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  2. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  3. Language learning strategies - Wikipedia

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    Language learning strategies is a term referring to the actions that are consciously deployed by language learners to help them learn or use a language more effectively. [1] [2] They have also been defined as "thoughts and actions, consciously chosen and operationalized by language learners, to assist them in carrying out a multiplicity of tasks from the very outset of learning to the most ...

  4. Translanguaging - Wikipedia

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    Canagarajah determined that teachers should encourage students to use different languages in their writing and show them how to do it effectively by studying a Saudi Arabian student's essay writing and finding that she used different strategies like changing the context, expressing her own voice, interacting with others, and organizing her writing.

  5. Vocabulary learning - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary learning types and low-frequency are important components in a vocabulary teaching program. The two major types of vocabulary learning are deliberate and low-frequency. It is important to treat these types as complementary -rather than mutually exclusive- by using different vocabulary learning strategies and their combinations.

  6. Second language writing - Wikipedia

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    Second language writing is the study of writing performed by non-native speakers/writers of a language as a second or foreign language.According to Oxford University, second language writing is the expression of one's actions and what one wants to say in writing in a language other than one's native language.

  7. Language planning - Wikipedia

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    Along with language ideology and language practices, language planning is part of language policy – a typology drawn from Bernard Spolsky's [3] theory of language policy. According to Spolsky, language management is a more precise term than language planning.

  8. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    The development of communicative language teaching was bolstered by these academic ideas. Before the growth of communicative language teaching, the primary method of language teaching was situational language teaching, a method that was much more clinical in nature and relied less on direct communication. In Britain, applied linguists began to ...

  9. Variety (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For scholars who view language from the perspective of linguistic competence, essentially the knowledge of language and grammar that exists in the mind of an individual language user, the idiolect, is a way of referring to the specific knowledge. For scholars who regard language as a shared social practice, the idiolect is more like a dialect ...