emergence of permanent Hispanic communities. This situation offers an ideal opportunity to examine the dynamics of new dialect formation in progress‚ and the extent to which speakers acquire local dialect traits as they learn English as a second language. We focus on the production of the /ai/ diphthong among adolescents in two emerging Hispanic communities‚ one in an urbanand one in a rural context. Though both English and Spanish have the diphthong /ai/‚ the Southern regional variant of the benchmark
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Language arts is the term typically used by educators to describe the curriculum area that includes four modes of language: listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing. Language arts teaching constitutes a particularly important area in teacher education‚ since listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing permeate the curriculum; they are essential to learning and to the demonstration of learning in every content area. Teachers are charged with guiding students toward proficiency in these four language
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Tamil /ˈtæmɪl/[8] (தமிழ்‚ tamiḻ‚ [t̪ɐmɨɻ] ?) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu‚ Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Tamil is also a national language of Sri Lanka[9] and an official language of Singapore[10] It is legalized as one of the languages of medium of education inMalaysia along with English‚ Malay and Mandarin.[7][11] It is also chiefly spoken in the states
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Human Variation There are many different types of human variation that are influenced by a population’s geographic location‚ including skin color‚ height‚ and body proportions. Many geographic areas are associated with certain physical characteristics that cause them to be commonly classified as different races‚ which also include hair color‚ eye color‚ and cranial shape. These characteristics are in addition to the physical characteristics listed above that are
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of global languages and globalization; it also shows us how global languages spread and why they are needed. Key words: lingua franca‚ globalization‚ language Language and Globalization Since this paper is going to focus on the problem of language globalization I feel we should be properly introduced first to the term of lingua franca or otherwise known as a global language. The term lingua franca (plural lingue franche or lingua francas) is used to refer to any form of language that serves
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one is able to access these customs by interviewing someone from that culture. Language is the key module to a single culture‚ whether only one culture speaks a particular language or many cultures across the world share that same language. Sharing a language with another culture is a way of combining two or more cultures together in which they have a mutual characteristic of each culture. The French language is spoken in several countries; some consist of the United States‚ Canada‚ France
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any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second language. It
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Languages‚ dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today‚ and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`‚ ´Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main language of Sweden and is spoken approximately by 10 million people. Although until 2009 it was not the official language. The reason for that was
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of Social Class on Language Variation. (The Case of Pygmalion) [pic] *Introduction: -The aim of this paper is to introduce the ways in which language can vary‚ including change over time and variation within linguistic communities‚ the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and dialects‚ the development of language as it is being acquired and learned‚ the sporadic errors which can occur in normal language production‚ and the nature of speech and languages disorders (According
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There are two different varieties of the same language which are used in the community. One is known as “High” varieties‚ the other “Low” varieties. Each of them has their own role to play in a language. High varieties are commonly applied in the formal contexts‚ like meeting or press conference while low varieties are usually used in informal contexts‚ such as daily conversation with friends and family. Diglossia could also occur between two languages (Holmes‚ 2008). “Ah Boys to Men” is a conscription
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