- Nov 07, 2020
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. But most of the 6,000 or so of the world's languages aren't in such a healthy state.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the Internet or any instant messaging exchange - anything that is a fast dialogue taking place. People simply do not put full stops in unless they want to make a point.
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020