Multicultural Flashcards
actions are filtered as individuals go about the business of daily living; includes beliefs, behaviors, and values
culture
immigrants assume american cultural attributes
acculturation
immigrants incorporation into cultural and social networks of the host society
assimilation
2 major Spanish dialects in US
southwestern (mexican) and caribbean (puerto rico)
philippines, laos, cambodia, thailand, indonesia, singapore, burma, vietnam, malaysia
southeast asia
sri lanka, pakistan, india
south asia
japan, korea, china
east asia
what 2 things do these languages have in common: vietnamese, chinese, laotian
tonal languages and monosyllabic
when is it ok to diagnose a bilingual CH with a LI?
only if language-learning difficulties in BOTH languages (primary and English)
interference/transfer
error in student’s second language directly produced by influence of L1
what do CILF and FALF stand for?
CILF: conversational informal language fluency
FALF: formal academic language fluency
CILF or FALF: oral language only
CILF (FALF: oral and written)
CILF or FALF: context is reduced
FALF (CILF: context embedded because found in social interactions, not academic)
CILF or FALF: shared reality between speakers
CILF (FALF: assumes listener knowledge)
re: formal test: ecological validity
reflects CH’s actual, daily environment and life experience