Sentence examples for community language from inspiring English sources
noun
An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.
- Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on.
Until then, they are monolingual and can communicate only in their parents' mother tongue, having limited skills in the community language.
After all, for years educationalists have been recommending to families like mine, where both mum and dad speak the minority language, to communicate with their children only in their mother tongue and leave introducing the community language to the community itself.
His recent research has been focused on developing appropriate pedagogies for community language learners.
Teresa Tinsley, director, Alcantara Communications 3. Acknowledge – and challenge – the language hierarchy In schools, community language education provision is very different across languages and communities.
The social landlord introduced a community language honorarium for staff to reward and recognise bilingual staff who naturally used languages other than English routinely in their work.
It is a weapon in safeguarding the language and the towns and villages of Wales where Welsh is still a genuine community language.
Would championing community languages do anything to tackle Britain's languages crisis?
Should there be a push for more official qualifications in community languages?
She has a particular interest in community languages, and co-led an international research project into Europe's 'additional' languages.
Yaron Matras, professor of linguistics, The University of Manchester 2. Recognise the value of community languages outside the home Community languages are very well supported by their communities – but the value they bring is for the whole of society.
It is likely that it is one of these "community languages" that Farage heard on his journey.
