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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Linguistic issues"”.
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Practical recommendations for composition instructors based on a review of the literature surrounding ESL and identity
… they lack adequate training. In addition, while linguistic issues do arise for multilingual students, addressing the issues surrounding student identity and their relationship to culture may prove more urgent in many composition classrooms. This thesis examines the literature surrounding the …
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A Meshrep in Our Home... Where There Is No Meshrep: Contrasting Narratives in the Reinvention of a Uyghur Gathering
… the word meshrep itself also reflect social and linguistic issues affecting Uyghurs today.
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The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, Soweto: slang and language contact in an African urban context
… recorder. Strong attention was given to the sociolinguistics and structure of the language collected. This thesis is interested in issues of slang use among children and language contact, as part of the larger field of tsotsitaal studies. It is interested in: sociolinguistic issues of registers, …
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Manx English: a phonological investigation into levelling and diffusion from across the water
… aims to locate the Isle of Man within the sociolinguistic field of language variation and change. Stigmatised features of speech on island communities are often cited as examples to discuss accent levelling (the loss of traditional features), in addition, the research into geographical diffusion …
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Felt senses of self and no-self in therapy
… contexts, neuroscientific conceptualisations and linguistic issues as they relate to self, using the lens of Gendlin's two ways of relating to the world ̶ interpreting according to the unit model and thinking beyond patterns, to point out conceptual confusions. Buddhist philosophy and practice are …
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Language practice as an asset in a multilingual and multicultural context.
… languages. It became pertinent to investigate linguistic issues around this new proclamation; needless to mention the language practitioners themselves as the people privileged to carry forward, and thus be the implementers of, this vision of languages. It is for this reason that the object of …
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Language Expertise as a Source of Dispute in Bilingual Couple Talk
… the data revealed several separate but related issues. First, the couples made their language expert and novice identities relevant in their talk when they conducted metalingual talk, i.e., talk about the Japanese language. Specifically, these identities emerged through repair sequences on …
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Managing linguistic and cultural diversity in Merseyside's primary schools : theory, policy and practice
… respond to the educational and academic needs (linguistic, cognitive) of LMC/EAL children. It addresses socio-linguistic issues, teaching strategies and instructional approaches related to linguistic development and academic achievement of LMCIEAL pupils. It outlines the background to policy and …