backgrounds or physical abilities. The move to recognize and promote
cultural diversity is known as multiculturalism. Many countries contain
minority groups of many different cultural, religious, and linguistic back-
grounds, but promote only the culture of the dominant group in curriculum,
teaching materials, the media, etc. Proponents of the status of diversity seek
acknowledgement of cultural diversity throughout society, the encourage-
ment of tolerance, the need to redress past discrimination against minorities,
and the creation of a more tolerant society.DO n
an abbreviation for direct objector object relative clause
see noun phrase accessibility hierarchy
document analysis n
see documentary analysis
documentary analysis n
(in qualitative research) the collection and analysis of documents at
a research site as part of the process of building a grounded theory.
The documents collected may be private or public, primary documents
(e.g. letters, diaries, reports) or secondary documents (e.g. transcribed and
edited diaries), and both solicited and unsolicited documents.
dogme ELT n
a term taken from the film industry (dogme) and used to support the
language teaching principle that the classroom should be rid of excessive
materials and resources in order to focus on the inner life of the student and
real communication.
domain^1 n
an area of human activity in which one particular speech variety or a
combination of several speech varieties is regularly used. A domain can
be considered as a group of related speech situations(see speech event).
For instance, situations in which the persons talking to one another are
members of the family, e.g. mother and children, father and mother,
elder sister and younger sister, would all belong to the Family Domain.
In bilingualand multilingualcommunities, one language may be used
in some domains and another language in other domains. For example,
Puerto Ricans in the USA may use Spanish in the Family Domain and
English in the Employment Domain.
see also diglossia, speech event
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