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Rosti Vana; Lillie Padilla – Hispania, 2024
The present study examines the lack of representation of minority communities in the existing literature by examining the representation of Afro-Latinxs in texts and visuals in seven Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) textbooks, and the ideologies behind these representations. Drawing upon Norman Fairclough's (1995) model for conducting Critical…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Furkan Sevket Kir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which racialisation shapes EFL learners' conceptualizations of the 'native speaker' construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They were assigned to either the…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Coggshall, Elizabeth Learn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study of short-"a" (e.g., the vowel in words such as "bat," "bad," "bang," "ban") in New York City English (NYCE) has a long history, and with many different descriptions of this complex system (e.g., Babbitt 1896; Trager 1930; Labov 1966/2006; Cohen 1970; Labov 2007). It is complex due to the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Variation, North American English, Grammar
Cleveland State Univ., OH. – 1986
Materials concerning dialects and language variation are presented here as background information for a workshop on English dialect differences in elementary and secondary schools. Articles and essays include: "Grammatical, Phonological and Language Use Differences across Cultures" (Walt Wolfram); "A Linguistic Description of Social Dialects"…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Culture Conflict, Dialects
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Blanc, Michel, Ed.; Hamers, Josiane F., Ed. – 1987
Papers from an international conference on the interaction of languages and dialects in contact are presented in this volume. Papers include: "Quelques reflexions sur la variation linguistique"; "The Investigation of 'Language Continuum' and 'Diglossia': A Macrological Case Study and Theoretical Model"; "A Survey of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics
Schneider, Edgar W., Ed. – 1996
Essays on varieties of English in the United States include: "Research Trends in the Study of American English" (Edgar W. Schneider); "Piney Woods Southern" (Lee Pederson); "Foundations of American English" (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.); "The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records: The Case of LANCS an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), College Students