Linguistic Anthropologists Find That People Who Are Forced to Abandon

question 55

Multiple Choice

Linguistic anthropologists find that people who are forced to abandon their native language and culture will __________.

• A) begin to lose their self-esteem
• B) eventually adopt English as their primary spoken language
• C) advance socially and economically
• D) regain their native language in subsequent generations

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Definitions:

Zone of Proximal Development

A concept in education and cognitive psychology referring to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can achieve with guidance and encouragement from a skilled partner.

Scaffolding

An educational approach where a more knowledgeable person provides support and gradually removes it as the learner becomes more competent.

Preoperational Thought

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children from about 2 to 7 years think symbolically but are not yet able to use logical operations.

Logical Operations

are mental processes involved in reasoning and thinking logically, especially in terms of categorization, seriation, and conservation, based on principles of consistency and non-contradiction.