22 Don’t be afraid to pass your first language, and accent, to your kids It could be their superpower. terms
aboriginal
noun
The native, indigenous people of a country are often called aboriginals.
Example: The Committee is concerned about the abolition of the Aboriginal.
ar: السكان الأصليين أو المحليين
australian aboriginal
noun
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands.
Example: He's an Australian Aboriginal elder, and he's also an artist.
ar: سكان أستراليا الأصليين
census data
noun
Information about the complete enumeration of a population
specifically : a periodic governmental enumeration of population.
Example: You can be sure about number of people on that site official government census data is correct.
ar: بيانات التعداد
cognitive decline
noun
the brain doesn't work as well as it used to.
Example: Walking is the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline.
ar: تراجع معرفي
cultural awareness
noun
to understand be sensitive to other cultures, beliefs, perceptions, and values.
Example: Aboriginal organizations improve cultural awareness in private sector companies.
ar: الوعي الثقافي
cultural influence
historical, geographical, and familial factors that affect assessment and intervention processes.
Example: Scientists believe that behavior is a very complex interaction of both biological and cultural influences.
ar: التأثير الثقافي
ethnic group
noun
Grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups such as a common set of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion, or social treatment within their residing area.
Example: The individual belonging to a minority group express himself in relation to his ethnic group.
ar: جماعة عرقية
foreign accent
noun
A way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region. But they use it in other regions.
Example: There are foreign accents from Canada, South Africa, Australia in USA.
ar: لكنة أجنبية
foreign language
noun
A language not commonly spoken in the country of the speaker.
Example: Language schools, teach French or German as a second foreign language.
ar: لغة أجنبية
linguistic diversity
noun
A specific measure of the density of language, or concentration of unique languages together. This diversity of covers varied types of traits including language family, grammar, and vocabulary.
Example: In education, the Organization focused its activities on education for peace, human rights and linguistic diversity.
ar: التنوع اللغوي
linguistic stereotyping hypothesis
noun
It holds that even brief samples of speech varieties associated with low-prestige groups can cue negative attributions regarding individual speakers.
ar: فرضية التنميط اللغوي
low-prestige group
noun
Low standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion.
Example: Learn because low-prestige group always do mistakes.
ar: جماعة متدنية المكانة - ذات هيبة أقل
migrant parents
noun
As one or more parent moving away from the place their children are living, for a minimum of 6 months.
Example: Border agents encountered a migrant parents at the border about 78,000 times in January, the highest number for that month in at least a decade.
ar: أباء مهاجرين
multilingual
adjective
Using or able to use several languages especially with equal fluency.
Example: More needs to be done for people with limited English, such as hiring bilingual interpreters and creating multilingual Web sites, applications, and helplines.
ar: متعدد اللغات
Multilingual Exposure
noun
The fact of experiencing languages or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place.
Example: Multilingual Exposure Improves Children’s Social Skills.
ar: التعرض لمتعددي اللغة
native language
noun
Language, or mother/father/parent tongue, is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.
.
Example: She also used the influence of her native language to create her own personalized language.
ar: اللغة الأم -اللغة المحلية
native speaker
noun
The language of the place where he or she was born as a child.
Example: Conversations between "a native speaker" and non-native speaker with different level of proficiency involve a process called 'negotiation of meaning'.
ar: متحدث قومي- متحدث محلي
peer pressure
noun
A feeling that one must do the same things as other people of one's age and social group.
Example: We should be fostering peer pressure the students to succeed.
ar: تأثير الأقران - ضغط الجماعة
playdate
noun
An expression primarily used in the US for an arranged appointment for children to get together for a few hours to play.
Example: We have a playdate with Wingspan and Banjo.
ar: موعد لعب
status quo
noun
The existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social or political issues.
Example: It is an ingenious method of maintaining the status quo and ceasing any thoughts of opposing happiness.
ar: الوضع الراهن - الوضع الحالي
Teo Chew
noun
A dialect of Chaoshan Min, a Southern Min language, that is spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world.
Example: most people in Hong Kong use Teo chew delicate.
ar: لهجة تيو سو الصينية
virtual playdate
it is online date by video call or other application. which accepted to see the other face.
Example: It is possible to have a successful virtual playdate—parents just need to follow their kid’s communication style.
