ENG 6631 - Survey of Sociolinguistics for Second Language Teachers

3 Semester Hour(s)

Sociolinguistics is the study of how social, political, and educational factors affect language use. A range of Sociolinguistics topics are addressed from the perspective of language teaching: literacy, world Englishes, language standardization, language variation and change, multilingual education, language planning and policy, group identity/morality, and regional/social dialects.