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...tions in informal or formal education help strengthen the survival of minority languages, because as generations pass language become dominant over others and compulsory for education. Languages need to be valued in the market. It should be relevant for students to gain employment, otherwise it becomes irrelevant to students and education. Association of languages with cultural, leisure, religious and social interactions is important. Active participation help maintain language. Religious use of language is advantageous. In a self governing society language planning helps maintain languages. Regardless of the national curriculum primary schools are trying to help protect minority languages. 2a) the author’s main concerns are about the death of many languages in the world and how to maintain its survival. A language should be loved in order for it to survive. Evidence state that many of the worlds languages are becoming extinct and 50 percent of the languages will die in the next 100 years if it is not reproduced amongst the youngsters. Children play an important role in the argument because if heritage language if reproduced in them then there is an advantage for it to be maintained through adolescent. Animals and plants strive for survival this is how language should be protected otherwise extinction is likely to occur. 2b) Academic writing The article is an academic text because it illustrates many features of academic writing. The sources of materials used e.g. ‘languages of the world’ (1998) illustrate reliable data that give evidence to the number of languages that exist. ‘Languages of the world’ lists 6,703 living languages, there are other sources used and having compared the sources there are some similarities and few differences. The article compares animals and plants to the language survival. This illustrates that the author is using his own opinion with facts about the world today. When having researched on languages of the world, indigenous languages are often recognised, what about the migrant language speakers? Don’t these lang...