What is the Importance of Language Linguistic Flashcards

World Englishes are varieties of English spoken around the world.

The ability to use the language correctly and appropriately to accomplish communication goals

The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals

Study of linguistics

Social aspect of language learning that allows for adjustment to the routines of schooling and the comforts of peer interaction, and helps English learners to communicate with the teacher and peers, and overcome culture shock. BICS does not focus on grammar and sentence structure, but rather on the ability to communicate a message. BICS fluency does not equal English fluency

1) pairing a new student with a bilingual buddy who speaks the same primary language as well as English eases the pain of culture shock; 2) a “Newcomer Handbook” is helpful during the earliest stages of BICS acquisition. Students can help to create the orientation guide. 3) cooperative tasks of all kinds provide opportunities for students to speak with one another; students in the earliest stages of acquiring BICS should not be isolated from high-achieving peers during their “silent period”; cooperative groups with mixed abilities permit students some measure of participation even though all roles may not require a high level of verbal ability in English

Academic language necessary for access to and success in the core curriculum and to perform school tasks, which are often abstract and decontextualized; involves systematic thought processes and provides the brain with necessary tools to systematically categorize, compare, analyze, and accommodate new experiences

1) ensure that students understand and use the vocabulary of specific subjects 2) encourage English learners to repeat a term to themselves for practice; keeping a personal glossary of terms used academically

Interactive discourse, sociocultural variables, cooperative learning, discovery learning, construction of meaning, interlanguage variability

Interlanguage is the language system of an intermediate English learner that combines influences of the first and second language

There are two different ways of developing second language abilities that are independent of each other: acquiring and learning. Acquisition is subconscious; people do not realize they are acquiring language. Learning, on the other hand, is conscious; people intentionally learn through error correction.

People acquire grammatical structures in a predictable order. The order cannot be altered by instruction, but by first language influence. Knowing this order helps to understand why children make the mistakes they do.

Preproduction, early production, speech emergence, intermediate fluency

(silent period), learner absorbs sounds and rhythms of the new language, learns to identify specific words, relies on contextual clues for understanding key words, and generally communicates nonverbally

Once a learner feels more confident, words and phrases are attempted, and responses can consist of single words, two- or three-word combinations, utterances learned in one piece (“Can-I-go-to-the-bathroom?”), and simple poems and songs