Sociolinguistics

There are several important factors which must be considered as we attempt to achieve effective communication with others. We must first recognize the goal we are trying to achieve with the communication. Second, we need to recognize who we are and how we, as individuals, communicate with others. And lastly, we need to understand how our audience is going to actually receive or perceive the communication we have presented. Although all three of these factors are different, they all are…

In this study, because the topic of language and gender is too board and requires extensive knowledge about sociolinguistics, I just concentrate on the problems revolving around how the influence of gender differentiates language usage and the gender-exclusive factors are reflected in language pattern along with providing further examples to gain a deep insight of…

second language o The diversity in the school systems The suggestion Sylvie Roy makes to researchers who are interested in ethnographic research, sociocultural and critical theories are: 1) To examine how teachers can understand sociocultural, sociolinguistic and cognitive theories when teaching students in French immersion programs 2) To study how to help students increase language acquisition 3) To look into how French immersion students can be evaluated based on how they are and what they…

PRESERVING BILINGUAL SCHOOL IN INDONESIA Do you think that learning foreign language is important? How about entering the children to bilingual school? Will it increase their second language ability? In fact, there were many researchers and experts had been discussed about the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of bilingual education. One of the reasons why the bilingual schools can be unacceptable studies is when the study did not appropriate statistical tests (Rossell & Baker, 1996). On the…

30! For a better understanding of the African American English dialect, the next part of the investigation was focused on its main features and the sociolinguistic consequences they have. Finally, to conclude the research we focused on the educational aspects and the controversy that surrounded the African American English. Particularly we centered on the Oakland resolution of 1996 and 1997. Regarding the…

writers have trouble being persuasive, where in my experience, multilingual writers are persuasive and better explain their motivations and desires. According to James Paul Gee, a researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy states, “ Powerful literacy is control of a secondary use of language used in a secondary discourse that can serve as a meta-discourse to critique the primary discourse of other secondary discourses,…

Simpson’s (1989) analysis of fictional dialogue focuses on the phatic communication of characters’ conversations in Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman in which he tries to reason three broad theoretical issues. First, he draws on a sociolinguistic framework designed for the analysis of naturally occurring conversation and applies it to the rather unusual dialogue which takes place between the characters in O’Brien’s novel with a hope that such an analysis will highlight the ways in which…

For example, as an Arabic native speaker and previous English language learner and a current English as a foreign language instructor, and a future assistant professor at the University of Jeddah who has been involved in multicultural and multilingual contexts for several years, I produced a paper to investigate language use, motivation and attitudes towards foreign language learning. Through this investigation I learned how attitudes about language use influence the way some Arabic students…

Bamgbose (1995: 9) recognises five dimensions of the problem of English in Nige¬ria: educational, political, cultural, socio-cultural and linguistic. NATIVIZATION OF ENGLISH IN NIGERIAN When a language leaves its origin, it has to undergo many sociolinguistic changes and manipulations (Ahwefeada & Ojaruega, 2009; Bamgbose, 1995). Nativization is a term now generally used in linguistics to denote the indigenisation of a language in a nonnative, second language situation (Kachru, 1992).…

The topics of the three researches focus on language politicizing, Baltics nations struggle with language identity is major theme, which runs through the readings. The conflict is attributed to political, social and cultural reasons. Kangro & James focused on their research on the inevitable changes, which occurred in Latvia and influenced thee Latvian system. The authors elaborated on the research through identifying the development stages. The stages featured the adoption of the education…