TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iv
LIST OF TABLES x
ABSTRACT xii
CHAPTER
ONE RATIONALE FOR STUDY I
Problem Statement .... 1
Introduction 2
Nonaffiliation : 3
Historical-Demographic Overview 3
Hypotheses and Research Questions 6
Hypothesis One 6
Hypothesis Two 6
Hypothesis Three 7
Delimitations
Definitions 8
Justification 9
TWO REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 12
Introduction 12
Ethnography in Second Language Acquisition 13
Education and Ethnography 14
The building of stereotypes 15
The removal of barriers 16
Sociolinguistics in Education and Second
Language Acquisition 18
Process and motivation 13
Measuring language proficiency 22
The relationship of language and intelli-
gence/academic achievement 24
The relationship of first language
proficiency to second language
acquisition 26
Summary of Important Findings in Ethnography
and Sociolinguistics in Second Language
Acquisition 28
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