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When we speak about the sociolinguistic context of a specific place, we are speaking about the social and cultural context of a language spoken in that place.

Plurilingualism, refers to people that it’s able to use several languages, having linguistic knowledge and skills to communicate with others in many different situations.

Referring to the features of my sociolinguistic context, In Basque Country there are two official languages: Basque and Spanish. In Arrasate, my hometown, more that half population is Basque. Taking into account the kids, the 90% have the Basque ability but only the 49% uses Basque in the streets.

Each school, has a different school language project. Depending where the school is located, which language is used in that area and which language is more relevant in the school, the language project would be different. At the same time, language project is related to curricular project. That means that depending the school, Basque and Spanish will be considered in the same level or not.

I think is really important, to know which is the sociolinguistic context of the place where I live or the place where I am going to work, in order to respond the needs. A prospective teacher should know, among other things, which is the school language project, which language has importance and how to deal with it.

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I am not sure of the following statement, because I don't know anything of sociolinguistic context but I think it is the descriptive study of society on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society.

Plurilingualism is the capacity of individuals to use more than one language in social communication whatever their command of those languages.  This set of skills constitutes the complex but unique competence, in social communication, to use different languages for different purposes with different levels of command.

Another plurilingualism definition: Plurilingualism is the knowledge of a number of languages and the co-existence of them in a given society.

I live in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Vitoria has around 244.634 residents. Most of the population speaks Spanish, so I can say that it is the main language of the city. Most young people know Basque because they learn it in the school, but the reality is that then in the street, with their friends etc they don't use Basque. I think that the main reasons are because they don't have the habit and because of the embarrassment they feel. In my opinion, they think that they don't speak well or properly because they compare themselves with other people for whom their mother tongue is Basque. Of course there are lots of differences, but it isn't bad.

School Language Project must have innovative teacher development to create brighter futures through language.

Like my partners, I think it is so important to know well our sociolinguistic context. In addition to this, I think it is really important too to dominate Spanish, Basque and English properly, because in the future schools are going to be trilingual.
Besides, we have to focus on how the linguistic features of interactions are affected by the social context in which the interaction takes place.

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Sociolinguistic context: The sociolinguistic context studies the presence of languages which are used in a specific territory, region, town, village or neighborhood.

Plurilingualism: Plurilingualism is the capacity to use in different contexts two or more languages.

What are the features of our sociolinguistic context? In the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) two languages are the official ones, but one of those languages (Basque) is less used and valuated than the other language (Castilian) by most of the people. Specifying a little bit, in Donostia the Castilian is more used than the Basque, but it seems that young people are making progressions in the use of Basque language. I believe is taking strength because of the decisive labor schools are doing in order to promote Basque.

How are these concepts related to the School Language Project? Schools have to adapt to the sociolinguistic context in order to develop as well as it is possible both official languages and a third one. And keeping in mind that in BAC basque language is not used in a lot of situations (for example in the street, shops, etc.), the School Language Project has to give more importance to basque, because without working Castilian at school, children are going to learn it with no problem. In case of the foreign language, Donosti for example is very touristic town, but its presence is very low, so the school language project has to encourage this language to.

Why do you need to deal with this type of content as a prospective teacher? How does it contribute to your professional profile and development? It is very important to know very well the environment you are going to work in because teachers have to adapt to that environment. For example in some little villages of Gipuzkoa, Basque is very used, so maybe the teacher does´t have to motivate children to speak Basque because is their usual language to communicate, and, on the contrary, in Altza for example (neighbourhood of Donostia) the teacher may motivate children to speak Basque at least at school, and the school language project may defend the activities organized out of school, which they have the aim of promote Basque, etc.

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More or less, I can get the idea of what sociolinguistic context means. In my words, this term is related to the study of how people use language in their everyday lives. Depending on the social mass, culture, and the different languages, the sociolinguistic context will be in one way or another.

On the other hand, Plurilingualism is a term used to discuss situations in which a person has communicative abilities in more than one language.

Features of my sociolinguistic context;  In the Basque Country we can find a special sociolinguistic context. Nowadays we have two “official” languages: Basque and Spanish. Regarding to my personal sociolinguistic context, I live in Legazpi (Gipuzkoa) and has around 9000 inhabitants. Most of the population know how to speak in Basque, but in the last years the tendency is to speak in spanish.  This aspect is being worked very hard from the schools and the city council, working with different projects to promote the use of Euskera.

At the same time,  this aspect is related with the School language project. During the last days, I am informing myself at school about the school language project document and I am realizing the importance it has. In this case, Euskera is the dominant language, but it is working a lot with other languages, as well as Spanish, English, French ... It is very important.

Through this module, I hope to clarify all my doubts about school project language and to realize the importance that it has. As a prospective teacher, I think we must be aware of the importance of the linguistic context of the school, and of course, of each student. In this way, we will be able to work properly and help the development of each student.

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Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, in terms of sociolinguistic context is the area where different languages and cultures are influencing each other.

Plurilingualism is the ability to understand and speak in more than two different languages, having the strengh to change languages without any problem.

Refering to the features of my sociolinguistic context, the case of the Basque Country is cute different. In spit of "euskara" is the official language, we have another "official" one: Spanish. And despite that the most part of students study in the model D, lot of them speak in Spanish. For example in Sestao, the town where I am from, the 97% speaks in Spanish. In my case, fortunatly I speak in Basque with my parents and boyfriend, but I speak in Spanish with my friends. Is for that, we have to fostering the Basque language. An of course, nobody uses English as an everyday language.

Regarding to the School Language Project, I think that in the Basque Country we need a special one. I mean that taking into account that nowadays English in a language that we need, the School Language Project must to focus on it. Even so, we can´t forget Basque, because as I underlined before, the fostering of Basque is needed here.

At last, I would like to remark that this topic is really useful and necessary in my near future. I am a teacher and for the moment I have unfortunately not found the balance of the three languages (Basque, English and Spanih) in our education, so I hope to clarify something else in this subject.

LET´S DO IT!

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·       Sociolinguistic context refers to the differences of the society we live and the language we speak. Those aspects are part of our identity.

·       Plurilingualism refers to a place or community where more than two languages are spoken.

·       What are the features of our sociolinguistic context? In the Basque Country we can find a special sociolinguistic context. Nowadays we have two “official” languages: Basque and Spanish. Not long ago, basque was in a really important risk, because someone thought that people who spoke basque were less than the Spanish speakers. Nowadays, we are in a better situation, but we still have a lot to do. I live in Oiartzun and fortunately the main language most people use to communicate is basque. We an learn in basque, go to the doctor, to do the shopping… using only basque, but it isn’t like that in other towns or cities.

·       How are these concepts related to the School Language Project?  Think that each sociolinguistic context need a different School Language Project which reflects our particular society. For example, in our case we have txo official languages, so have to educate and teach children taking into account that. They have to have similar skills in both languages. Apart of that, in nowadays society English also is a really important aspect, so this is also an other aspect to focus.

·       Why do you need to deal with this type of content as a prospective teacher? How does it contribute to your professional profile and development? As a teacher, it is essential to know about our sociolinguistic context and the different situations about each children have respect the language: what is their mother or main language… In addition, taking into account that in our society English is more and more important, maybe in some years we will be speaking about plurilingualism, so we have to start thinking how to  deal with this situation.

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Sociolinguistic context is  the study of how language serves and is shaped by the social nature of human beings. It examines the interplay of language and society.

Plurilingualism means that have the ability to understand and comunicate in more than two languages.

In my case, I live in Beasain. Two languages are spoken, Spanish and Basque. Basque, which is supposed to be the main language of the region, is understood and spoken by most people. However, unfortunately, Spanish is used more than Basque. Therefore, it is not weird to hear people speaking in Spanish more than in Basque, both young and old.

So, we have to take into account that in the place where we live the Spanish has a great influence in the Basque lands, because it is also in our sociolinguistic context.
In addition, apart from these two languages there are more languages and cultures that you come from other countries. This occur because of the immigration and we have to respect them too.

Given all this, it will be necessary for the school to be able to face this situation and seek a solution so that all students feel integrated.

Finally, as a prospective teacher, I think it would be necessary to identify the skills of the students. Apart from teaching them the official languages of where they live, it will be necessary to show them other languages, and more if these languages are spoken by their peers. For this, we will have to inform us of all this before we can teach them.

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Sociolinguistic context is concerned with language in social and cultural context, especially how people with different social identities (e.g. gender, age, race, ethnicity, class) speak and how their speech changes in different situations

Plurilingualism is a situation wherein a person who has competence in more than one language can switch between languages according to the circumstances at hand for the purpose of coping with a social matter.

I live in Ordizia. Most of the population understands Basque, children and young speak very good Basque, some adult too. In general I think that if you only speak Basque you can communicate and understand everything in Ordizia.

As we live in a town with different nationalities, we have different languages among us which we have to respect. With all this in mind, the teacher has to use good resources when she/he is organizing the School Language Project.

To finish, I think I need to know more about this topic to work on it better in the future. It is important to know better the students and their environment, to offer them a complete education and to create a good Language Project.

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The linguistic context refers to the place, population where a language is used. That is to say what is the predominant language or with greater force in an area, where different cultures coexist.

Multilingualism means when a person or a community is able to express itself in several languages.

I live in Lekeitio, Lekeitio has 7500 inhabitants. Most or most of the population speaks Basque and the one who does not speak it understands it. It is true that in recent years the population has changed because of immigration, which is why different cultures and even languages coexist with Basque.

I think it is a very important aspect, since as I said although the languages with greater strength are the Basque and Spanish, together with English, in the last years are many girls and boys enrolled of different nationalities. For this reason I believe that in schools must be considered that in education today must have more cavity apart from official languages.

As a prospective teacher I think it is a topic related to our work and our day to day. That is why our duty as teachers is to educate and raise awareness that although the Basque language is predominate in this case, in the context in which we live speak more languages than ours and we must respect them. We must make them understand that even though we talk differently, we are all the same.

Ander Astoreka

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The sociolinguistic context is a set of languages and cultures in a specific area that influence each other.
Plurilingualism means that many languages are spoken.

Our sociolinguistic context is related by different languages and traditions. There are two official languages: Basque and Spanish, but there are more languages in our country (portuguese, moroccan...). Those languages influence in a different way depending on their use, if we speak more in Basque we are more influenced by Basque culture, but we are still influenced by Spanish because is on our sociolinguistic area.

Knowing this the school must be prepared to deal with this situation and find a solution to work the languages to everyone feel integrated.

As a prospective teacher we need to identify the needs of children and some of them are related with language. We need to teach our official languages to the children, but also we must to show them there are more languages in our area and to respect and learn something about them. So before teach things like that we need to learn about and find a good way to teach them, because it is very important be respectful about other languages.

Aida Alcaide

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The "sociolinguistic context" refers to the linguistic features a population in a certain area has. For example, the languages spoken by the inhabitants of the region, the relationship between those languages or the attitude towards them.

Prurilingualism means being able to understand and communicate in more than two languages.

I live in Amorebieta and I work in Bilbo. Those two contexts are completely different. In Amorebieta most of the population understands and communicates in Basque while in Bilbao, although the vast majority can understand Basque, their mother tongue is Spanish and they don't feel Basque as a relevant language.

In consequence, taking into account that as it is stated in the curriculum, both Basque and Spanish (and a foreign language) must be developed, this reality implies the need of a deep examination and a well organized School Language Project which will provide the teachers with the appropriate tools for integrated language teaching.

Finally, I belive I need to know a lot more about our sociolinguistic context, theories and experiences on language teaching in multilingual societies and how to integrate and balance the use of three languages at school. These kowledges will lead me to a better understanding and the develpoment of strategies to get my students involved in their learning processes as well as to being able to contribute to my school's Language Project.

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I think that Sociolinguistic  is concerned with language in social and cultural context, especially how people with different social identities speak and how their speech changes in different situations. I understand this term as how people use language in their everyday lives

Concerned to Plurilingualism I understand like the ability to use different languages, using that knowledge or skills to communicate with the others.

I live in Urretxu and the population here is about 6000 people. I am not sure of how many  The number of Basque speakers is about 3500, and most of them know very well the spoken and written skills. The others are Spanish speakers. The mother tongue of about 1500 people is Basque.

It is very important to concrete the school language project in our case based on Basque language, and also Spanish and English, to know how  languages would be learnt-taught and the use they are going to do.

I think that it is very important  for us, as teachers, to know about our sociocultural context , to make a good job  at the school to respond all the needs. Because of the fact that we will have students with different nationalities and we will be forced to adapt most of the times our language to make the understanding easier. So we have to be aware of the importance of doing a good language project.

Oihane Mediavilla.