PrepTest 107 - Section 2 - Passage 2 - Question 11

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Tribal communities in North America believe that their traditional languages are valuable resources that must be maintained. ███

Intro to Topic · Maintenance of traditional tribal languages

Problem · Language dying

Blame is on majority culture which separates a community and its traditions.

Solution · Community self-teaching

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Solution Mechanics · Document the grammar

Example: Northern Utes created a sort of textbook on grammar.

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Obstacle 1 · Difficulty writing down oral languages

Oral languages don't have written symbolic counterparts. So, I guess the challenge is that they have to invent the written counterparts?

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Obstacle 2 · Many dialects

Which dialect should be written down and taught?

Solution / Decision · Northern Utes rejected standardization

They accept various spellings as long as meaning was the same. This may sound problematic for us but it's fine for what their community needs.

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Results · Success

Children could write and speak the language.

Opposition · Transforming an oral language to a written one is misguided and unnecessary

Rebuttal · It is necessary because language is dying

Though, perhaps language could be preserved purely orally if majority culture was avoided more thoroughly.

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Implied

The four wrong answers will be compatible with the way traditional-language preservation is described. The correct answer will not be compatible. Let’s look for something that seems inconsistent with the way traditional-language preservation is described.

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We have no reason to think this is incompatible with preserving traditional languages. Defenders of the practice of writing down traditional languages acknowledge that oral languages can be preserved orally as long as a community avoids aspects of the majority culture that make oral preservation difficult.

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This is compatible, because we know a tribe that is teaching traditional languages has actually done this.

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This is the best answer. A community’s incorporation of words from the majority culture in its traditional language seems to go against the purpose of teaching traditional languages, which is to prevent language loss.

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We have no reason to think a community shouldn’t determine the best way to present its traditional language to students. There’s no evidence (D) is inconsistent with how language-preservation is described in the passage.

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We have no reason to think a community should deliberate about which dialect to teach. In fact, we know the Northern Utes made a decision about how to handle dialects — this probably required deliberation. The fact that the Utes decided not to teach a dialect does not imply that communities shouldn’t deliberate about the topic of which dialect to teach.

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