Race is a social construct= fallacy= false Race Ethnicity ___________________________________________________ color Dialect= Language Religion Mode of dress Origins Food Tradition Values “Culture” Phenotype Homogeneity Plantation Agriculture‚ colonization‚ enslavement all contribute to
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Chapter 5 Rubenstein Language A. Language is system of communication through speech‚ a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. 1. Language is a part of culture 2. Geographers ask “where” different languages are used and “why” different languages have distinct distributions B. Literary tradition is a written language (many spoken languages have no written languages) C. KEY ISSUE 1: Where are different languages distributed
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languages and considers English her mother tongue. This is fairly prevalent in Singapore whereby we see people of mixed-races‚ who don’t even have the habit of speaking either one of their mother tongue languages. English is after all the de facto lingua franca of today’s Singapore. Furthermore‚ race no longer determines the choice of second languages in school. Perhaps‚ now‚ we can see that Chinese is the current racial majority‚ making their mother tongue the dominant second language. For this very
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UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE PANAMA I am a true believer that technology has become part of our daily life‚ especially when it comes to teaching a Lingua Franca just like the English Language. It is a tool that we as teachers cannot keep isolated; it is there to contribute in the teaching and learning process. However‚ when talking about teaching English fully online‚ it may have its advantages as well as its disadvantages. First‚ I would like to highlight some of the advantages students and teachers
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Imagine starting a race twenty minutes after the other participant‚ this gives them a head start hence lowering your chances to vanquish your opponents in the race. This example applies to real-life issues like the people born in high and stable economic situations. Their probability to succeed in life is higher than those indigenous from third-world countries. Panama faces this problem and I have no doubt a change can be achieved and I can be the one who does it because everyone deserves the chance
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LITERATURE REVIEW The Definition of Culture Culture is defined with different terms depending on the time and personal idea of the scholar and for that reason it is a really complex phenomenon. Kramsch(1998) defines culture as ‘membership in a discourse community that shares a common social space and history‚ and common imaginings.(p.10). On the other hand‚ Liddicoat‚ Papademetre ‚ Scarino and Kohler(2003) describe culture as a complex system of concepts‚ attitudes‚ values‚ beliefs‚ conventions
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CONTENTS Page Introduction 2 Problem Statement 2-3 Importance Of Study 3-4 Objective Of Study 4 Findings 5-6 Results 7-10 Conclusion 10 References 11 1.0 Introduction Communication occurs in everyday life whether it is at home or even within the work place and is respondent to the culture of the parties involved in the communication “Human Communication is the process of knowing something
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policy. During the same Council Resolution there arose a debate as to whether the current practices of language teaching were sufficient/appropriate for realising this stated ambition. The conclusion was ’no’. This was hardly a novel conclusion. The Lingua Programme‚ set up in 1990‚ had already declared the importance of ’promoting innovation in methods of foreign language training’ (Eurydice‚ 2006)‚ and the 1995 Resolution itself spoke of; ’...encouraging exchange with Member States of higher education
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[pic] [pic] [pic] ❖ GENERAL INFORMATION o Cagayan the "Land of Smiling Beauty"‚ is a province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. Its capital is Tuguegarao City and is located at the northeastern corner of the island of Luzon. Cagayan also includes the Babuyan Islands to the north. The province borders Ilocos Norte and Apayao to the west‚ and Kalinga and Isabela to the south. Cagayan province is distinct from the city in Mindanao named Cagayan
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"RESOLVED: THAT THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ENACT LEGISLATION MAKING AMERICAN ENGLISH THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." This sentiment was established by the English Only movement‚ which began in 1981 when Senator Hayakawa sponsored a constitutional amendment to make English the official language of the United States. Variations on his proposal have been before Congress ever since; the Language of Government Act has been pending before the House and Senate since
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