NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wray, Alison – Language Awareness, 2019
In multi-ethnic contexts, it is not uncommon to find that dementia carers or their clients are using, as the medium for communication in care, a language in which they are not comfortable and/or are not fluent. In extreme cases, there could be no shared linguistic code at all. This article asks how feasible it is to provide adequate care with…
Descriptors: Dementia, Health Services, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kasmer, Lisa Anne; Billings, Esther – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2017
This study investigated how a study abroad experience teaching mathematics in Tanzania, Africa impacted a group of secondary education pre-service teachers (PSTs) from the United States. In particular we discuss their ability to facilitate the learning of students in multilingual mathematics classrooms while personally developing intercultural…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Study Abroad, Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Brown, Amanda; Gullberg, Marianne – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008
Whereas most research in SLA assumes the relationship between the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) to be unidirectional, this study investigates the possibility of a bidirectional relationship. We examine the domain of manner of motion, in which monolingual Japanese and English speakers differ both in speech and gesture. Parallel…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning, Nonverbal Communication