LANGUAGE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES

What is the primary goal of a bilingual education program?

• Teach only the dominant language

• Develop proficiency in two languages

• Discourage the use of minority languages

• Replace students’ home language

Which language policy promotes the use of a single official language in government and education?

• Multilingual policy

• Monolingual policy

• Plurilingual policy

• Complementary policy

What does the term "language maintenance" refer to?

• The process of learning a new language

• Efforts to preserve and continue use of a minority language

• Switching languages depending on context

• Abandoning one's native language

What is a lingua franca?

• A language used as a common means of communication by speakers of different native languages

• A dialect used in rural areas

• An extinct language

• A language learned only in schools

What is the main characteristic of additive bilingualism?

• The addition of a second language without losing the first

• Replacing the mother tongue with another language

• Learning languages separately

• Mixing languages in speech

Which of the following is a common challenge faced in multilingual education?

• Lack of materials in minority languages

• High student motivation

• Excessive government funding

• Uniform teacher training

What is the purpose of language immersion programs?

• To teach students exclusively in their native language

• To develop proficiency by teaching subjects in a target language

• To separate speakers of different languages

• To discourage bilingualism

The concept of "language shift" is best described as:

• A sudden change in grammar rules

• The process whereby a speech community shifts from using one language to another

• The creation of a new dialect

• Learning a foreign language

What is the main focus of a mother tongue-based multilingual education policy?

• Early education in the student's first language

• Teaching only the national language

• Teaching only foreign languages

• Using only the dominant language in classrooms

What is the principle of "linguistic human rights"?

• The right to choose the language for communication, education, and cultural expression

• The obligation to learn the official language

• The right to ignore minority languages

• The requirement to speak multiple languages