Sociolinguistic
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Loss of the Native Language Role of the Mother Tongue
Salam Raheem Rashid
Loss of the Native Language Role of the Mother Tongue: The Threat of the Second Language (English) to Overtake the First Language (Kurdish) is the title of my thesis. The rationale behind this title is to account for the influence English has on Kurdish in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Today in most of the private schools of KRI, the language of instruction is English. Including nursery, kindergarten, primary and secondary stages, this has not only made English the formal instruction language, but also the main language of communication among the students studying at these schools. The explanation the school administrators provide to justify this shift is not convincing. The resent work consists of two chapters. The first chapter, titled Failure of Learning English Effectively in the public Schools, is dedicated to the methods of Second Language learning through school curriculums. We argue that these methods of have not been given the required importance in the public schools. The second chapter, Loss of the Native Language Role of the Mother Tongue, is a theoretical account of the threats English is losing on Kurdish in KRI through the curricula the private and exemplary schools are using.
Volume 9 · Issue 4 · September 2022Methods of Threat and Violence in The Kurdish Language
Nawzad Anwar Omar, Bahar Khdir Ibrahim
This study which is entitled (Methods of Threat and Violence in the Kurdish Language). The method of threat and violence is one of the attitudes that one uses several times a day, or is used against them. This study is a step towards getting familiar with threats and violence, so that individuals in the community get acquainted with the subject and deal with it in a fair and accurate manner. Because any mistakes could have dreadful consequences also it has a direct effect on individuals. The first part explains the relationship between language and society, the concepts and definitions of social language, languages relationship to race, age, religion and culture, and personality. The second part discusses the concepts, definitions, types of the methods and languages, types of threats and causes of them; the concepts, definitions, types and causes of the use of violence and the sources of violence. The relation between gender and age on using threats, as well as using threats and violence depending on the levels of language.