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Peer reviewedTisdell, Mariel – Babel: Australia, 1996
Presents modules and learning activities taken from other learning areas useful in the Australian second-language classroom. Argues that general and specific subject areas can stimulate dialogue and interest as well as cultural and social awareness, provide new language structures, enrich vocabulary and extend the use of idiomatic expressions, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, Dialogs (Language), Elementary Secondary Education
Wood, Gordon R. – 1971
This study of vocabulary change investigates the regional vocabularies found in eight of the Southern states and seeks conclusions about the relative changes in uniformity in current local use. Assumptions, procedures, and techniques for research are presented here. The results reported were obtained from a printed vocabulary questionnaire…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution
Fantini, Alvino E. – 1985
An ongoing longitudinal study, 15 years old at the time of publication, is reported. It is a sociolinguistic, developmental study of the acquisition of two languages, Spanish and English, by a boy from birth, with data drawn from direct observation and occasional tape recordings of speech. An introductory chapter outlines the objectives and method…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Children
