standard English: RP (Received Pronunciation) (the Queen’s English), (BBC English) • RP is used by well-educated English speakers worldwide and not bound to certain region • Non-standard English: LinguIstic forms which are not part of standard English 1. Socially  because non-standard forms are associated with the speech of less prestigious social groups, the label (nonstandard) acquired negative connotation. 2. Lingustically  there is nothing inferior…

Culture influences language and they are connected to one another. Language is a reflection of culture. Culture is the main idea and language is that detail that conveys the main idea. In short, language and culture connects to one another and can not be separated. The one that I find the most compelling from the theories of language and culture that we have encountered,is that in order for you to fully understand the language first you have to understand the culture, because culture creates…

Our Language “For others, it is to share and spread also those words that are meaningful to us. But primarily for us all, it is necessary to teach by living and speaking those truths which we believe and know beyond understanding,” from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde. Within our society women are viewed with a lower status than men just because of their use of indirect speech. This is mainly due to how children are brought up within their cultures and…