Welcome to Language Maps, Language Clouds!
Intrigued by language diversity and awareness, our team is interested in learning about language awareness among American college students and how they talk about them. Our goal is to think of language as something that always surrounds us, immersive, patterned and understandable. We seek to describe language awareness by exploring distinctions between proficiency and familiarity, by inquiring into domains where students encounter languages not their own, and inviting respondents to use “ordinary language” in the form of everyday speech or informal writing. Beginning with the invitation to “list all the languages that you know,” we seek to learn the different levels of knowing that can encompass reading, writing, understanding, speaking or identifying.
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