LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Code-Switching, Divergent Thinking, Convergent Thinking

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Clifford Burgess

Document Summary

Reading: chapter 11 and j. cenoz iragui article in syllabus. Bilingualism: where two languages are acquired in childhood. Language test results only allow inferences; they are not facts in and of themselves. Additive bilingualism is something like learning french in british columbia. Subtractive bilingualism is when, for example, spanish-speaking learners of english are actively pressured to get rid of their spanish. Weird one-off studies (e. g. one such study claimed that bilingualism caused stuttering) The stigma of semi-literacy attached to codeswitching (although this ability gives bilinguals a flexibility in speaking that monolinguals lack) (cid:862)plusses(cid:863) to (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:271)ili(cid:374)gual: Enhanced divergent thinking ability (iq tests focus on convergent thinking) Two words used interchangeably, but there is a difference between the two. Interlanguage: refers to a se(cid:272)o(cid:374)d la(cid:374)guage; lear(cid:374)ers" i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plete syste(cid:373) of (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)s that is influenced by both the native language and the target language. An interlanguage is systematic, there is (cid:374)o su(cid:272)h thi(cid:374)g as a (cid:862)wild grammar .