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Orly Haim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the role of age of arrival (AoA) in immigrant students' perceived multilingual proficiency. Additionally, the study investigates the demographic, linguistic and social-psychological variables distinguishing young-arriving immigrants from their middle and older-arriving peers. The sample included 274 eleventh grade Russian (L1)…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Proficiency, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Charamba, Erasmos – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Education for multilingual Physics students in South Africa still has a monolingual bias despite such pedagogy being repeatedly identified as the key factor in students' academic underachievement in the subject. The paper reports on the pivotal role language plays in the comprehension and subsequent academic performance of students in science…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Physics, Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Jan, Jie-Sheng; Kuan, Ping-Yin; Lomeli, Arlett – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The Hakka people, the largest ethno-linguistic minority group in Taiwan, have found their ethnic language retention diminishing. Using the data collected by the Taiwan Education Panel Survey and Beyond in 2010, we are the first to study its reason for decrease. Results indicate that out-marriage amongst Hakka people and losing ethnic concentration…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Asians, Ethnic Groups