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He, Hao – English Language Teaching, 2008
Minority students' English learning is a special and an indispensable component of English education system in China. This article studies students' linguistic knowledge that live in Northwestern China--Gan Nan Autonomy State of Gan Su Province with majority population of Tibetan, mixed with Chinese and some Muslim. An analogous analysis is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Minorities, Sino Tibetan Languages, Ethnic Groups
Hudson, Joyce – 1985
A study of the Kriol spoken in Australia's Fitzroy Valley begins with an overview of pidgins and creoles, and chronicles the historical beginnings of the Fitzroy Valley Kriol and the sociolinguistic situation there. Some grammatical features of Kriol are analyzed and compared to traditional Australian languages. Problems of assigning English…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Communication Problems, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles
Davis, A. L., Ed. – 1972
Eleven articles illustrating linguistic and methodological considerations concerning culture, class, and language variety are compiled in this text. It is suggested that a familiarity with the ideas in this book will enable teachers of the disadvantaged to improve their linguistic perspectives and teaching skills. The articles include: (1)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Basic Skills, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Boberg, Charles, Ed.; Meyerhoff, Miriam, Ed.; Strassel, Stephanie, Ed. – 1997
This issue includes the following articles: "Towards a Sociolinguistics of Style" (Alan Bell, Gary Johnson); "Engendering Identities: Pronoun Selection as an Indicator of Salient Intergroup Identities" (Miriam Meyerhoff); "A Majority Sound Change in a Minority Community" (Carmen Fought); "Addressing the Actuation…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language), Dialects, English (Second Language)
Teschner, Richard V.; And Others – 1975
This linguistically oriented bibliography lists 675 items that relate in part or in fall to the speech and language behavior of U.S. residents or citizens of Hispanic background. The bibliography, intended as a continuation of Hensley C. Woodbridge's 1954 study, includes material completed or published through December 1974, but generally excludes…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC. – 1987
Thirty-six nontraditional undergraduate courses in linguistics are described. Course topics include: animal communication, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, introductory linguistics, language and formal reasoning, language and human conflict, language and power, language and sex, language and the brain, language planning, language typology and…
Descriptors: Animals, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, College Curriculum