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Niyomugabo, Cyprien; Uwizeyimana, Valentin – Language Policy, 2018
Depending on different factors, aspects of human language such as orthography, lexicon, and pronunciation can change through bottom-up or top-down planning approaches. This article investigates Kinyarwanda language users' attitudes towards Kinyarwanda orthography change, which was implemented on 13 October 2014 in Rwanda. It also discusses the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Planning, Language Usage, African Languages
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Mathers, Margaret E. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2006
This article reports some outcomes from an exploratory study that compares children diagnosed with ADHD and without language impairment with typically developing children for aspects of language use. Discourse analysis based on a systemic functional linguistics approach is applied to spoken and written samples from three different text types that…
Descriptors: Written Language, Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Spelling