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1. Course : Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching
Lecturer: Sophorn Sopheak
Presenters: Mr. Sran Louth
Mr. Roeurn Kosal
TESOL June 2018
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សាកលវិទ្យាល័យបាត់ដំបង
University of Battambang

2. Language variation: Perspectives for
teacher
Johnna s. DeSteFAno
Victor M. Rentel
College of education
The Ohio state university

3. What is language variation?
Language Variation refers to the various forms of
language triggered by social factors.
Language may change from region to region, one
social class to another, individual to individual, and
from situation to situation. This actual changes result
in the varieties of language.

4. Example: When teachers choose among competing
educational values, they must examine carefully
their own beliefs about language before deciding
upon a proper course for improving children’s
effectiveness with language.

5. Language variation
 Geographical Variation
 Aspects of Variation
 Factors in Regional Differences
 Social Variation
◦ Black English
 Register
◦ Register Acquisition
 Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher

6. Geographical variation
What is geographical variation?
Geographical variation refers to differences among
populations in genetically based traits across the
natural geographic range of a species.
The study of geographically constrained varieties, or
dialects as they are often called, is an old one in
linguistics.

7. Hans Kurath began the study of American dialects
with the publication of his Linguistic Atlas of New
England and these atlases, as well as others
followed during the present century, show the
geographical distribution of linguistic form.
Geographical variation (Con’t)

8. Aspects of Variation
What are the aspects of variation?
-Vocabulary
-Pronunciation
-Syntax and morphology
-Indices

9. Factors in regional differences
Several factors account for regional
differences
 Static
 Origin of the region’s in habitants.
 Migration routes
 Language diffusion

10. Social variation
What is social variation?
Social variation is the pattern of language use
which characterize groups of speakers who share
similar background represent a critical.
Sociolect refers to variation across social classes
(socio-economic status, culture, educational level,
gender, age, ethnicity etc.,

11. Black English
What is black English?
Black English, African American Vernacular English,
African American English refers to any of various
forms of English spoken by black people, especially as
an urban dialect in the US Black English.
Much more is recently known about the dialect-become-
sociolect called Black English.

12. Nature of black English
The most different form features of black English are
intonation patterns and vocabulary.
Example: Black English Standard American
English
Homeboy A good friend
crib home
celly Cellphone
krunk Exciting
foxes Good-looking woman
Ruf (f) Ruth (ɵ)
She know English. She knows English.
He hasn’t got any. He ain’t got none.

13. Register
What is a register?
A register is a variety of a language used for a particular
purpose or in a particular social setting. The speakers
make changes in their language when the circumstances
they are in change.

14. Three registers have been conceptualized as
being governed by the intersection.
1. Field of discourse refers to the area of operation of
the language activity or subject or what is being
discussed.
2. Mode of discourse refers to oral or written.
3. Style of discourse refers to language constrained by
role relationship between speaker and listener or writer
and reader.

15. Register acquisition
Adult and child register repertoires differ both in kind and in
degree of mastery.
In the acquisition of both syntax and semantics, it is
hypothesized that children progressively develop and revise
sets of “rules ” through differentiation of the input till they
reach the level of adult abilities.

16. Language instruction register (LIR)
Downing (1970) found that some first-year British primary
school children’s concepts of word and sound did not match
the teacher’s.
Douglas Barnes (1966), who reports on a Math Instruction
Register, expressed some of the same concerns about the
teacher’s use of vocabulary not understood by his or her
students

17. Perspective for the classroom teacher
What are perspectives for the classroom
teacher?
-Language differences and often attribute great
important to students.
-Variation in language is natural.
- Language Conservation

18. Perspective for the classroom teacher
(Con’t)
-Standard variety of American
English
-Variation in language is systematic

19. Thanks for
paying attention!
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