language and region Flashcards
What do Choy and Dodd believe?
That teachers make judgements on students abilities based on their personality and/based on the way they speak.
What do Seligman, Tucker and Lambert believe?
Teachers perceptions of students vary depending on their speech.
Was Jones a prescriptivist or a descriptivist?
Descriptivist
What is a descriptivist?
Someone who welcomes or accepts the changes in languages.
What is a prescriptivist?
Someone who believes there are correct and incorrect manners of language, and prefers tradition to change.
What did Jones believe?
That teachers were missionaries of speech, with a job to correct aspects of regional language, replacing them with Standard English.
What does ‘coining’ or ‘coined’ mean?
To invent a new word or phrase.
What did Rosewarne coin?
The term Estuary English.
What is Estuary English?
Modified regional speech, which Rosewarne placed between RP and Cockney accents, or an umbrella term covering many southern English accents.
