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Which of these languages is related to the Chinese languages?
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Burmese
According to the 2000 census, there were a little more than 1,000,000 people of Korean decent in the US,
and a similar number of people of Japanese decent, yet there were less than 500,000 speakers of Japanese,
and almost 900,000 speakers of Korean. The difference between the two groups is primarily due to the fact
that:
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Many Japanese Americans are of the 3rd generation or later, whereas most Korean Americans are
of the 1st or 2nd generation
Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor to heritage language loss in the United States?
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Immigrants to the United States may not see themselves as “abandoning” their old country and want
their children to retain knowledge and values of the old country.
Dialects of Yuè Chinese (including Cantonese) have been historically the predominant varieties in
communities of the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. What is the reason for this?
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Most of the early Chinese immigrants to the U.S. came from the region where these varieties are
spoken, the Guandong provice in Southern China.
What is the factor that explains the increased number of speakers of Chinese languages and other Asian
languages in the U.S. in recent decades?
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Change in U.S. immigration legislation in 1965 which barred discrimination based on national origin
A person who speaks Mandarin and Cantonese (but nothing else) is:
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Bilingual
The uniqueness of AAE lies in the particular combination of grammatical structures and phonological
characteristics such as:
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r-lessness
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absence of copula verb (e.g., is, are) in certain contexts
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the absence of various suffixes, including the third-person -s in the present tense
The Oakland School Board resolution that sparked the Ebonics controversy in 1996/1997 actually proposed
to:
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use African American English to teach the standard.
It has been noted that the complete (or almost complete) shift from the heritage language to English in Asian
American communities happens most typically by the ____ generation:
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2nd
All Asian Languages:
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none of the above
How are the differences between Standard English (SE) and African American English (AAE) addressed in
the Contrastive Analysis pedagogical approach?
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Teachers draw students’ attention to differences between AAE and SE
Which of the following
best
describes the Ebonics controversy? (Select only one; more than one may be
correct)
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The Ebonics controversy showed that people are more interested in maintaining standard English
than in raising literacy levels of children speaking non-standard varieties.
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The Ebonics controversy was caused by the pervasive belief that American African English is a
sub-standard form of English rather than a fully developed dialect in its own right.
Listen to this excerpt from an episode of This American Life:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/567/whats-going-on-in-there/act-two-1
. What are the language varieties
that Larry's dad speaks?
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Fujianese and Mandarin
According to Hinton (2009), what is one of the worst problems of first language attrition?
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Poor communication with parents and other elders in the community
Which of the following is true of Chicano English?
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It's a dialect of English
In AAE, the basic rule for word-final consonant cluster reduction is:
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Drop the second consonant ONLY if the consonants have the same voicing.
The term 'Mock Spanish' refers to:
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The humorous and/or derogatory use of pseudo-Spanish when speaking English.
Which of the following statements is true of Spanglish?
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Spanglish is code-switching
When someone uses a word in one language because he/she does not remember that word in another
language is most often an example of:
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Crutching
How are "borrowing" and "code-switching" different?
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Borrowing involves adapting a word or phrase from one language into another; code-switching is
switching between two languages in a single speech event
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