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Gibb, Tara – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This paper draws on ethnographic research to discuss the textual practices and social relations of language assessment. It examines the tensions that language educators and assessment practitioners encounter while making decisions about immigrant professionals' language competence. It also analyzes the role of other social actors in constituting…
Descriptors: Immigration, Ethnography, Social Theories, Language Tests
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Videsott, Gerda; Della Rosa, Pasquale Anthony; Wiater, Werner; Franceschini, Rita; Abutalebi, Jubin – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The aim of the present study was to investigate the attentional mechanisms of multilingual children with differential degrees of language competence. For this purpose, 118 children (61 female/57 male; mean age 10.9 years (SD = 0.29); early acquisition multilinguals) from the Ladin valleys in South Tyrol, Italy, performed the Attentional Network…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Linguistic Competence