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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Home Languages"”.
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Teacher and peer support of lone speakers of home languages other than English attending early childhood centres
… of 12 children who were lone speakers of home languages other than English attending three English medium early childhood centres [ECCs] with different philosophies, programmes, and practices: a sessional kindergarten, and two all day care centres. The study focused on the interpersonal …
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A Differential Item Functioning Analysis of The New Mexico English Language Proficiency Assessment
… studies seldom address the effects of home languages on the use and interpretation of these assessments. If this step is overlooked, the assessment may include items that unfairly position one group of home language scores over another group. An omission of home languages was the case …
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What do teachers say and do when teaching a concept of print in linguistically diverse classrooms
… are most often unable to speak or understand the home languages of all of the pupils in their classes, they are faced with the task of teaching pupils to read in a language which may not be equally familiar to all of them. The reading lessons of four teachers in four schools were observed over a …
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Grade 3 learners’ metaphorical proficiency in isiXhosa literacy: Exploring the use of idioms in the teaching and learning of creative writing
… they are taught through the medium of their own home languages, including African languages (Department of Basic Education, 2013). To enrich learners’ language and literacy skills, the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) encourages the use of figurative and metaphorical language through …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
… of this attempt at integration on their home languages and ultimately, their placement in their new society. It follows a qualitative research methodological approach for data collection where participants' language use and language choices are observed. Unstructured interviews and …
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Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds.
… attitudes to language, both English and their ‘home languages’, as well as analysing their accents, and attempts to find correlations between accents and attitudes. It first provides an overview of how this demographic is represented in the literature and the media, and then examines the history …
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An Exploration of How Working-Class Substance Users in the Western Cape Understand Their Addiction
… aim to conduct interviews in participants' home languages to aid in capturing more nuanced narratives. Moreover, a more gender-balanced sample should be interviewed which would allow the female voice to come through more consistently.
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Capacity-building of school governing bodies in area of policy interpretation and implementation
… that SGBs be adequately trained in their home languages and encouraged to form cluster committees to share experiences to develop their capacity. The DBE should continuously monitor and support SGBs in the execution of their duties.
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Narratives of Latina Teacher Candidates on Subtractive Schooling Experiences and Their Language Identity
… many are schooled in systems that devalue their home languages and prioritize English-only instruction. This study explored how these dynamics influenced Latina teacher candidates’ perceptions of their own bilingualism and professional identities. The purpose of the study was to examine how …
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Secondary school science pupils' rankings of science and technology related global problems : a comparison of the responses of rural-Northern Sotho, urban-Xhosa and urban-English speaking pupils in South Africa to meeting basic needs in the context of the 1994 Government White Paper on Reconstruction and Development
… secondary school pupils speaking three different home languages in two provinces in South Africa. The study is an enlargement of the work of Bybee and Mau (1986); Bybee and 'Najafi (1986); Ndodana, Rochford and Fraser (1994); and Le Grange, Rochford and Sass (1995), and is carried out in the …
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Language ideologies and Stakeholder responses to the proposed implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Grade 5 Natural Science.
… the research focuses on people's experiences, languages uses and ideologies about the MTBBE phenomenon. The main data collection tools were interviews and questionnaires. The findings of the study reveal that language ideologies such as monoglossia, monolingualism and anglonormativity are …
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The effects of the connect to success academy on adolescents' career decision self-efficacy and achievement motivation
… Variables such as genders, ages, ethnicities, home languages, types of households, education levels, and household incomes were explored. Bandura’s Self-efficacy theory and Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-ecological Systems Theory were incorporated to better understand adolescent motivation and …
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Finding Their Chrysanthemum: Linguistic Representation in Children's Literature
… “American,” which can leave children and their home languages feeling unseen and dismissed. To help further the conversation and promotion of linguistic diversity in American society, this capstone analyzes dialectal representation in children’s books, with a heavy focus on attitudinal …
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“This is the oppressor’s language, yet I need it to talk to you”: a critical examination of translanguaging in Russian speakers at the university level
… and proponents’ advocacy for incorporating home languages within the writing classroom has come to be understood as a necessity for student success. Leonard (2014) identifies students' drawing upon all of their linguistic resources as "rhetorical attunement" and argues that multilingual …
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GATEKEEPERS TO THE THIRD SPACE: AUTHORITY, AGENCY, AND LANGUAGE HIERARCHY IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
… writing assert that inviting students’ home languages or dialects into the classroom allows multilingual students to use languages other than English connect with the curriculum, develop rhetorical complexity as writers, and to be validated as language users; however, scholarship could …
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Contributing Factors that Affect the Achievement of African-American Females Taught by Caucasian Teachers on the Arkansas Literacy Exam: A Case Study
… majority of minorities with several native based home languages. The study took an in-depth approach to find the contributing factors that cause African-American females to score `Advanced' at a much lower rate compared to their Caucasian peers under the instruction of Caucasian English teachers …
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Translanguaging in Grade 9 Social Sciences classroom in the Zululand District
… was understood better by learners when both languages were used. Results indicate that home languages play a vital role in educational activities of learners because it is the language they are most familiar with. The main finding from the reading comprehension inventory revealed that, when …
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Anorectal Malformations at Children's Health: Understanding Our Patient Population, Patterns of Disease, and Surgical Outcomes Over a 10-Year Period
… (n=122) and Spanish (n=50) were the most common home languages. 144 patients (82%) had a "low" malformation. 117 patients (66%) underwent a staged operation. VACTeRL association was identified in 68 patients (39%). The most common type of malformation was perineal fistula followed by …
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Language socialization in Canadian Hispanic communities : ideologies and practices
… has highlighted the importance of supporting home languages for linguistic-minority families in multilingual settings, as the family language is the means through which they can more successfully socialize their children into the beliefs, values, ideologies and practices surrounding their …
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Communication Between an Early Childhood Program and the Families It Serves
… of the program's target population had home languages other than English. Another contextual factor was local school district support for early childhood programming. Recommendations for the program include continuing those communication activities that personnel and family members seem …
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