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Showing 1 to 20 of 22598 for “"Language"”.
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A First Language in Second Language Writing
… the results show that some students do language switch and use their L1 when prewriting. More research is needed to see what students and instructors believe is prewriting. There also needs to be more elucidation in survey material, more exposition for subjects as to what prewriting …
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Dual language bilingual education program implementation : teacher language ideologies and local language policy
… the top-down implementation process of a dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in over 60 schools in a large urban school district in Texas to identify language ideologies and issues of language policy and policy implementation according to local participating educators. Drawing on a …
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"Hands off our language!" Deaf sign language teachers' perspectives on sign language standardisation
… of codified standard varieties of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebclrdensprache, DGS), there have been repeated calls for the standardisation of both languages primarily from outside the deaf communities. The development of standard varieties has been suggested …
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The Cartographic Representation of Language: Understanding language map construction and visualizing language diversity
Language maps provide illustrations of linguistic and cultural diversity and distribution, appearing in outlets ranging from textbooks and news articles to websites and wall maps. They are valuable visual aids that accompany discussions of our cultural climate. Despite the prevalent use of language …
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Language and IQ in Children With Language Impairment
… to explore the potential relations between language and IQ in 30 children with language impairment. According to a modular model, this study hypothesized that semantic abilities would be substantially associated with IQ while morphosyntactic and phonological memory skills would remain …
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Language teaching anxiety among university level language teachers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Understanding language
… positive proposal is that our understanding of language is typically realized, at least in native speakers, as a perceptual capacity. Evidence from cognitive neuropsychology suggests that our perceptual experience of language comes to us already semantically interpreted. We perceive a speaker's …
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Essays on the Economics of Language and Language Policy
… concerns the economic dimensions of second language knowledge and acquisition and the economic implications of language policies. The value of the ability to speak and understand a second language depends on the extent to which it enlarges one's communicative sphere which, in turn, depends …
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The Relationship Between English Language Structure and Language Acquisition
… and complicated aspects of the English language as well as the implications for new English speakers. This investigation provides an overview of the language, some of the difficulties faced by English language learners (ELL), and encouragement and understanding for those teaching it and …
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The language of risk and the risk of language
This mini-dissertation is written towards an MA in Linguistics. As such, it falls within the domain of Humanities. However, its author is a doctor and the subject matter is medical, which falls within the domain of Science. The mini-dissertation thus bridges these different domains, and the …
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Language acquisition and language variation : the role of morphology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1995.
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Language in the U.S. and the Law: A Corpus Analysis of the Language of Language Policy
… positioning and portrayal of English and other languages in U.S. language policy and to see what implications that positioning and portrayal has for understanding possible impacts and interpretations of U.S. language policies. In order to do this, I use corpus linguistic techniques to study the …
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Language and culture: the importance of cultural language to enhance the teaching and learning of Persian language in a Persian heritage language school
… investigate how the integration of culture and language or Cultural Language can enhance the teaching and learning of the Persian language in a Persian Heritage Language school. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the relationship between Persian Heritage Language and its effect on conserving …
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Language Growth of Day Care Children: Long Term Enrollment Effects on Vocabulary, Language Comprehension and Language Production
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:48:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511652.pdf: 5294899 bytes, checksum: e6aafcebd39774d5bb20aefe0aed7eae (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Where language is made: language planning at the intersections of national and international literacy and language work
… fully in U.S. culture and economy. Accordingly, language planning projects (e.g. anti-bilingual education legislation and the English-Only Movement) aim to eradicate language differences and, with them, the need to develop resources and nurture attitudes that support linguistic plurality. The …
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A treatise on language methods and language-games in autism
… become fully socialised through learning a first language, it appeared to me that autism research has, especially of late, failed to give sufficient attention to language despite Kanner’s advice. In researching this thesis I have sought to make a contribution to knowledge of my subject by: (1) …
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The effect of language proficiency on second-language lie detection.
I examined whether observers’ own language proficiencies would affect their lie detection judgments. In a previous study, native- and second-language English speakers were videotaped as they either lied or told the truth about having cheated on a test (Da Silva & Leach, 2013). A total of 284 …
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature discussions
… and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which described classroom events and interactions. Analysis of the …
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A Brain for Language and the Language of the Brain
… computation theory, the relationship with formal language theory, and present an introduction to the possible applications to different biological systems. The second section deals with the role of noise in the transmission of information in neurons. We show that a key component of the dynamics of …
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