Bilingualism in Colombia

According to Halliday (1974), he establishes three main functions of the language in SFL, which are they?

• Ideational, interpersonal and textual

• Identity, relational and ideational

Answer explanation

Identity, relational and ideational were proposed by Fairclough (1992, 2003)

What are the firts 2 steps used in the data collection methodology based on Fairclough’s?

• -A categorization of my findings.

  -A close examination of data by reading and re reading the document.

• -An extensive review of literature about bilingualism, particularly from a sociolinguistic perspective. This was very important to confront what I found in the data with the literature on bilingualism.

  -A close examination of data by reading and re reading the document.

• -A fine grained analysis of sentences and paragraphs to unveil assumptions.

  -A search of other sources to confront my interpretation of data

Why do you think that the population is more interested in learning a second language such as English, and not the native indigenous languages of Colombia as mentioned in the research?

What were the fields that helped to examine the issues about bilingualism mentioned in the text?

• Psycholinguistics

• Linguistics and SLA

• Sociolinguistics

• Education

Answer explanation

All the options are correct

How Bloomfield (1933) defines bilingualism?

• Tha ability to manage two languages

• The manage of two languages

• As the native-like control of two languages.

• The process of acquire two languages

For you, what does it mean Language Profiency?

Answer explanation

Language proficiency is an individual's ability to use language with a level of precision that transfers meaning in production and comprehension.

What were the main theories of the research analysis?

• Both

• Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

• Symbolic Power