Language revitalization‚ language revival or reversing language shift is the attempt by interested parties‚ including individuals‚ cultural or community groups‚ governments‚ or political authorities‚ to reverse the decline of a language. If the decline is severe‚ the language may be endangered‚ moribund‚ or extinct. In these cases‚ the goal of language revitalization is often to recover the spoken use of the language. Although the goals of language revitalization vary by community and situation‚
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Language and Gender Key Theories Robin Lakoff 1975 • Claimed that much of women’s language lacked real authority when compared to men‚ and proposed a set of features that characterised women’s language as deficient when compared to men’s. • Believed Socialisation played an important role. (Part of deficit approach) Jenny Cheshire 1982 • Research in Reading looking at language of teenagers. • Found that boys used more non-standard forms than girls. Believed to be because boys were members
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while at the same time opening the door to learning a second language. This allows the students to be comfortable with their language rather feeling forced to learn a new language. This supportive type of learning and communicative environment allows the students to embrace their culture and language while moving on to learning a second language. It sets the stage for learning when teachers respond to students who speak borderland languages by allowing them to write‚ speak‚ and express themselves in
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Language is an essential from of communication. It allows people to convey and elaborate their perspective. However‚ there are many forms and styles of language. Different counties and religions have different ancestral languages and styles of speaking. I personally‚ am learning a second language to allow me the opportunity to communicates to a broader audience. Imagine what the world would be like if there was no talking or signing of any words. There would be panic‚ and mass confusion‚ the world
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about the structure and patterns of language unique to specific authors. These patterns are what make a great book a great book. The arduous task of analyzing works for grammar and style has yielded a unique product‚ guaranteed to enlighten the reader of literary classics. Grammardog’s strategy is to put the author’s words under the microscope. The result yields an increased appreciation of the art of writing and awareness of the importance and power of language. Grammardog.com L.L.C. P.O. Box 299
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A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to‚ i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the possible definitions‚ however‚ and the label is occasionally applied in ways that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate. Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young
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multicultural people we got used to hear different languages everyday‚ which brings up the questions if a country should be bilingual or have common language to unify. Charles Krauthammer essay “Let’s make it official” claims that we need a common language to be unified culture. A country is diverse in different culture but could be unified in language. It is necessary to understand what nationhood is‚ so that you the reader realize that a national language does not alter a nation. It binds the nation
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The English language English is one of the most important languages in the world. It can even be regarded as the single most important language. Though other languages are important too‚ they are not the same as the English language is. English is important because it is probably the only language that truly links the whole world together. If not for English‚ the whole world may not be as united as it is today. The other languages may be important for their local values and culture.Considering
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The language is the most important means of communication. It is necessary to be able to communicate not only in your own language but also in a foreign language. That is why people learn languages. The most important language of all is our mother tongue. We learn it from very young and it stay with us until we die. When we want to learn a new language‚ we must know our own very well. There are many different people and everyone learns a foreign language in his own way. For some people to learn
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First Year Seminar: What are Heritage Languages? 13 September 2014 The Importance of Language Maintenance at Home. Immigrant families come from numerous parts of the world to settle in the United States for a variety of reasons. Whether they come for economic prosperity or to escape persecution‚ and whether the stay is intended to be permanent or temporary‚ as long as they are speakers of a language other than English‚ they will face the dilemma of language maintenance. Parents have to make the decision
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