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1Certificate of Use of Language in Spanish — The Certificate of Use of Language in Spanish, or CELU (Certificado de Español: Lengua y Uso), is an exam designed to determine the level of proficiency in the Spanish language. This exam can be taken by anyone whose mother language is not… …
2Language revitalization — is the attempt by interested parties, including individuals, cultural or community groups, governments, or political authorities, to recover the spoken use of a language that is endangered, moribund, or no longer spoken. Language death is the… …
3Language expectancy theory — (LET) is a language based theory of persuasion [M. Burgoon and Miller, 1985; M. Burgoon, Hunsaker Dawson, 1994; M. Burgoon, Jones Stewart, 1975)] . The theory looks at the effects of linguistic variations on persuasive messages. It is based on… …
4language — lan‧guage [ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] a system of speaking and writing used by people in one country or area: • the French language • Do you speak any foreign languages? • Trading in Europe means communicating in more than one… …
5Language transfer — (also known as L1 interference, linguistic interference, and crossmeaning) refers to speakers or writers applying knowledge from their native language to a second language. It is most commonly discussed in the context of English language learning …
6Language survey — Language surveys are conducted around the world for a variety of reasons, by a variety of agencies and people. *measuring people’s ability to speak and understand another language (usually community based, not school based) (multilingualism)… …
7Language immersion — is a method of teaching a second language (also called L2, or the target language). Unlike a more traditional language course, where the target language is simply the subject material, language immersion uses the target language as a teaching… …
8Language Preservation — strives to prevent languages from becoming unknown. This can happen when a language is no longer taught to younger generations, and the elderly people who do speak the language fluently die.Language is an important part of any society, because it …
9Language barrier — is a figurative phrase used primarily to indicate the difficulties faced when people, who have no language in common, attempt to communicate with each other. It may also be used in other contexts. Language barrier and communicationTypically,… …
10Language geography — is the branch of human geography that studies the geographic distribution of language or its constituent elements. There are two principal fields of study within the geography of language: the geography of languages , which deals with the… …
