If a hispanic teenager refuses to speak spanish outside the home, uses spanglish inside, and only english everywhere else, what communication practice is he or she exhibiting?

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Nikolai Myers

Social Studies

2 November, 05:10

If a hispanic teenager refuses to speak spanish outside the home, uses spanglish inside, and only english everywhere else, what communication practice is he or she exhibiting?

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Susan Jarvis · Answer 1

The answer is Assimilation. Is the process whereby a community of speakers of a language shifts to speaking a completely different language and it is usually over a prolonged period. Also identified as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, Language shift.