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Download full textOmoera, Osakue Stevenson; Aiwuyo, Oluranti Mary; Edemode, John; Anyanwu, Bibian – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This article examined the impact of social media on the writing abilities of Nigerian youths in English, which is the language of mass communication in Nigeria. Deploying cultivation theory of the media, this study used quantitative and qualitative methods to unpack the Nigerian youths' opinions on the impact of the use of social media on their…
Descriptors: Social Media, Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLucas, Ceil; Valli, Clayton – Language in Society, 1991
Reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Patterns of language use are reviewed and the role of demographic information in judgments is examined. (29 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Demography, English
Huebner, Thomas G. – 1976
Linguists of various theoretical backgrounds have likened second language (L2) acquisition to pidginization (Ferguson 1971, Richards 1971, Bickerton 1975a). This paper examines these two processes and suggests areas where a study of the process of second language acquisition in a natural setting might contribute insights to a general theory of…
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Skills
Peer reviewedBaron, Naomi S. – Language & Communication, 1998
Discussion of the linguistic character of electronic mail (e-mail) looks at technology's role in shaping spoken and written usage, the growth of e-mail as a new communication genre, and formal linguistic properties of e-mail. Proposes a model of e-mail as a creolizing linguistic modality, analogous to pidginization and creolization processes well…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Ushioda, Ema – 1993
A study explored the relevance of acculturation theory to language fossilization in the advanced stages of second language learning. Case studies of two native Japanese speakers with long experience living in an English-speaking environment are examined. First, the model of acculturation is outlined: it proposes that socio-psychological factors,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Creoles, Cultural Context
Bruzzese, Giannia – 1977
A detailed analysis of an Italian-American woman's speech is presented, and her interlanguage patterns are discussed in relation to a pidginization hypothesis. Data are presented on the following speech characteristics of the woman: free speech negatives, interrogatives, and present and past tense constructions. Her language is shown to be…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, English (Second Language)
High, Virginia Lacastro – 1978
Errors can be considered concrete representations of stages through which one must go in order to acquire one's native language and a second language. It has been discovered that certain errors appear systematically, revealing an approximate system, or "interlanguage," behind the erroneous utterances. Present research in second language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
