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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Language choice"”.
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Language choice and preference in multilingual families: An analysis of code-switching between the first language and English by selected UNAM main campus lecturers and their families
Namibia is a country that is rich in languages and even though English is the official language, there are officially ten other local/indigenous languages that are spoken in the country. Studies have indicated that the use of English has been observed to be common in many homes in Windhoek, …
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The Code-Switching Behavior of Three Mandarin-English Speaking Children
… as a primary determinant of the children's language choice. Further research needs to explore the role of settings in bilingual children's use of code-switching because the children in this study tended to associate languages with participants, and the participants were relatively constant …
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Language Attitudes and Code-switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg
This thesis is a sociolinguistic investigation of language attitudes and code-switching behaviour in Luxembourg’s multilingual education system. Through a large-scale questionnaire study of language attitudes and an ethnographic study of attitudes and multilingual classroom behaviour, this study …
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Exploring the impact of language on consumer-brand relationships across digital media
… however, is the interplay between vernacular languages and consumer-brand relationships in a multilingual South Africa. Celebrated for its multicultural and multilingual identity, South Africa recognises eleven official languages with English predominantly used across marketing activities. …
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Non-cognitive factors in second language acquisition and language variety: a single case study of a Saudi male English for academic purposes student in the United States
… case study is a close-up view of how one second language learner, Abdul, acquired a particular variety of American English-in this case African American Vernacular English (AAVE) (Perryman-Clark, 2013). Non-cognitive factors are examined, and Stephen Krashen's Monitor Theory is suggested as a …
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Latinos in American Schools
… focusing on the participants' perceptions of language choice and teachers' attitudes and acceptance of them. The benefit of this study would be the advancement of knowledge in the area of Latino education, which may help enrich the academic lives of Latinos and equip school faculty and …
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从语码转换到语言转移以槟榔屿潮州话为例 = From Code-Switching to Language Shift: A Case Study on Penang Teochew
Most students of code-switching would name language shift or language death as one of the many consequences of code-switching. Meanwhile, students of language shift would demonstrate how code-switching happens during the process of shifting. Nevertheless, no one has yet proven or disproven that …
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Engaging the Brave and the Bold: Exploring the Discourses of Disability Through Life Stories
… of disability.</p> <p>Called forth through language, these discourses provide a site of analysis to better understand the sense-making that persons with acquired physical disabilities experience as they try and understand what it means to have a disability. From these two discourses, an …
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"He fell in love with me in English": language negotiation in the bilingual couple
… twentieth century, interest began to grow around language and the distinct ways in which bi- and multilingual speakers utilized their linguistic resources. The discipline of sociolinguistics as well as later theories from post-structuralism ushered in new paradigms that approached language as much …
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Language Domains and Status in Middle Cornish
The revived Cornish language is based on the Cornish medieval miracle and saints' lives plays, and a question arising is their use of non-Cornish phrases, which has been remarked on for many years, with no consensus of what their use means. Is there a pattern in its use, or is it random, and does …
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'My Testament in Englisshe Tonge': A study in the use of the vernacular in medieval wills
… comparative analysis of the testamentary language contrasts the phrasing of wills written in Latin and French with that used in the emerging English texts. The succeeding chapters focus on the testamentary archives of Bury St Edmunds and York, these case studies including examination of …
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Underlying ideologies of language medium policies in multilingual societies with particular reference to Southern Africa
… has left behind it a legacy of the colonial languages. As these states gained independence, the new political hierarchy has defined its language policy in accordance with its political ideology. This dissertation has been set out to examine the effects of the political ideology behind …
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Roma rap and the Black Train: minority voices in Hungarian hip hop
… paper I examine how metaphor and constraints on language choice interact with the artistic, social, and political aims of a popular late-90’s Hungarian Roma hip-hop group, known as Fekete Vonat (Black Train). Within other genres of Roma music, the use of Romani is common, particularly in …
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Ble mae’r Gymraeg? Where’s the Welsh? An investigation into the language of social interactions of secondary school students in a Welsh-medium secondary school.
… schools in Wales, the adoption of the language for social use amongst such pupils in anglicised regions of the country has been a matter of concern. This has led some to maintain that, for many pupils, Welsh is only the language of the classroom and has no role for them in wider social …
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Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School
… to their early elementary school children's home language use. To fill the gap in research, this study explores the relationship between first generation Latino parent perspectives of bilingualism, home language maintenance and loss, and the intersection of culture and identity in an elementary …
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Linguistics peculiarities of contemporary feline narrative
… perspectives, which affects the descriptive language choice and requires a "naturalization" of the narrative world. The objectives of this paper are to establish specificity of a feline focalization through "cats" thesaurus, angle of view and "cat" etymology (notion based on folk etymology). …
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Language shift or maintenance in Tamazight: A sociolinguistic study of Chaouia in Batna, Algeria.
… largest Berber group in Algeria. It examines language choice and use in three understudied communities in the plains of Aurès. It takes a multidisciplinary approach built on sociolinguistic and sociological theories to examine the role of history, language attitudes, language policies, …
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Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971
Research focused on the macro-trends in Canadian language policy (LP) has largely focused on two broad trajectories: (a) the processes of accommodation of Anglophone and Francophone communities (including the limitations of Canada's policy of bilingualism for French-speaking or official-language …
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Bilingualism in a functional perspective : the language and content learning of immigrant entrepreneurs
… a bilingual (Cantonese and English) business and language program which aims to relate the linguistic and managerial knowledge acquired in class to the business operations. This case study raises problematic questions for both LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) research and bilingual …
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