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Instructional Tool 6
Term | Definition |
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social dominance | is the L2 group politically, culturally, technically, or economically superior, inferior, or equal to the target language group |
integration pattern | whether the L2 group gives up their own lifestyle and values in favor of the TL |
enclosure | the extent to which the L2 group shares the same social facilities (low enclosure) or has different social facilities (high enclosure) |
cohesiveness | the extent to which the L2 group is characterized by intra-group contacts or inter-group contacts |
size | whether the L2 group is a large or small group |
cultural congruence | whether the culture of the L2 group is similar or different from the TL group |
attitude | whether the L2 group and TL group may hold positive or negative attitudes towards each other |
intended length of residence | whether the the L2 group intends to stay for a long period of time or a short time |
Sociocultural SLA | the interweaving of cognitive processing and social interaction to acquire a second language |
mediation | the process through which humans deploy culturally constructed artifacts, concepts, and activities to regulate the material world or their own and each other's social and mental activity |
private speech | audible speech not adapted to an addressee |
Zone of Proximal Development | the level of potential development; ZPD is a step up from the learner's present level, but the material given is not too hard for the learner to do |
Collaborative dialogue | dialogue where speakers are engaged in problem solving and knowledge building |
languaging | attention to linguistic form when a problem arrises |
sociocognitive approach | theory that acknowledges that there is both a social and a cognitive dimension to all forms of language |
conversation-analytic approach | emphasizes the importance of leaning as a process (something that happens in social interaction) |
short-term development | if change occurs within a single interaction or within subsequent interactions that occur shortly afterwards |
long-term development | leaning that takes place over an extended period (many lessons, a semester, a nine weeks, a year) |
social identity approach | based off the idea that our social identity is a ever changing state that is influenced by our interactions with different people in different context |
social identity | the relationship between the individual and the larger social world |
transitional identity | the change language learners go through where they begin to adapt the new language's identity in some form |
language socialization | the practice where novices in the community are socialized both into the forms of a language, the values, behaviors, and practices of a community |