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Cultural relativism

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There are different values based on different cultures/beliefs

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Ethnocentrism

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Assumption that own culture and belief is the norm

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Multi-cultural education

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Deals with ethnic diversity within the US. There are four levels

  1. Contributions
  2. Additive
  3. Transformative
  4. Social action
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MCE 1. Contributions

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Emphasizes what minority groups have contributed to society.
Ex: international food day, black history month.

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MCE 2. Additive

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Adding material to the curriculum to address what has been omitted.
Ex: reading the color purple in English class

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MCE 3. Transformative

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An expanded perspective is taken that deals with issues of historic, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic injustice and equality as a part of the American experience.
This is when students are moved to action due to what they learn and feel.

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MCE 4. Social Action

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Extension of the transformative approach to add students research/action projects to initiate change in a society.

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First language

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By 5 years old, a child will have use of the first language.

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Pragmatics

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The study of communication in context. How context affects interpretation of language.

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Prejudice

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Pre-judge.

Assumptions.

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Stereotype

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Over generalization of a particular way of being.

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Racism

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I am superior to you

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Syntax

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Refers to rules that governs formation of language and sentences.

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Acculturation

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Both cultures are kept

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Assimilation

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Abandoning own culture to take on a new culture

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Accommodation

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Mutual process: involves adaptations by members of the mainstream culture in repo se to a minority culture, who in turn accept some cultural change in adapting to the mainstream.

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Biculturalism

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Being able to function successfully in two cultures.

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Globalism

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Emphasizes the cultures and people’s of other lands.

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Egocentric

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Knows of other cultures but feels own is superior to all else

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Cognates-true

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Words that sound similar and have similar meanings in two languages.

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Cognates-false

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Words that sound similar and do not have the same meaning in two languages

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Institutional racism

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A set of practices or policies condoned by the school that privileges some students and discriminates against others

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Macro/mainstream culture

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Those individuals or groups who share values of the dominant macro culture
American mainstream are characterized by:
Individualism and privacy
Independence and self-reliance
Equality
Ambition and industriousness competitiveness
Appreciation of the good life
Perception that humans are separate from and superior to nature

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Morphology

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The study if the meaning units in a language. Some words have sampling words within and contain their own meaning

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Registry

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Formal and informal

It is evident. And. You know.

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Hallidays 7 language functions

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Instrumental
Regulatory
Informative
Interactional
Personal
Heuristic
Imaginative
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Instrumental

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Getting needs met

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Regulatory

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Controlling others behaviors

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Informative

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Communicating information

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Interactional

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Establishing personal relationships

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Personal

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Expressing induviduality

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Heuristic

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Investigating and acquiring knowledge

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Imaginative

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Expressing fantasy or possibility

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Morpheme

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Small units that cannot be further divided, are the basic building blocks of meaning

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Free morphemes

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Envelope, the, through. They can stand alone

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Bound morphemes

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-ing, dis-, they must have a root word to have meaning

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Phonemic awareness

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The ability to work with Phonemes. To add or subtract different sounds.

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Race

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Refers to a persons physical appearance such as skin color, eye color, hair color, bone/jaw structure

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Ethnicity

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Relates to cultural factors such as nationality, culture, ancestry, language and beliefs

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Phases of acculturation

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Euphoria- honeymoon period
Cultural fatigue/shock
Adjustment

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The five structures of language are

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Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

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Phonology

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The way in which speech sounds form patterns. Involves analyzing how sounds function in a given language or dialect.

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Morphology

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The study of the structure of words. Morphemes are studied by investigating the possible combos.

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Syntax

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Study of the structure of sentences and sentence patterns of a language.

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Semantics

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The study of the meaning of language

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Pragmatics

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Examines how context affects meaning and function

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