Chapter 6

Question 1

Arabic

Answer 1

Literary language of the Koran; the language and culture of the Arabs

Question 2

Back translation

Answer 2

Translating from one language into another and then translating back into the original to compare the results to avoid errors in translation

Question 3

Creole

Answer 3

Language that develops from prolonged contact of two or more languages and acquired by children as their first language

Question 4

Cultural invasion

Answer 4

Term used by Freire to refer to one group penetrating the culture of another group to impose its own view of the world

Question 5

Dialect

Answer 5

Variety speech differing from the standard

Question 6

Esperanto

Answer 6

Widely used a universal language devised in 1887 based on European vocabularies and Latin grammar

Question 7

Grammar

Answer 7

Linguistic rules governing sounds (or gestures in sign languages), meanings and syntax of the language

Question 8

Idiom

Answer 8

Expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its words

Question 9

Islam

Answer 9

World’s second largestreligion with nearly 1,000,000,000 followers that is based on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, believing in God, and having a body of law put forth in the Koran and the Sunnah

Question 10

Koran

Answer 10

Holy book of Islam considered to contain the literal works of Allah or God; The Arabic text includes stories, admissions, verse, and prophetic second (often spelled Quran)

Question 11

Language

Answer 11

Set of symbols shared by a community to communicate meaning and experience

Question 12

Literacy rate

Answer 12

Percentage of people, age 15 and older, you can, with understanding, both read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life

Question 13

Mother tongue

Answer 13

Parent language of other languages or a person’s first learned language

Question 14

Pidgin

Answer 14

Mixture of two or more languages to form a new language

Question 15

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Answer 15

Useful way of thinking about the relationship between language and culture (also known as Whorfian thesis and linguistic relativity)

Question 16

Syntax

Answer 16

Grammatical rules governing the way that words combined to form sentences

Question 17

Esperanto was a simplified language developed for use in science and technology

Answer 17

False

Question 18

The 1990 Native American Language Act discourages The use of American Indian languages in schools

Answer 18

False

Question 19

In contrast to the explicit language of the Koran the Arabic language reflecting its culture is poetic using repetition, metaphors, and similes

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Hindi is one official national language of India

Answer 20

False

Question 21

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis accounts for the differences in language is across cultures

Answer 21

True

Question 22

By definition pidgins are required by children as their first language

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The phrase “read between the lines” is an example of:

Answer 23

Idiom

Question 24

Canada has two official national languages

Answer 24

True

Question 25

That the term “human rights” can refer to freedom of speech and one country and universal healthcare and another reflects the translation problem of conceptual equivalence

Answer 25

True

Question 26

The spread of one language and the culture native to that language to come and use around the region is an example of:

Answer 26

Cultural invasion