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Pascual y Cabo, Diego; Prada, Josh; Lowther Pereira, Kelly – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined the effects of participation in a community service-learning experience on Spanish heritage language learners' attitudes toward their heritage language and culture. Quantitative and qualitative data from heritage language learners demonstrated that engagement in community service-learning activities as part of the Spanish…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Learning Experience, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Kwon, Jungmin – Language and Education, 2017
This qualitative study investigates immigrant mothers' beliefs and practices toward supporting maintenance of their children's heritage language (HL) in the context of transnationalism. The data are primarily drawn from formal and informal interviews and observations of six mothers who immigrated to the United States from Japan and Korea. The…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mothers, Native Language, Heritage Education
Doe, Christine; Cheng, Liying; Fox, Janna; Klinger, Don; Zheng, Ying – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
The importance of first language (L1) and second language (L2) test takers' experience with large-scale literacy testing has been well documented in educational research. Our study focused on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT), a cross-curricular literacy test that is one of the graduation requirements for Ontario high school…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Graduation Requirements, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Anthony, Margreat Aloysious; Ganesen, Sree Nithya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
According to Horwitz (1987) learners' belief about language learning are influenced by previous language learning experiences as well as cultural background. This study examined the English Language Learning Strategies between local and international Chinese students who share the same cultural background but have been exposed to different…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Students, Learning Experience, Foreign Countries
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Tódor, Erika Mária – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The aim of the article is to analyse the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the skills of reading and text-understanding, focusing on the comparative analysis of experiences of meaning in native language, Romanian and English in the case of Hungarian pupils. We attempted to present the qualitative indexes and factors of the process of reading…
Descriptors: Native Language, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Reading Skills