Dominant and Non-Dominant Language, language dominance, Global phenomenon, bilingualism, balanced bilingualism, Dil se Dil tak, Gujrati girl, migrated people, Home language and Heritage language

1. Hema Goswami
Sem 3
Paper no. 12- English language teaching
Submitted to Department of English
MKBU
Enrollment no. 2069108420180020
Roll no. 13
email id- hemagoswami474@gmail.com
Year-2017-19
Dominant and Non-dominant
language

2. Language Dominance
• It refers to the degree of bilingualism, those who knows
two languages
• Three situations
i) Balanced bilingualism: A person knows both
languages equally well
ii) A person can exhibits greater control of one over
other
iii) In this case we consider first language to be
dominant over the other

3. What will happen when a pure Gujarati girl
speak Hindi
• Colors TV show: Dil se Dil
tak
• There is dominance of
native language over the
speech of Teni, when she
try to speak Hindi
• Her First language L1 is
dominant over other L2

4. Dominant and Non-dominant
language: Global Phenomenon
• Global measure of dominance
• Bilinguals are globally dominant in one
of their languages
• But still they did not know that some
domains in life are specific to a language
• Migrants
• Home language and heritage language
• Balanced hardly exist in reality

5. Different concept for migrated people
• Home language and heritage
language
• Dominated by the language which
is in power
• Balanced hardly exist in reality

6. Difference
Home language
• Acquisition of a language from
very early age and the person
achieves high amount of fluency
and proficiency in that language.
• Typically native language is a
dominant language for a speaker
Heritage language
• It is more associated with a
language in which
proficiency was sacrificed in
order to gain proficiency in
the dominant language in a
particular community

7. Education system
• Education system in
multilingual nations
Ignored Non-dominant
languages in favor of
the dominant language.
• Gross inequalities

8. Rise of Hinglish in India
• The language Hinglish involves hybrid
mixture of Hindi and English
• Not yet official language on census reports
• Lingua Franca: Widely used language in
Internet

9. English language: Dominant language
Advantage
• English fluency is socially
prestigious
• Important for job success
• Upward mobility
Disadvantage
• English fluency requires rich
and consistent language
exposure
• In India this is largely limited
to the urban upper class

10. Conclusion
• As per my experience as a M.A Part II students, I have
experienced the dominance of L2, whenever there is need of
welcoming any guest from outside or mostly have to converse
in L2.
• Therefore what we are learning today is also can be consider
as a dominant language.
• We are speaking mother tongue in home but learning L2
outside, because of its dominant power.
• In process of learning dominant language we cannot look at
non dominant, and we keep on ignoring it.

11. Works Cited
• Chand, Vineeta. "The rise and rise of Hinglish in India." The
conversation (2016).
• Cummins, Jim. "The entry and exit fallacy in bilingual fallacy."
NABE journal (1980): 25.
• Wikipedia contributors. "Heritage language learning." 25
september 2018. wikipedia the free encyclopedia. 1
november 2018
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heritage_langua
ge_learning&oldid=861101053>.