In the multilingual milieu of Singapore, language variation and policy interplay to shape both individual identities and national cohesion. Centuries of colonial rule, rapid post-independence economic ...
Language ideologies encompass the beliefs and attitudes that speakers and institutions hold about varieties of language, linking everyday linguistic practice to wider social, political and economic ...
Hmong secret languages : themes and variations / Martha Ratliff -- Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications / ...
In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...
New research links DNA and language diversity, showing that isolated populations consistently develop more varied language structures.
Introduction: language ideology: science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language ideology and the language subordination model -- ...
Instead of prohibiting slang, teachers can use culturally responsive practices to connect with students and learn from how they talk to each other. Last fall one of Chanea Bond’s ninth grade students ...
The focus of this section is on strategies to support resettled refugees’ acquisition of the language of the receiving community (often referred to as the target language). Some of the principles and ...
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