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Penalosa, Fernando – 1980
This work is an attempt to synthesize the findings of the multi-disciplinary research on various aspects of Chicanos' use of their two languages, Spanish and English. After an introduction on notions of language, speech, and sociology, the text covers nine aspects of the question: (1) historical background on the relations between the English and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Interrelationships, English, Hispanic American Culture
Peer reviewed
McLaughlin, Daniel – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1989
Develops a critique of the "special diglossia" idea: the notion that Navajos speak Navajo but read and write English. Describes uses for English and Navajo literacy in one community on the Navajo reservation. Applies concepts such as institution, ideology, power, and empowerment to these uses. (JS)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed
Sands, Roberta G. – Social Work, 1988
Introduces sociolinguistic concepts and describes basic features of conversation to elucidate understanding of language in a social context, necessary in the therapeutic interview. Analyzes a segment from a transcribed therapeutic interview with attention to pauses, repetitions, allocation of turns, interruptions, and overlaps. Finds therapeutic…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Evaluation
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Foster, Michele – Theory into Practice, 1992
Shared cultural backgrounds and norms about how to use language can influence classroom interactions for minorities, including African Americans. Research finds serious problems when teachers' interactional styles differ from that of students' home communities. The differences can prevent full student participation and limit academic progress.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Black Dialects
Peer reviewed
Klee, Carol A. – Hispania, 1998
The Standards for Foreign Language Learning present a definition of language teaching that includes the sociolinguistic and cultural aspects of language. The article analyzes the concept of communicative competence as used by sociolinguists and anthropologists and examines some of the components of communication (interpersonal, interpretive, and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Schiffman, Harold F. – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1995
Examines the position of Tamil as the language of an ethnic minority in Malaysia and Singapore, placing the issue of Tamil and language maintenance within the larger sociolinguistic milieu in the two countries and drawing conclusions about the role of language policy and planning in the determination of linguistic outcomes. (SM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Lebrun, Yvan – Language Sciences, 1980
The language development of children who have experienced malnutrition and varying degrees of speech and sensory deprivation is examined. In language learning, such children attend only when directly addressed, cannot control pitch and intonation and lack an understanding of the relational linguistic material and the sociolinguistic rules of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
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Dopke, Susanne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Discusses childhood bilingualism, reviewing the one person-one language principle and the criticism against it, discussing shortcomings of the criticism, examining what the principle can do to bilingual families, and noting the sociolinguistic and developmental effects that one person-one language principle can have on the acquisition of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, English Only Movement
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Gutierrez-Clellen, Vera F.; Restrepo, M. Adelaida; Bedore, Lisa; Pena, Elizabeth; Anderson, Raquel – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2000
This article discusses issues related to selection and development of language assessment procedures for children who speak Spanish and English based on spontaneous language samples and shows how available procedures can be applied to research and clinical aims with these children. Sociolinguistic influences in Spanish-speaker language performance…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1998
Examines the field of Spanish linguistics over 100 years, subdividing Spanish linguistics into several subdisciplines: historical grammar, descriptive phonetics, Spanish phonology, contrastive structures, descriptive grammar, Spanish syntax, specific Spanish dialectology, Spanish in Africa and Asia, sociolinguistics of Spanish-speaking societies,…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed
Corbeil, J.-C. – French Review, 1980
Discusses the changing status of Quebec French, as witnessed by laws governing its use and official nature, its actual usage as a communication tool, and attitudes of Anglophones and Francophones toward it. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Attitudes, Language Planning, Language Usage
Straker, Dolores – 1980
This paper focuses on the roles and functions that English based vernaculars play in contemporary society and reviews literature pertinent to that topic. Areas considered include (1) societal behavior toward language, (2) language as a group marker, and (3) the contextual parameters of language use. In the discussion of societal behavior toward…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Diglossia, English, Language Attitudes
PSI Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1981
In November 1980, the National Institute of Education (NIE) sponsored a roundtable on Issues in Urban Reading, the proceedings and recommendations of which are included in this paper and focused on two major questions: What is contributing to the drop in reading scores during the elementary and middle school years? and What are the skills and…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Conferences, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Lunden, Thomas – 1980
The geolinguistic history of Norden (Scandinavia plus Finland) is reviewed. The shifting political boundaries, particularly of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, have contributed to a complex distribution of language populations that is all the more interesting given the common ancestry of most of the languages involved. The forces of nationalism have…
Descriptors: History, Language Usage, Minority Groups, Sociocultural Patterns
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Gunthner, Susanne; Luckmann, Thomas – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1998
Investigates the communicative treatment of secrets, presenting examples from recorded communicative interactions in a wide range of social milieus and settings in which the participants revealed knowledge of secrets, tried to dig out old secrets without appearing to be doing so, and occasionally, appeared to be hiding some items of knowledge from…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Moral Values