Diglossia: a sociolinguistic situation that ELT indigenous students face
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2016-01
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“The term diglossia is considered by Ferguson (1959, cited in Hudson, 1996) as a stable sociolinguistic situation within a speech community, where in addition to the regional dialects; there is a codified language. In these speech communities the low variety is used among the family and parents and the high one is learned by formal education and it is used for written and formal spoken purposes (Spolsky, 1998). In order to demonstrate this, Ferguson identified four linguistic situations that show the main characteristics of the diglossic phenomenon; Arabic, Swiss German, Haitian Creole, Modern Greek. 2 Ferguson described the features that these languages presented within the diglossic dimension. It was found that the features that exist in a diglossic situation are function, prestige, literary heritage, acquisition, standardization, stability, grammar, lexicon and phonology. The study will take place at a language department that belongs to one of the biggest public universities in Central Mexico. This department trains future English and French teachers. For this study, the participants are a group of 10 students that study English Language Teaching and come from an indigenous community.”
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