PRAXIS: MULTICULTURAL POPULATIONS

acculturation

process of which immigrants assume the culture of the country they have moved to.

assimilation

process of incorporating host societies beliefs and norms into the immigrant’s life.

AAE characteristics

omission of noun possessive/plural (that the woman car/bag of apple)

omission of 3rd person singular marker (she walk to school)

omission of to be (copula)

present tense regardless of person/number (you is smart)

past tense omitted (he live[d] in cali)

“any” substituted for “none”

pronoun restates subject (my brother, he surprise me)

ARTIC: /f/ for thetas, /l/ omitted (tool = too), /t/ instead of voiceless theta at start of word, consonant cluster reduction, metathesis (aks),

Spanish-English artic characteristics

/b/ and /v/ substitutions

final consonant being devoiced

/ch/ and /sh/ substitutions

“dis” and “zat”

schwa before initial consonant clusters

trilled /r/

y for /j/

/t/ for voiceless theta

Spanish-English language characteristics

adjective after noun (the house green is big)

plural/possessive/third person /s/ is often omitted (five plate/the girl book)

omitted past tense ed

double negatives

adverb follows verb (he drives very fast his motorcycle)

articles used with body parts (bruised the knee)

articles omitted (papa is going to store)

Asain-English language characteristics

omission of plurals, possessives, copula (he going home now), and past tense morpheme

double negatives

past tense double marking (he didn’t went by himself)

misuse of pronouns

SVO relationship (i messed up it)

omission of conjunctions and prepositions