Assumptions behind Singapore’s language-in-education policy: implications for language planning and second language acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Received: 30 September 2007 / Accepted: 14 January 2009 / Published online: 27 February 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Singapore’s officially bilingual education policy‚ in which the majority of children are schooled through a non-native medium with their ‘Mother Tongue’ (an ethnic heritage language that is not necessarily
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Language Comprehension and Production Psychologists have long been interested in language. It was motivated by Chomsky’s work in linguistics‚ and by his claim that the special properties of language require special mechanisms to handle it. The special feature of language on which Chomsky focused was its productivity. Early psycholinguists described our comprehension and production of language in terms of the rules that were postulated by linguists (Fodor et al. 1974). As the field of psycholinguistics
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to imitate something. It is thought that most language development comes from what is said and heard from others. Reinforcement comes in where a child says something and then an adult encourages the child to say it again and again. This process is done when the child is an infant and continues as the child grows older. Neither modeling nor reinforcement sufficiently explains how children eventually acquire an adult-like form of their native language (McDevitt and Ormrod‚ 2013). Nativism The theory
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by the language he or she uses. In an essay of not more than 400 words‚ discuss with reference to the characteristics and salient features of DIALECT‚ SOCIOLECT and IDIOLECT. Linguists commonly use language variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language‚ including dialect‚ idiolect and social dialect. The use of the word variety refer to those different forms that avoid the use of the term language‚ which many people associate only with the standard language‚ and the
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Genie’s Language Progress Despite scoring at the level of a one-year-old upon her initial assessment‚ Genie quickly began adding new words to her vocabulary. She started by learning single words and eventually began putting two words together much the way young children do. Curtiss began to feel that Genie would be fully capable of acquiring language. After a year of treatment‚ she even started putting three words together occasionally. In children going through normal language development
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CULTURE AND LANGUAGE In today’s societies of the world‚ there are many cultures inside of one country. All countries have their own unique ways of life in the differences of how people are raised and their different locations. Many people migrate to other countries and feel lost due to this. More frequently‚ nations have been trying to mingle their own ways with others in America to create diversity that goes around the world. I have been raised mostly in the southeastern coastal region of the
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The American Dialect Society The Language of ’The Catcher in the Rye’ Author(s): Donald P. Costello Source: American Speech‚ Vol. 34‚ No. 3 (Oct.‚ 1959)‚ pp. 172-181 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/454038 . Accessed: 30/01/2011 11:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part
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1. This book integrates research in language acquisition‚ psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call language "comprehension‚" right from the reception of an acoustic stimulus at the ear‚ up to the point where we interpret the message the speaker intended. A major theme of the book is that "comprehension" is not a unitary skill; to understand spoken language‚ one needs the ability to classify incoming speech sounds‚ to relate them to a "mental lexicon
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The Five Love Languages The book by Gary Chapman‚ The Five Love Languages‚ discuses in full detail ways that will help couples work as a team‚ learn to speak and understand the languages of love‚ and how to effectively express that love and feel loved in return. The book discuss the five love languages to be word of affirmation‚ quality time‚ receiving gifts‚ acts of service‚ and physical touch. The book gives examples of each love language to give the reader a better understanding of how that
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EXAMINATION STRUCTURE FOR SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: FIRST TERM (APRIL2010-SEPTEMBER 2010) SEPTEMBER 2010 _________Tamil_______(CODE 006)_____ : CLASS :IX Time: 3 hrs. The Question Paper will be divided into four sections: Section A: Reading Comprehension - 15 marks Section B: Writing - 15 marks Section C: Grammar - 15 marks Section D: Literature - 35 marks Scheme of Section and Weightage to content: |SECTION |DETAILS OF TOPICS/
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