The term second language refers to a language in which instruction in other school subjects is carried on or that serves as a common language for speakers of diverse language groups, as English does in India or French in Guinea.
Linguistic competence refers to language skills in the person's native language as well as the linguistic code of the symbol system selected.
Language content referring to language content Example: Agent describes what it has heard or read.
The term dialect refers to language characteristic of a certain geographic area or social class.
The project's Web site, which counts thousands of registered members, refers to language as "one of the main contributors to the digital divide" in India.
Affect refers to language resources for expressing emotions.
In the L2 motivation literature, instrumentality generally refers to language learners' perceptions about the benefits of attaining L2 proficiency (Csizér and Dörnyei, 2005, p. 21).
bThis refers to language of communication with the participants for the purposes of the study.
Classroom discourse often refers to language-in-use that teachers and students employ to communicate with each other (Cazden 2001; Gee 2004b; Rymes 2015).
Analysis of a clinical population referred for language analysis in terms of background variables and extent of language problems.
In so doing one may refer to language (in general) as one's object of study.
