It refers to cases in which the attributed status of a language or variety is changed, for example, the designation of a language as the Official or National language, Language of Wider Communication. It also encompasses reaching decisions regarding particular societal functions that languages might have, for example decisions about what language should be used in school, in the courts, in hospitals, in the armed forces, in police and fire services, on traffic signs, in the official work of the legislative and executive branches, etc. ... It is basically concerned with changing the structure...

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In some schools - for example, Tower Hamlets - most bilingual children will speak the same language as a mother tongue, whereas in others 40 different languages or more may be spoken. ... When the focus is on the fact that children have access to two or more languages, the term bilingual will be used: for example, if we are discussing how to provide resources and activities in a classroom that will reflect and value the languages the children use. ... With respect to pupils learning EAL, the Coalition Government's policy is focused on promoting the rapid acquisition of English. ... Wit...

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Fig 1 about here (Leeper, 1935) no caption This example illustrates the principle in visual terms. Most people with normal vision cannot interpret the pattern of black patches as something meaningful until they are given a clue, in this case via language, as to how they should associate the pattern with something stored in their long term memory. ... The category boundaries for acoustic variation were extensively tested with speech synthesis. Figure 2 is an example of this type of test. ... (p. 1) -We assume that the student who comes in contact with a foreign language will find some...

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