Browsing by Subject "Sociolinguistics"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)College students' acquisition of "academic discourse" has been the focus of a long-standing debate in composition studies. Despite much critical attention, academic discourse is still an enigma. Yet many theorists contend ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)This investigation was conducted to determine two things. First, do teacher candidates expect different performance from students on the basis of students' language and/or ethnicity; and second, whether an introduction to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The purpose of this study is to determine how a select group of adolescents constructs written stories about personal experience, how they make use of the syntactic resources of English to encode information in narrative, ...
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(2013-08-28)The present study observes and compares the language attitudes towards standard English, standard Spanish, and code-switching in two U.S. and Mexico border cities (Laredo and Edinburg) by employing the matched-guise technique ...
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(2013-05-21)This study examines the language attitudes of entrepreneurial students enrolled in the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE) in Mexico City toward six rural and urban varieties of Mexican Spanish to consider whether their ...
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(2019-12-05)This study provides the background of Peru’s ethnic and linguistic history, leading up to reasons for transnational migration and ultimately the linguistic and social positioning of the Peruvian diaspora with respect to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)In order to develop sound models or theories of literacy, or written language learning and use, there must be adequate descriptions of how written language is learned and used. Such descriptions call for an approach that ...