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LING 115 Final Study GuideWhat is language? What is a dialect? - correct answer ✔✔Language- method of human communication,
whether spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured, conventional way
Dialect- particular form of a language that is specific to a region or social group
Varieties of English - correct answer ✔✔•Varieties are caused by geographic, educational, professional,
social terms or
mix of these.
•Indian English (Anglo-Indian English, Bengali English, Punjabi English, Tamil
English etc.); Euro-English; Asian English; Asian English; Nigerian English;
Australian English; New Zealand English etc.
Views of English language and American citizenship by the founding fathers of US - correct answer
✔✔Benjamin Franklin wanted to continue British standard for American English.
Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, wanted to encourage use of English that reflected American
experience. This is how American Variety of English was born, and this variety of English had different set
of vocabulary, new lexicon, different pronunciation.
Fearing the corruption of English language in US because of lack of a cultural center, John Adams wanted
to establish a national English language academy to overview the standardization of usage and
pronunciation.
Foreign Language Teaching is US in 1920s...was it allowed. Which court ruling ruled against the
restriction on teaching foreign languages in US schools? - correct answer ✔✔Foreign Language
instruction in schools was restricted.
Several schools in US (Nebraska legislature passed a law in 1919 against the use of foreign languages in
public)adopted laws that prohibited teaching foreign
languages in schools and use of foreign languages in public places.
US supreme court in 1923 ruled against the restrictions on foreign language instruction in schools.
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