This can be through political, social or economic strategies. According to Skutnabb- Kangas (....) “All official languages are potential threats to indigenous and minority languages, but English is the killer language over all others” Linguicism is the term to define these situation where a language or a dialect is privileged as the official or standar one...
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Phillipson (....) explains that linguicism “ It exist among and between speakers of a language, when on dialect is privileged as a ‘standard’. Linguicism exist between speakers of different languages in processes of resource allocation, of the vindication or vilification in discourse of one language rather than another- such as ‘English as the language of modernity and progress’...
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Teaching Language In The United States English is taught as a separate subject" (Exploring Language 254). The problem resulting from this is that it is unable to tell if a minority child has learned enough English to be placed in entirely English speaking classes, therefore some minority children are kept in "native language classes for six years" (Exploring Language 254)...	2 / 560
Teaching Language In The United States English is taught as a separate subject" (Exploring Language 254). The problem resulting from this is that it is unable to tell if a minority child has learned enough English to be placed in entirely English speaking classes, therefore some minority children are kept in "native language classes for six years" (Exploring Language 254)...	2 / 560
Should English be Official Language of US It really serves no purpose because America will still be a diverse country with people who speak different languages. Not to mention, who wants to have an official language that originated in a place that Americans fought against for our freedom?	2 / 340
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