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Sybille Heinzmann; Catherine Ferris; Thomas Roderer; Kristina Ehrsam – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
While internationally there is long-standing research activity on the effectiveness of language contacts (especially in the form of mobility stays) at tertiary level and a number of literature syntheses on this field have been published, research projects at the primary and secondary level are still comparatively rare and the results are often not…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Study Abroad, Student Exchange Programs, Second Language Learning
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Stefania Spina; Irene Fioravanti; Luciana Forti; Fabio Zanda – Second Language Research, 2024
This article introduces the CELI corpus, a new learner corpus of written Italian consisting of ca. 600,000 tokens, evenly distributed among CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) proficiency levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. The collected texts derive from the language certification exams administered by the University for Foreigners…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Best Practices
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Chya, Dehrich; Fine, Julia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
For the past five years, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository has been documenting intricacies of the Alutiiq language with the help of Elder speakers and a grant from the National Science Foundation (#1360839). The project's primary focus has been recording vocabulary, grammar, and ways of speaking for this threatened Native Alaskan…
Descriptors: Language Research, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Vocabulary
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Gordon, Moragh; Oudesluijs, Tino; Auer, Anita – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article contributes to existing studies that are concerned with standardisation and supralocalisation processes in the development of written English during the Early Modern English period. By focussing on and comparing civic records and letter data from important regional urban centres, notably Bristol, Coventry and York, from the period…
Descriptors: English, Language Variation, Urban Areas, Written Language
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Galuschka, Katharina; Görgen, Ruth; Kalmar, Julia; Haberstroh, Stefan; Schmalz, Xenia; Schulte-Körne, Gerd – Educational Psychologist, 2020
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the efficacy of spelling interventions for the remediation of dyslexia and spelling deficits. Theoretically important moderators, such as the treatment approach as well as orthographic and sample characteristics, were also considered. Thirty-four controlled trials that evaluated spelling…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervention, Dyslexia, Children
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Newman, Mark; Kwan, Irene; Schucan Bird, Karen; Hoo, Hui-Teng – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
Meta-syntheses have reported positive impacts of feedback for student achievement at different stages of education and have been influential in establishing feedback as an effective strategy to support student learning. However, these syntheses combine studies of a variety of different feedback approaches, combine studies where feedback is one of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Yang, Jinsuk – Language Policy, 2017
Using media texts from a Korean newspaper archive, this article describes the process through which the state took up the ideology of linguistic nationalism during the period of Japanese colonisation of Korea (1910-1945). This was particularly aimed at a modernisation project in order for the legacy of the Joseon dynasty, which had ruled Korea for…
Descriptors: Asian History, Ideology, Land Settlement, Korean
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Pham, Thanh; Saito, Eisuke; Bao, Dat; Chowdhury, Raqib – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2018
This paper presents a systematic qualitative review of relevant literature, documents and reports, and critically discusses issues facing international students undertaking work-integrated learning (WIL) activities as part of their higher education in Australia. Initiatives utilised to better support international students on these WIL placements…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Higher Education, College Students
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Traxler, John – Research in Learning Technology, 2018
This paper is the first attempt to explore digital literacy in the specific context of the Palestinian refugee community in the Middle East by looking at the cultural specificity of digital literacy theorising and practice, by analysing current digital education policy in the countries hosting the Palestinian refugee community and by documenting…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Lamont, Kim; Sliwa, Karen; Stewart, Simon; Carrington, Melinda; Pretorius, Sandra; Libhaber, Elena; Wiysonge, Charles S.; Adebayo, Esther F.; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin – Health Education Journal, 2016
Background: In many low- and middle-income countries, access to health information during pregnancy is poor. The rapid adoption of mobile phones in these countries has created new opportunities for disseminating such information. Objective: This paper reviews existing information on the use of short message services (SMSs) as a feasible tool to…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Literature Reviews, Written Language, Telecommunications
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Altamimi, Ahmed A.; Lee, Lay Wah; Sayed-Ahmed, Al-sayed A.; Kassem, Mostafa M. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Special education in Saudi Arabia was formally established in 1962. The earliest cited literature on special education written in English was a 1970 government report. This article presents results from the first synthesis of internationally published Saudi special education literature over a 44-year period. This synthesis yielded information…
Descriptors: Special Education, Foreign Countries, Written Language, English
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Scott, Kathleen A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Growing evidence suggests that, as a group, many internationally adopted children catch up to their peers in terms of their language development by the time they reach their school-age years. Although this appears to be particularly true for children adopted during the first few years of life, it is not true for all internationally adopted…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Skills, Adoption, Skill Development
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Leech, Geoffrey – Language Learning, 2000
Reviews research that has been emerging from the availability of corpora on the grammar of spoken English. Presents arguments for the view that spoken and written language utilize the same basic grammatical repertoire, however different their implementations of it are. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Research
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Johnston, Trevor – Sign Language Studies, 2003
Discusses the issue of the use of signed language dictionaries in the standardization of signed languages with reference to the Australian Sign language (Auslan) dictionaries. Details the structure of the Auslan dictionaries and argues that bilingual, bidirectional dictionaries of this type must be produced if communities are to encourage language…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Language Standardization
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Danet, Brenda; Bogoch, Bryna – Language and Communication, 1992
Presents theoretical discussion of the emergence of linguistic features of documents that indicate society is moving toward a view of writing as a form of constitutive social action and of written documents as autonomous material objects having a life of their own. Linguistic features of Anglo-Saxon wills are shown to differ from those of modern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Old English, Oral Language
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