| This course introduces language within its social context through dealing with topics such as dialect and language definition, the role of the mother tongue in defining self-identity, language attitudes, the maintenance, loss, shift or spread of language domains, multilingualism, and sociolinguistic survey. Also, as a means of helping students develop realistic expectations and appropriate approaches for linguistic issues in cross-cultural field work, attention is given to an overview of language study within a world view context, to sociolinguistic factors affecting literacy programs and to methods of second language acquisition.
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