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Language Ideological Landscapes for Students in University Language Policies: Inclusion, Exclusion, or Hierarchy
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Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Differences between Monolinguals and Bilinguals/Males and Females in English Reading Comprehension and Reading Strategy Use
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Afsharrad, Mohammad; Sadeghi Benis, Aram Reza – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present study aims at finding the differences between bilingual and monolingual learners across gender in the use of cognitive, metacognitive, and total reading strategies, as well as reading comprehension ability. To this end, 50 Persian-Turkish bilinguals and 36 Persian monolinguals participated in the study. A standard test of reading…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, English