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[3]. Passage: In border towns, a child's first language may change within a single bus ride. Markets mix dialects, schools impose a state language, and families preserve a home tongue in songs and kitchens. This layering is often misread as confusion, but multilingual children regularly switch codes with precision, choosing the variety that fits the listener and the task. Problems arise not from multilingualism itself but from policies that treat one language as the only legitimate medium and brand others as backward. When schools value the home language as a bridge rather than a barrier, children learn the school language faster and retain a sense of belonging that no examination can measure. In the passage, the word 'layering' most nearly means:
Option 4 : the presence of several languages or varieties used together in one community
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर the presence of several languages or varieties used together in one community है।
In context the word is used in the sense given in the correct option; the distractors fit other contexts, not this passage.
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[3]. Passage: In border towns, a child's first language may change within a single bus ride. Markets mix dialects, schools impose a state language, and families preserve a home tongue in songs and kitchens. This layering is often misread as confusion, but multilingual children regularly switch codes with precision, choosing the variety that fits the listener and the task. Problems arise not from multilingualism itself but from policies that treat one language as the only legitimate medium and brand others as backward. When schools value the home language as a bridge rather than a barrier, children learn the school language faster and retain a sense of belonging that no examination can measure. In the passage, the word 'layering' most nearly means:
Correct Answer: the presence of several languages or varieties used together in one community
In context the word is used in the sense given in the correct option; the distractors fit other contexts, not this passage.