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Mother Tongue Debate and Language Policy in South Africa
ijhssnet.comAfrikaans still have a higher status than other languages. The value attached to these languages even by blacks themselves, undermines the survival of African languages. The result is that many black South Africans make English their language of choice as a medium of instruction (cf. Dyers 2001; De Klerk 2000 and Banda, 2004).
New Jersey Student Learning Standards – World Languages ...
www.nj.govWorld Languages Practices . The practices are the skills that individuals who leverage their ability to speak multiple languages in their careers use on a regular basis. Because t he purpose of World Languages is to provide students with the essential language skills and cultural understandings in languages other than English, many
Lost in Trarclation - Lera Boroditsky
lera.ucsd.eduinfluence go the other way, or both? Languages, of course, are human creations, tools we invent and hone to suit our needs. Simply showing that speakers of different languages think differently doesn't tell us whether it's language that shapes thought or the other way around. To demonstrate the causal role of language, what's needed
Economic Advantages of Bilingualism - CASLT
www.caslt.orgchoice of a second language for study. On top of the languages traditionally selected for second language skills (SLS), particularly French, English, German, Spanish and Italian, are courses in Chinese and other Asian languages, as well as Russian, Portuguese, Arabic and others.
Letter from Delano - University of California, San Diego
libraries.ucsd.eduperhaps, you may unleash that other force which our union by discipline and deed, censure and education has sought to avoid, that panacea shortcut, that senseless violence which ... The colors of our skins, the languages of our cultural and native origins, the lack of formal. education, the exclusion from the democratic process, the numbers of ...
Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier - Center for Global Development
www.cgdev.orgLanguages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many—sometimes all—nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting this property for more than four thousand languages which together account for more than 99 percent of the world’s population.