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Anh Khoi Nguyen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper provides a qualitative account of Vietnamese language maintenance in Manchester. Through ethnographic observations of distinctly Vietnamese locations, Vietnamese language practices are shown to create spaces in which Vietnamese is the dominant language, and in which Vietnamese norms and expectations, or scales, are able to influence and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Vietnamese, Ethnography
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Abu-Zahra, Majdi J.; Shayeb, Ahmad Sh. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This research tries to investigate the importance of mobile translation apps when carrying out translation activities in the classroom. Specifically, this is a semester-long study which attempts to see how beneficial it is to allow translation students enrolled in the translation program at the Department of Languages and Translation at Birzeit…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Class Activities
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Hopf, Suzanne C.; McLeod, Sharynne; McDonagh, Sarah H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This study explored linguistic multi-competence in Fiji students and their conversational partners through a description of linguistic diversity in one school community. Students' caregivers (n = 75), teachers (n = 25) and year 4 students (n = 40) in an urban school of Fiji completed paper-based questionnaires regarding: 75 students, 75 mothers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism
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Frimberger, Katja – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
This article explores the author's embodied experience of linguistic incompetence in the context of an interview-based, short, promotional film production about people's personal connections to their spoken languages in Glasgow, Scotland/UK. The article highlights that people's right to their spoken languages during film interviews and the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Films, Interviews, Nonverbal Communication
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Abu Rabiah, Eihab – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Since Ure (1971) and Halliday (1985), different measures have been proposed in the research literature as a proxy for investigating lexicon advances. They are called lexical richness measures and are an important tool in assessing advance of the lexicon (Johansson, 2009). This article evaluates three lexical richness measures of progress in the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Arabs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Taheri, Ali Akbar; Davoudi, Mohammad – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Compensation Strategies (CpSs) are strategies which a language user employs in order to achieve his intended meaning when precise linguistic forms are for some reasons not available at that point of communication. Different factors may influence the use of CpSs, among which the level of language proficiency is one of the most important ones. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Altmeyer, Stefan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2015
Language does not only play an active part "in all processes" of comprehension, recognition and learning, it is also essential for "specific religious learning processes." Religious experiences and traditions have their own characteristic linguistic forms, and religious education has come to realise the necessity for an…
Descriptors: Religion, Language Usage, German, Secondary School Students
Choudhury, Anindya Syam – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
Although it is a core component of a language user's overall linguistic competence, vocabulary has traditionally not received the kind of attention it deserved, being usually lumped with other kinds of competence till 1980s and 1990s when researchers started focusing on it with great interest. The present paper discusses what the notion of lexical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Case Studies, Vocabulary Development
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Bocale, Paola – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper presents the results of fieldwork conducted among the small Italian minority living in Kerch, a coastal town in Crimea, between 2012 and 2013. After introducing the socio-historical background and the current situation of the minority, it presents and discusses the attitudes of members of the community towards the different languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Native Language, Language Dominance
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Liu, Wei – Education Sciences, 2016
In a context of the internationalisation of Higher Education (HE) driven by the high mobility of international Higher Degree Research candidates (HDRs), it is important to consider the value of HDRs' multilingual capabilities for their learning and making of original contributions to knowledge. This article reports on a literature study regarding…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Universities, Educational Policy, International Education
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Agolli, Renata – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2015
This paper aims to introduce pre-CLIL through the CLSL (content & languages [L1/L2] shared learning) model, which operates as a bridge for a full CLIL immersion. It analyses the characteristics of this new learning model that springs up from immanent needs of Italian educational reality by reporting results on the way content and language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Learning Experience
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Laursen, Helle Pia; Mogensen, Naja Dahlstrup – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
This article examines how, in a multilingual perspective, language competence is experienced, talked about and practiced by language users themselves. By viewing children as active co-creators of the spaces in which language is used, this article contributes to a research tradition in which focus is shifted from viewing the individual's language…
Descriptors: Interviews, Linguistic Competence, Language Proficiency, Researchers
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Thomas, Enlli Môn; Apolloni, Dafydd; Lewis, Gwyn – Language and Education, 2014
Previous studies have demonstrated how primary-school-aged children learning a minority language at school revert to the use of their dominant L1 in peer-peer situations, both within and outside the classroom. Identifying the cause of this pattern is central to language policy strategies and initiatives across many minority language regions, and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Elementary School Students, Welsh
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Kotani, Katsunori; Yoshimi, Takehiko; Nanjo, Hiroaki; Isahara, Hitoshi – English Language Teaching, 2016
In order to develop effective teaching methods and computer-assisted language teaching systems for learners of English as a foreign language who need to study the basic linguistic competences for writing, pronunciation, reading, and listening, it is necessary to first investigate which vocabulary and grammar they have or have not yet learned.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Accuracy, Language Fluency, Linguistic Competence
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Oakes, Leigh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
The increased status that Creole has enjoyed in Reunion over the last decade, coupled with more positive attitudes towards the language, has led to suggestions that diglossia may be giving way to a more balanced French-Creole bilingualism. Building on recent research indicating that the new-found status may be largely symbolic, the present article…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Creoles, Foreign Countries, French
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