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Since the late 1930’s the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the United States has been working to promote native language literacy amo
Since the late 1930’s the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the United States has been working to promote native language literacy amo
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2014-04-23
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Since the late 1930’s the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the United States has been working to promote native language literacy among Indians. Indians were to be taught to read and write in their native language before being taught English. Studies in many cultures around the world demonstrate that children learn to read best in their mother tongue. Bilingual reading books and other educational materials were prepared in Navaho, Hopi, Siouan, Pueblo, and Papago languages. The difficulties were tremendous because many American Indian languages are distinctively different in structure from all other languages in the world. They do not have "words" in the sense that other languages do—as independent meaningful sound sequences that combine into "sentences". Their "sentences" are made by combining prefixes, infixes, and suffixes into what looks like one long word but is essentially the equivalent of our sentence. It is impossible, in other words, to make an Indian utterance that is not a sentence. In our sense, Indian languages do not have parts of speech, conjugations etc. The sentence is the smallest structure available to speakers of the language. Therefore bridging the translation gap between English and such language is a massive feat.
In most cases, Indian children need to be bilingual though not necessarily be literate. That is, they need to speak their native language to participate fully in their home and tribal affairs. But, they do not need to read and write that language. On the other hand, they also need a reading, writing, and speaking knowledge of English, not only to get their due in this country but, ironically, also to preserve their heritage.
Mistakes that would be impossible to make in the Indian languages are______.
选项
A、punctuation errors
B、spelling errors
C、incomplete sentences
D、inappropriate word choice
答案
C
解析
这是一道细节题。文中第一段倒数第四句说:“换句话说,让一个印第安人说出一个不完整的句子是不可能的。”也就是说,任何一个印第安人讲出的话都是完整的句子,所以也就不会有错误的句子存在。故C正确。
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