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Download full textHuebner, Thom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
Despite a century-old narrative as a monolingual country with quaint regional dialects, Thailand is in fact a country of vast linguistic diversity, where a population of approximately 60 million speak more than 70 languages representing five distinct language families (Luangthongkum, 2007; Premsrirat, 2011; Smalley, 1994), the result of a history…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Direct linkCornish, Francis – Language Sciences, 2013
The Functional Discourse Grammar model has a twofold objective: on the one hand, to provide a descriptively, psychologically and pragmatically adequate account of the forms made available by a typologically diverse range of languages; and on the other, to provide a model of language which is set up to reflect, at one remove, certain of the stages…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grammar, Models, Language Usage
Wilbers, Stephen – College Board Review, 1987
A discussion of American Sign Language looks at its history in the context of deaf education and its increasing acceptance as a complete natural language both among linguists and in the college curriculum. (MSE)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, College Curriculum, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness
Brann, Conrad Max Benedict – 1978
The linguistic situation in Nigeria might be represented as a pyramid with a base composed of 400-500 native languages of which about 100 have been alphabetized. Of these, 51 with more than 100,000 speakers each, are considered regional languages; ten, with more than 1 million speakers each, are considered inter-regional languages; and three…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism, Educational Change
