Language & Intercultural Communication Flashcards
Krashen: Acquisition vs. Learning Hypothesis
Second language learners go through a silent stage just as young children do
Krashen’s i + 1 Theory
i = input & +1 = the message being a bit beyond the learners level with language proficiency.
*Creating comprehensible input that is slightly challenging will push the learner further on the language development continuum.
Krashan: Natural Order Hypothesis
Grammar need not be the center of instruction - certain rules are learned before others and are acquired gradually, so they do not have to be formally taught.
Krashen’s Input Hypothesis
When learners understand the language and are exposed to information just a little bit beyond their current level of comprehension, language acquisition takes place (i + 1 theory)
Krashen’s Monitor Hypothesis
Corrections by teachers and native speakers may not be internalized until the learner is developmentally ready. Because errors are a part of the natural order of acquisition, second language teachers should not over emphasize them during instruction.
Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis
The learner must feel secure and unthreatened in the classroom environment
Biculturalism
Relating to and including 2 distinct cultures.
Biculturalism represents comfort and proficiency with both ones heritage culture and the culture of the country or region in which one has settled
Bilingualism
The ability to speak 2 languages
*Has positive effects on the brain
Biliteracy
The ability to read and write proficiently in two languages - fluency in both reading and writing are present in biliteracy
Priorities for starting an effective ELL program
*Support/welcome family - communicate with them in their langauge
*Know individual student needs
*How language is acquired
*Inclusive education
*Additive philosophy of L2 acquisition
*High standards for all
*Celebrate all cultures in curriculum
*Non biased/judgemental teachers
Knowledge of stages of acculturate
*PD for strategies for teaching ESL Students
Code-Switching
The practice of moving back and forth between two languages or between two dialects or registers of the same language
Funds of Knowledge
The knowledge students gain from their families, cultural backgrounds, neighborhoods, etc…
English-Only Movement
Movement to establish English as the sole language of use in the United States
Scaffolding
Instructional supports to best facilitate learning when students are introduced to a subject and for continued learning of a subject
Vygotsky’s ZPD or ZOPED
Zones of proximal development, the predictive path of language acquisition/development
What students do today with help they will do on their own tomorrow
Critical Literacy (Cultural Literacy)
A culturally literate person grows up as part of the dominant culture, speaking the dominant language, and absorbs the history, values, beliefs, stories, myths, legends, of the dominant people before even entering school. It involves history, art, politics, icons, etc…
Critical Pedagogy
Why we do what we do
The “High Civilization” View of Culture
Ideal of Individual Refinement.
One type of behavior is superior to another
“a man of culture”
“Set of Traits” View of Culture
The underlying soul, spirit of a people, archetypal values of a people
The Anthropological Idea of Culture
Complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, laws, morals, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by a member of society
What constitutes culture
Basic, national personality/character Perception Time Concepts Space Concepts Thinking Language Nonverbal Communication: eye contact, body language Values Behavior Social Groups; Relationships
Diglossia
Using 2 different languages in 2 different situations
Bilingualism but separating times when each language is used
Ethnocentrism
The belief in the superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture
Ethnography
The descriptive study of a human society. The data is largely collected from field work in which the ethnographer immerses himself into the society
Marked Language
Using language to “mark” a person’s status in social norms or academic settings.
Use as racial markedness, intelligence, or social norms
Labou’s Theory of Marked Language
AAVE is associated with contextual inferiority among teachers or members of the community
Marked Culture
- Culture permeates all human interaction including rituals, events, and language
- The marked culture is highly particular, unique, and unlike the others.
- Identification of a specific culture can denote status in social and academic settings
Linguistic Competencies
Use/Interpret elements of English
Sociolinguistic Competencies
Use language appropriately
Discourse Competencies
Detect coherence of separate utterances
Sociocultural Competencies
Familiarity with real world context
Strategic Competencies
Use verbal/non verbal communication to make up for gaps in English
Transitional Bilingual Education
Educational theory stating children can more easily acquire second language by first acquiring fluency in their native language
Maintenance Bilingual Education
Educational theory that supports use of students’ native language during school instruction for longer, before moving to English-only. Sometimes called late-exit program
Adler’s Phases of Culture Shock
- Contact Phase: Excitement, euphoria
- Disintegration Phase: Confusion, alienation
- Reintegration Phase: Regress or move on
- Autonomy Phase: Increased understanding of new culture
- Independence Phase: Cherishing cultural differences and accommodating new culture in world view
Coehlo’s Stages of Acculturation
- Arrival/1st Impressions: Adventure, optimism, euphoria
- Culture Shock: Discomfort, desolation, alienation
- Recovery/Optimism: Renewed sense of optimism/autonomy
- Acculturation: Accepting some values/practices of the new culture while still maintaining the original culture
Coehlos’ 1st Stage of Acculturation
Arrival/1st Impressions:
Adventure
Optimism
Euphoria
Coehlo’s 2nd Stage of Acculturation
Culture Shock:
Discomfort
Dislocation
Alienation
Coehlo’s 3rd Stage of Acculturation
Recovery/Optimism:
Renewed sense of optimism automony
Coehlo’s 4th Stage of Acculturation
Accepting some values/practices of the new culture while still maintaining the original culture
Oberg’s Stages of Culture Shock
- Honeymoon Stage: Fascination, elation, optimism
- Hostility Stage: Resistance, seeking comparisons from own culture
- Recovery Stage: Increased language knowledge and ability to handle the new culture
- Adjustment Stage: Acceptance and enjoyment of new customers
Two-way Bilingual Education (Developmental Bilingual Programs)
- Groups language minority students from a single language background in the same classroom with language majority students.
- Instruction is provided in both English and the minority language. Both groups have the opportunity to acquire proficiency in a second language while continuing to develop their native language skills. Students serve as native-speaker role models for their peers
The 2 Paradigms of Paulo Freire’s Banking Concept: Mythecisize Reality:
Conceal certain facts which explain the way men exist: Inhibits creativity Resists dialogue Isolates consciousness Lectures Non historical beings
The 2 Paradigms of Paulo Freire’s Banking Concept: Problem-Posing Education:
Encourages; dialogues, critical thinking, stimulates reality, inquiry/creative transformation, man’s history = starting point, affirms the process of becoming, education is ongoing, futurity/prophetic, power to perceive, humanism, liberating
Corson’s Discourse Norms
- Often more than arbitrary habits that people acquire in their socialization.
- Each can convey a subtle meaning of its own, whose rules of use can reflect core values of culture.
- Basically the rules/approaches that each culture takes to education
Stephen Krashen’s 5 Hypothesis Regarding Language Acquisition
The Acquisition - Learning Hypothesis The Monitor Hypothesis The Natural Order Hypothesis The Input Hypothesis The Affective Filter Hypothesis
Cummins’ Quadrant A:
BICS/Context Embedded
Survival Language
Following Directions with Model
Understanding with Speaker’s actions, facial expressions, gestures, etc
TPR - Total Physical Response
Choosing correct answer when given choices
Cummins’ Quadrant B:
BICS/Context Reduced
Telephone Conversation Filling out job application Reading directions w/o illustrations Simple written text Simple homework w/no connection to classwork
Cummins’ Quadrant C:
CALP/Context Embedded
Book reports w/ templates
Instructions w/ graphic organizers, visuals, role play etc..
Presenting an academic paper
Dramatic scenes where students memorize lines
Doing hands-on experiments through scientific inquiry
Math w/ manipulations
Cummins’ Quadrant D:
CALP/Context Reduced
Standardized tests Text w/o Visuals Lectures Listening to the news Math word problems Mainstream content text
John Ogbu’s Voluntary/Involuntary Minorities
Involuntary minorities are constrained by social, school, and classroom structures that denied them equal opportunity for many generations… most of the research has concentrated on African American and indigenous peoples of North American or Aboriginal peoples elsewhere
*Voluntary minorities choose to immigrate, usually in search of work.
Cummins’ Additive/Subtractive Bilingualism
Educators who see their role as adding a second language and cultural affiliation to their students’ repertoire are likely to empower students more then those additive orientation does not require the actual teaching of a minority language.
*Educators must only communicate to the students and parents that the minority language and culture we valued within the context of the school.
Critical Language Awareness
- All language changes over time
- All spoken languages are equal in terms of linguistic potential
- Grammatically/communicative effectiveness are distinct and independent issues
- Written language/spoken language are historically, structurally, and functionally fundamentally different creatures
- Variation is intrinsic to all spoken language at every level, as mush of that variation serves an emblematic purpose
- Academics language differs from social language and is much more difficult to learn without prior education in L1
- There is much prejudice in Language and much discrimination in Discourse: Labeling, sexist language, discursive bias, rhetorical language
Cummins’ Quadrant A Activities:
BICS/Context Embedded
- Play charades to demonstrate the ability to communicate w/o using language
- A student will demonstrate the ability to communicate using tone/sounds only by answering a partners yes/no questions w/o opening his/her mouth
ESL Education
- English as a second language
- ESL students are designated to receive accommodations and support with their language acquisition goals
- They benefit from scaffolding techniques
- ESL Students are working to become fluent in oral, written, and spoken English
Cummins’ Threshold Hypothesis
- If a certain academic/literacy threshold is not reached in the first language. Students may experience cognitive and academic difficulties in the second.
- No longer using semi-lingualism - the belief that some language minority children do not know any language at all or speak their native and target languages with only limited ability - this belief has little validity.
- The attainment of academic language proficiency is the main variable in school success.
Cummins’ Quadrant B Activities:
BICS/Context Reduced
Activity 1: Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively over the telephone by working in partners. The partners will sit back to back and alternate being the character calling to inquire after the status of his/her job application and the character receiving the phone call.
Activity 2: Students will demonstrate their ability to follow directions by working through the 25 questions on the worksheet (if they actually follow the directions, the only action they will be #25 which is to put their name at the top of the page - the rest of the directions they should not actually follow)
Cummins’ Quadratic C Activities:
CALP/Context Embedded
Activity #1: Students will use Cornell Notes to organize the information they learn by reading Ch. 5 of the text book.
Activity #2: Students will interpret a poem by reciting it from memory in a dramatization
Cummins’ Quadrant D Activities:
CALP/Context Reduced
Activity 1: Students will take and pass the HSA’s the first time they take them
Activity 2: Students will solve equations by accurately interpreting word problems
Sociolinguistics
The effects of any and all aspects of society, including cultrual norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society
Edward Sapir’s take on Culture
Any form of behavior, explicit or implicit, which cannot be directly explained as physiologically necessary but can be interpreted in terms of the totality of meanings of a specific group and which can be shown to be the result of a strictly historical process, is likely to be cultural in essence