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Direct linkPaterson, Lindsay; O'Hanlon, Fiona – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Two social roles for language have been distinguished by Edwards--the communicative and the symbolic. Using data from a survey of public attitudes to Gaelic in Scotland, the article investigates the extent to which people's view of language may be characterised as relating to these roles. Respondents were grouped, using statistical cluster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages, Public Opinion
Harvey, Hattie A.; Miller, Gloria E. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The contribution of 3 executive function skills (shifting, inhibitory control, and working memory) and their relation to early mathematical skills was investigated with preschoolers attending 6 Head Start centers. Ninety-two children ranging in age from 3 years, 1 month, to 4 years, 11 months, who were native English or Spanish…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Vocabulary Development
Download full textDe Smet, Audrey; Mettewie, Laurence; Galand, Benoit; Hiligsmann, Philippe; Van Mensel, Luk – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study investigates pupils' anxiety and enjoyment in the classroom when learning a second or foreign language. The particularity of this study lies in the comparison of two target languages (English and Dutch) in two educational contexts (CLIL and non-CLIL) at different instruction levels (primary and secondary education). While most research…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Emotional Experience, Anxiety
Murphy, Audrey Figueroa – Bilingual Research Journal, 2014
The effects of "transitional-bilingual" and "dual-language" educational models on proficiency in students' home language (Spanish) were examined in a study of English language learners in the first and second grades in a large urban elementary school. In each grade, students were taught with either a transitional-bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Proficiency, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Sanger, Dixie; Mohling, Sara; Stremlau, Aliza – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of this study was to survey the opinions of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) on response to intervention (RTI). Questionnaires were mailed to 2,000 randomly selected elementary and secondary SLPs throughout the United States. Mean results of 583 respondents (29.15%) indicated that SLPs agreed on 37 Likert-type items and responded…
Descriptors: Prevention, Response to Intervention, Opinions, Speech Language Pathology
Tang, Hui-Wen Vivian; Yin, Mu-Shang; Sheu, Ru-Shuo – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate whether differences in information and communication technology (ICT) readiness and access across countries were fundamentally related to the variable of English language adoption. A one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was utilized to comparatively examine the developments of ICT readiness…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, English
Brown, Ivan; Sachdev, Itesh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Although the Japanese community in London is relatively small, its composition is stable and reflects several aspects of Japan's relationship with the international community. Yet there appears to have been no systematic research exploring patterns of bilingual behaviour in relation to social psychological processes amongst Japanese nationals in…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes
Leong, Che Kan; Cheng, Pui Wan; Tan, Li Hai – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
This study investigated the effect of phonological sensitivity of two comparable groups of grades 4 and 5 Chinese children, one a Putonghua-speaking group ("n" = 77) from Beijing and the other a Cantonese-speaking group ("n" = 80) from Hong Kong on English and Chinese pseudoword reading. It was hypothesized that the Beijing…
Descriptors: Language Role, Rhyme, Phonemes, Reading
