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TESOL Praxis II Study Set: Language in Culture

Terms in this set (9)

Pragmatics
The study of how context affects meaning (i.e., social language use).
Sociolinguistics
The study of the effect of how aspects of society affect language, and how language affects society.
Register
A variety of language used for a particular purpose or social setting. Situationally appropriate language.
Ex: formal, informal
Activities that give ESL students practice with different registers
Read with students and ask if the tone is conversational or academic; identify different registers and discuss their use as they come up.
World Englishes
Different varieties of English. Three circles of English: Inner, Outer, Expanding
Communicative Competence
The essential goal of language teaching: the ability to use language correctly and appropriately to accomplish communication goals.
4 areas of competence: linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic.
Differences between BICS and CALP
The differences are specialized language and different cognitive levels of language.
Who is associated with BICS and CALP?
Jim Cummins.
Interlanguage
- a system learners use to make sense of new language.
- preserves some features of L1 and overgeneralizes rules of L2
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