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Mitali Thatte; Katie Makar – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
This study was conducted in Maharashtra, India with children studying in a regional medium (Marathi) government school. In Marathi, the translation of the word 'about' is not very commonly used. The aim of the study was to see how the children used uncertain language about prediction while engaged in a statistical investigation and how children…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Native Language, Language of Instruction
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Clark, Eve V. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
In this article, I examine how repairs in adult-child conversations guide children's acquisition of language. Children make unprompted self-repairs to their utterances. They also respond to prompts for repair, whether open ("Hm?," "What?") or restricted ("You hid what?"), and to restricted offers (Child: "I…
Descriptors: French, Verbs, Semitic Languages, Native Language
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Khademi, Hamidreza; Cardoso, Walcir – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This article, based on Khademi's (2021) Master's thesis, examines the use of Google Translate (GT) and its speech capabilities, Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), in helping L2 learners acquire the pronunciation of English past -ed allomorphy (/t/, /d/, /id/) in a semi-autonomous context, considering three…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation, Computer Software
D'Acierno, Maria Rosaria – Online Submission, 2018
The general purpose of this study is to increase, in a classroom environment, formal communication by using reading and writing. Our research focuses on reading as a means to develop the writing of a good prĂ©cis, which in its turn contributes to improve: 1) memory, vocabulary and grammatical-syntactical structures, in brief, the organization of a…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zascerinska, Jelena – Online Submission, 2010
Introduction. The use of three-five languages is of the greatest importance in order to form varied cooperative networks for the creation of new knowledge. Aim of the paper is to analyze the synergy between language acquisition and language learning. Materials and Methods. The search for the synergy between language acquisition and language…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Native Language
Jantjies, Mmaki E.; Joy, Mike – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper presents a multilingual mobile learning framework that can be used to support the pedagogical development of mobile learning systems which can support learning in under-resourced multilingual schools. The framework has been developed following two empirical mobile learning studies. Both studies were conducted in multilingual South…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Multilingualism, Interviews, Questionnaires
Patricio, Sancho Da Costa – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
English plays an important role for the life of the people of East Timor. So it is studied from secondary to tertiary schools. However, the resources of English are not sufficiently available. Under the development concerns the conditions that are faced by both the educator and learners in English as a foreign language course at the university.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Action Research, Morphemes, Multilingualism