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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sociolinguistic profile"”.
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A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Pupils in the Bilingual Program at Martin Luther King, Jr. School #9
… involved. 2) to present, via this instrument, a sociolinguistic profile of the 3 pupils in the bilingual program, grades 4 - 6, at Martin Luther King, Jr. School #9 in Rochester, New York. The survey will be the result of the pupils' assessment of their language situation. In addition to the …
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A sociolinguistic profile of Mamelodi and Atteridgeville : its role in language policy development at local government level
… research project seeks to gain insight into the sociolinguistic realities of Mamelodi and Atteridgeville, two residential areas that resort under the Tshwane Metropolitan Council's jurisdiction (formerly known as the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Area) - including reference to language use, …
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The impact of non-standard varieties of isizulu language learning on students’ performance at a university of technology in Gauteng
… 15 interviews and 10 proficiency tests form a sociolinguistic profile of the non-standard varieties at a UoT. The dissemination of questionnaires and interviews and proficiency tests occurred almost simultaneously. The quantitative approach was used to convert the qualitative questionnaire …
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Translators and interpreters as adopters and agents of diffusion of planned lexical innovations: The francophone case
… there are relationships between sociocultural, sociolinguistic, and socioprofessional variables and reported adoption, variable adoption, or rejection of planned innovations; and (b) whether the francophone translators and interpreters, schools training them, and terminological banks and …
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Language maintenance and shift: a survey of isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve
… and 20 interviews served to provide a sociolinguistic profile of the language maintenance and shift in Soshanguve. Both the distribution of questionnaires and interviews occurred almost simultaneously. The use of purposive sampling as a sampling method was suitable for selecting a …
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
… from Catalan, and (2) to empirically uncover the sociolinguistic profile of each of [ɫ] and [z] in the respective social and linguistic ecologies of the Barcelonan bilingual community. Grounded in a speaker-based theory of language change (cf. Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog 1968) and a comparative …
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The case of the "innocuous" middle-class migrant employee: English language use and attitudes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
… Language Teaching (ELT) domain, to a more sociolinguistic and economic one (Boyle, 2012; Karmani, 2005; Randall & Samimi, 2010; Weber, 2011). While these studies have been significant to the field of World Englishes, no study has particularly observed the “innocuous” middle class migrant …