Language in Society

What is an idiolect?

• A form of language spoken by a group of people.

• The language of an individual speaker.

• A collection of dialects

"Language are determined by political and social considerations".

• True

• False

What is an accent?

• It refers to the characteristics of speech that reveal in what country the speaker grew up.

• It refers to the characteristics of speech that reveal in what part of the country the speaker grew up

• It refers to the speach of non-native speakers, who have learned a language as a second language.

• All mentioned are correct.

Everybody has at least an informal and a formal style.

• True

• False

Slang is one mark of...

• A formal style

• An informal style

The synthetic approach focuses on the grammatical, phonological , lexical and funtional aspect of the units of the language.

• True

• False

Name the three methods use to teach reading: