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Canut, Emmanuelle; Masson, Caroline; Husianycia, Magali – Language and Education, 2023
Studies that measure the effectiveness of language-training program for children's language development do not clearly identify in adult-child interaction which characteristics of educators' language are most effective, particularly for children over 4 years of age who need to develop complex syntactic skills. Our study aimed to analyze the…
Descriptors: French, Syntax, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Children
Ada Bier; Gabriele Zanello; Antonella Ottogalli – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of regional or minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. Friulian is a Romance language, traditionally recognised as part of the Rhaeto-Romance sub-family. It is spoken in FriĆ»l (in Friulian)/Friuli (in Italian), a territory…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, Italian
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Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Farver, JoAnn M. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the cross-language relations between the phonological awareness (PA) skills of preschool children learning more than one language are dependent upon their first-and second-language oral language skills. Four hundred sixty-six Spanish-speaking language minority children participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Troolin, David – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper describes a case study of language development in rural Papua New Guinea, in which parents felt the local school was not meeting the educational needs of their children. In this case study, the local, national and global narratives concerning use of the vernacular in education were apparent in the negotiation leading to an apparent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Planning, Case Studies