Sociolinguistics

Essentialism and Standard English are socially-constructed concepts which stand together in upholding a hierarchy that perpetuates ethnic inequality by privileging a dominant group. This privileged group is the white male, whose culture permeates into all other cultures, subtly altering and eliciting behavior to conform to the white male’s norms. Social scientists acknowledge and personify such influence of and social pressure from this culture with notions such as “white gaze,” which depict a…

Languages are the way of communication between the members of one society or among different societies. Using a language is preferable in order to convey the person's messages, ideas and opinions and even expressing feelings and emotions clearly and meaningfully. It is a well-known fact that children acquire the mother tongue language in their early age by imitating adults who are using the language around them. Therefore, children use the language and produce it fluently without knowing the…

2.4. Improvisation and creativity According to Lin (2011, as cited in Lehtonen et al., 2016) creative teaching is a creative, innovative and imaginative approach to teaching English. Creative pedagogy involving creative teaching, teaching for creativity and creative learning. Sawyer (2004, 2006, as cited in Lehtonen, et al. 2016) stressed the creative teacher’s ability to use improvisational principles directly. In teaching creatively, a teacher should employ the rules of improvisation…

This reflection paper focuses on the description of the activities in our class BBI5601, 2017 section. In this class, I have learned a lot of things with Dr. Sharon who taught us and it was really interactive. I observed a number of learning situations and while doing this I took notes of the current academic processes. For this paper, I will explain the possibilities of logical learning patterns and conducive learning conditions that work together to improve my knowledge about the learning…

Weakening of the territory’s link, but persistence of the territorial identities In order to understand the Kabyle collectives’ dynamics on the Internet, we need to look at the sociology of immigration. The Sayad (1977) showed that the first two generations of Kabyle immigrants in France were strongly connected with their country of origin. The relation with the territory of Algeria, Kabylia and more specifically with the village of origin was mainly characterized by the hope and the project of…

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.[1] The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential…

Abstract: The proposed topic for this article is gender variation in American Sign Language. In other words, men and women often sign differently when using American Sign Language. Our research will focus on the sign production, facial expressions, and body language chosen by both men and woman. Our research focuses on if and how do men and women sign differently in ASL. With this variation study we will prove that male and female signers sign different through the follow hypotheses:…

English has been the dominant global language since the nineteenth century. As a result of British imperialism, the language was spread to every region of the world. Since the twentieth century the United States’ role as the global economic and cultural power, has helped to maintain the global influence of the English language. Various dialects of English reflect cultural, racial and socioeconomic aspects of these groups (“What Privilege”) Standard English has often been defined as the correct…

English is one of the most important languages used in the world especially to make an interaction with other country. It motivates us able to use English well. Between Reading, Listening, and Writing, Speaking is one of the most important skills that have to have by the people. It makes us to improve our speaking. English as an international language is studied in kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school and senior high school. The school has to have a high quality in teaching and…

I. Introduction Hip-hop has continued to captivate the world as the most politically charged and uncensored genre of music, and it appears to return to be returning to its roots as a medium for expressing identity and as a format for social, political and cultural commentary (Waters 2016). This essay will firstly examine hip-hop’s role in the African-American community, and it’s use to form a medium to create a cultural identity for Black youth. Secondly, this essay will also consider the…