Enrichment Lesson Catalog
Snap Language offer lessons in a variety of language- and linguistics related topics.
Lessons in this area are designed to help you improve your understanding of linguistics.
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Accents and idiolects: There is more to what an “accent” is than just a way that people sound. Idiolects are the speech habits
unique to a particular person. Both accents and idiolects have social and cultural components with several implications.
Sociolinguistics (and the basics of language attitudes): what sociolinguistics is and some of the language-related phenomena
sociolinguists study. It includes a discussion of how language and language varieties trigger and stereotyped perceptions and attitudes.
Stereotyped perceptions of accented, grammatically non-standard speakers: Learn how listeners extract relevant
social information from phonological, syntactical, and lexical speech cues in a process that triggers stereotyped perceptions of speakers.
Grammar
Grammar Series is a 5-part series discussing topics ranging from
what grammar is for a linguist and the historical perspective on standard grammar to issues with traditional grammar and the
so-called feud between prescriptivists and descriptivists.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Builder is a series of short, stunning
videos on advanced vocabulary at C1-C2 level and GRE level.
The Snap Language channel on YouTube has a complete reading course on video. Start from
the “Vocabulary in Reading” playlist and watch each video, which range in topics from understanding the paragraph to interpreting what you read and
reading critically.