Language
Essential Skills1.Explain how globalization of language is influencing cultural interactions and change.
2.Describe how communication technologies (e.g. the Internet) are reshaping and accelerating interactions among people and places. 3.Describe how communication technologies (e.g. the Internet) are changing cultural practices (e.g. use of English, loss of indigenous languages.) 4.Explain how regional patterns of language contribute to a sense of place, enhance placemaking, and shape the global cultural landscape. 5.Discuss how language patterns and distributions can be represented on maps, charts and language trees. 6.Describe how language is essential to understanding landscapes symbolic of cultural identity (e.g. signs, architecture, sacred sites.) 7.Discuss language families and dialects diffuse from cultural hearths, resulting in interactions between local and global forces that lead to new forms of cultural expression (e.g. lingua franca, pidgin). 8.Explain how cultural landscapes are amalgamations of physical features, agriculture, and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, and other expressions of culture (e.g. architecture.) |
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KBATs and Maps
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