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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Language socialization"”.
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Language socialization in Canadian Hispanic communities : ideologies and practices
… 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 languages …
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Leading Children in Chhan -Chng: Language Socialization in a Taiwanese Community
… meaning systems in a study of caregiving and language socialization. It also raises questions regarding the long-term impact of rigid school-based language policies that purposefully cut off and devalue home-based languages.
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Academic And Language Socialization Of Russian Ma Tesl Students At Us Universities: Struggles, Triumphs, And New Identities
… students undergo an uneasy academic socialization process and re-imagine themselves through the use of second language (l2). This process is simultaneously coupled with academic and language socialization practices that construct novices as certain kinds of situationally organized …
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The influence of the IELTS Speaking test preparation on second language socialization of post-secondary international students in Canada
… IELTS Speaking test preparation and the second language socialization process in Canada and the relationship between them. This research employs a mixed method as the methodology, with quantitative data collection informing the collection and analysis of the qualitative portion. Quantitative …
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Ways of Being in Home and Community: Language Socialization of Children With Autism in Multilingual South Asian Immigrant Families
… study also lay the foundation in the area of language development programs for children with communication disabilities that are based on the family's cultural background and care-giving styles.
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
… have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices across these settings in the Chinese community in U.S. Taking a language socialization perspective, this study explores early writing socialization of Chinese preschool children in English …
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"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
"Language socialization is a life-long process in which individuals are continuously socialized into new roles, statuses, and practices. This process becomes more complex in multilingual contexts. However, we know little of the language socialization of older adults and we know even less of …
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Bilingualism in a functional perspective : the language and content learning of immigrant entrepreneurs
… a bilingual (Cantonese and English) business and language program which aims to relate the linguistic and managerial knowledge acquired in class to the business operations. This case study raises problematic questions for both LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) research and bilingual …
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Words Flying on the Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children in a Chinese Bilingual School
<p>This study focused on the language socialization experiences non-mainstream Indigenous Buriat youth from the Republic of Buriatia, Russian Federation, encountered as they attended a bilingual school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. They migrated in order to start language studies which would …
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Children's Songs in Nawfija Community, Southeastern Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective
… in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. The language of communication in the community is the Nawfija variety of Igbo. The research was conducted from a sociolinguistic perspective, shaped by the participants' ideas and perceptions, thereby allowing their voices to be heard. Adopting a …
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Listening to all of the words: reassessing the verbal environments of young working-class and poor children
… fail at school is due to differences between the language within these children's homes and the language within the school. Unfortunately, these differences are often conceptualized as language deficits or language impoverishment in the homes of non-majority families rather than as differences …
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Socializing English-Speaking Navajo Children
… as part of everyday family life is important for language and literacy instruction. A language socialization framework was used to understand storytelling practices on the Navajo Nation. This study examined how three young English-speaking Navajo children, ages 3, 4 and 6, were socialized to tell …
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A música como terapia no desenvolvimento da criança autista
… Children) and others that aim to develop language, socialization and bring independence for a better quality of life of the autistic individuals beyond these methods we can also find the music therapy that gathers the autist with perceptive and social processes. These procedures are …
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A Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Motivation and Attitudes towards the Learning of Mandarin Chinese in the U.S.: Secondary School Students' Perceptions
… parents' perspectives on the students' Chinese language learning experiences. It aimed to provide a better understanding of what motivates secondary school level students in the U.S. to learn Chinese, as well as their attitudes towards the Chinese language, the Chinese culture, and Chinese …
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Understanding Multiple Layers of Practice: A Study on Academic Discourse Socialization in Engineering Research Teams
Academic discourse socialization (ADS) is the process during which novices and newcomers learn the academic practices and values involved in their disciplines (Kobayashi, Zappa-Hollman, & Duff, 2017). Scholars have investigated domestic and international students' socialization into academic …
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"""Am I Korean American?"": beliefs and practices of parents and children living in two languages and two cultures"
… attitudes and practices regarding their heritage language and the dominant English language among Korean American immigrant families. Using the framework of Language Ideology (Silverstein, 1979), I had three research questions: a) why do parents send their children to a Korean language school, b) …
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Early Language Learning and Teaching of Toddlers from Mexican Immigrant Homes
This two-part dissertation investigated the home language experiences and language development of 35 toddler-aged children from low-income Mexican immigrant families. These children represent a rapidly growing demographic in the United States. Because early language abilities are closely linked to …