1. answer the questions below about second language acquisition articles
and reading materials attached
Joseph, Ogbu, Bucholtz, Defina, Block and KingingerEXERCISE 1. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAGgKE82034EXERCISE 2. Read Joseph (2016), and
answer the following questions:Does USA have an official language?Check your answer
here: https://usconstitution.net/consttop_lang.htmlWere you surprised? What is your
position about this?What does this tell about the idea of linking language with the concept
of nation?e) Researchers think that the link between language and identity could be
interpreted as: (1) constructed intersubjectively, or (2) context-contingently. Explain these
ideas using your own words.EXERCISE 3. Watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3hRq2RnNIEXERCISE 4. Read Ogbu’s article,
and:1)Define the following terms (do some research if you need it):-Ebonics-Dialect-
Language-Slang-Code-switching-Diglossia-Bilingualism2) Summarize the complaints and
also the solutions that the parents suggest to solve this problem, and give your opinion
about each of them. I will collect your response for this question. Write at least 350/400
words.EXERCISE 5. Read Bucholtz and Defina’s articles, and answer the following
questions;1. Define practice theory. Why might this be a useful tool for someone who is
studying linguistics and speech?2. Based on the readings, how do you think language is
affected by a person social identity (jock, burnout, or nerd)?3. When considering
someone’s social status/standing during interaction, to what extent should language be
considered in our judgement and used to place that individual within a certain social
group?EXERCISE 6. Read Kinginger’s article, and answer the following questions:1)
What factors had the biggest negative impact on Alice’s foreign language learning
experience in your opinion? What could have been done to prepare Alice so that these
factors would have had less of a negative effect on her?2) How does Alice’s story
exemplify the importance of intercultural competence? After reading about Alice, do you
think American education should place more emphasis on teaching intercultural
competence?3) How do first person accounts of language learning help others identify with
and prepare for their own language journey? Give an example using Alice’s
story.EXERCISE 7. Read Block’s chapters (4 and 5), and the following article, and:1)
Explain (350 words) which ones of these recommendations you practice when you are
exposed to another culture: https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/ways-reduce-
homesickness-abroad2. Read again the Australian conversation and the French

2. conversation about how to ask/respond when a work colleagues talk about their weekends
on page 114. What would it happen if in the Australian conversation, M (the person
responding), answers the questions the way French people do? What would it happen, if in
the French conversation, M answers the way Australians answer?3. Write a dialogue
(including information about gestures (shaking hands), and personal space) for the
following situations in your native culture/language:Situation 1: You are talking to your
advisor when another professor joins the conversation, and your advisor introduces you to
the other professor.Situation 2: You are at a party, and a friend of yours wants to introduce
you to another person. 4.True or false? Learning to speak a foreign language is a matter of
adopting foreign norms. Explain!5. Read again page 117. What is the difference between
cross-cultural and inter-cultural learning?NOTE: THESE ARE VERY LENGTHY READINGS.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THE ENTIRE THING. JUST SKIM AND FIND WHAT YOU NEED
TO WRITE AN ANSWER. THESE ARE NOT ESSAY QUESTIONS.(Ogbu)
https://acebb.evansville.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-538576-dt-content-rid-
3107338_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Ogbu%202017%20ebonics%20and%20identity.pdf(Joseph)
https://acebb.evansville.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-538576-dt-content-rid-
3107338_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Ogbu%202017%20ebonics%20and%20identity.pdf(Bucholtz)
https://acebb.evansville.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-538577-dt-content-rid-
3107339_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Bucholtz%201999%20Why%20be%20normal%20%20language%20a
nd%20gender.pdf(Defina) https://acebb.evansville.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-538577-dt-
content-rid-3107339_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Bucholtz%201999%20Why%20be%20normal%20%20language%20a
nd%20gender.pdf(Block ) https://acebb.evansville.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-538579-dt-
content-rid-3107341_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Block%202007%20Chapter%205.pdfhttps://acebb.evansville.edu/bbc
swebdav/pid-538580-dt-content-rid-3107342_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Block%202017%20Chapter%206.pdf(Kininger)
https://acebb.evansville.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-538581-dt-content-rid-
3107343_1/courses/TESL-200-
D01.2019FA.42013/Kinginger%202004%20Alice_doesnt_live_here_anymore_Foreign_l.pdf