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Peer reviewedIbrahim, Muhammad H. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
Diglossia is characterized here as a pattern in which a culture recognizes different language varieties. This paper deals with implications of Arabic diglossia for the teaching of English to Arab students. (CHK)
Descriptors: Arabic, Arabs, Diglossia, English (Second Language)
Metcalf, Allan – 2000
This book is a talking tour of American English. Short easy-to-read essays explicate the key features that make American speech so expressive and distinct. The tour begins in the South, home of the most easily recognized of American dialects, travels north the New England, then west to the Midwest, and on to the far west and Alaska and Hawaii. In…
Descriptors: Dialects, Diglossia, Idioms, Language Usage
Download full textMcAlpin, David W. – 1976
This vocabulary list is directed towards the Tamil instructor and the advanced student. Its primary goal is to bring some order to the teaching of vocabulary in the first two years of Tamil instruction. A secondary goal is to help the student through the vocabulary maze of Tamil diglossia. Three main criteria were employed in selecting words for…
Descriptors: Diacritical Marking, Dialects, Diglossia, Dravidian Languages
