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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Monolingualism"”.
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The effect of monolingualism, bilingualism and trilingualism on executive functioning in young and older adults
Bilinguals have been posited to have, compared to monolinguals, enhanced cognitive control, consequently exhibiting greater cognitive reserve, which is thought to subsequently delay the onset of clinical expression of dementia. Based on recent evidence suggesting that the more languages one manages …
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Tension, transgressions, and (contested) coexistence: Linguistic landscapes of Barcelona
… frame reflects an ideology of public Castilian monolingualism. ii. The FRAME OF NORMALIZED SEMIAUTONOMOUS CATALAN: This frame reflects an ideology wherein Catalan is the appropriate language for public use in Catalonia, but which does not explicitly reject the public use of Castilian. iii. The …
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Borderlands, Translingualism, and Latinx Students in a Monolingual Community College
… program that reaffirms both whiteness and monolingualism. I start with a local community called Aldine Texas, with an overwhelmingly Latinx, migrant, and Spanish-English borderland space. But the local “state” institutions ignore this translingualism and transnationalism and erase both the …
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Bilingual interactions, linguistic choices, and the nature of bilingual grammar: Korean students in the United States
… linguistic choices, i.e., code-switching, from monolingualism (or double monolingualism) to bilingualism—from monolingual grammars to bilingual grammars. This is not a new approach to bilingualism. Ferguson (1979) and Kachru (1987) already suggested in their early studies on multi-/bilingualism. …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
… translingualism as a viable alternative to monolingualism, and reveals how translingual literature creates transnational connectedness. The limitations of the paradigm are traced from the late eighteenth century to contemporary German literature to show how the German Romantics sacralized …
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Komiesa ko speel: Heteroglossia and Multimodality in bilingual children's play in a pre-school space
… language ideologies such as monoglossia, monolingualism, Anglonormativity and raciolinguistic ideologies and how these position children as language learners. These ideologies are juxtaposed against the concept of heteroglossia to highlight how a paradigm shift offers a different way in …
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Bernini Started It
… and entangled in a tradition of Western sexual monolingualism. What would it look like to unleash the altar from these constraints, to reorient “straightness” by centering the queer? How can we tap into this papal-sacrificial-dogmatic-lineage of legitimacy? How can we seize ecclesiastical power …
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… as a linear progress towards Chinese national monolingualism. It demonstrates the political and ritual role of Manchu and Mongolian beyond their communicative and documentary functions, and unfolds the power of language pluralism in Chinese nationalist discourse from a non-Chinese and …
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"I Feel This Challenge - But I Don't Have The Background" : Teachers' Responses To Their Bilingual Pupils In 6 Scottish Primary Schools : An Ethnographic Study
… of schools and literacy events is to promote monolingualism; - those bilingual learners who do not fit the 'Master Model' i.e. those who do not operate monolingually in the dominant language are problematic and require learning support. The cultural models which were found to influence the …
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If you have the word in Portuguese why are you going to use it in English? Language ideologies of Brazilian Portuguese speaker studying English as a foreign language in Cape Town
… several policies guided the country towards monolingualism. A bill has been recently proposed by the then congressman Aldo Rebelo, in 1999, and approved in 2007 that regards English as a threat to the Brazilian Po1tuguese language. Nonetheless, the bill has not yet been approved and still …
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Education Language Policy Process in Multilingual Societies: Global Visions and Local Agendas in India, Nigeria and Unesco
… scholarship. These include the shift from monolingualism to multilingualism as ideal for individuals and societies, perception of multilingualism no longer as a problem but a resource, heightened interrogation of ideological and political dimensionalities of language decisions in society, …
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Multilingualism and Knowledge Exchange in English Manuscripts, c.1215-c.1415
… was not an anomaly destined to yield to monolingualism, but an integral and fundamental part of England’s intellectual landscape.
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Promoting oral proficiency through art-making in grade R
… language for academic purposes. In South Africa, monolingualism is the exception rather than the norm (Olivier, Anthonissen, & Southwood, 2010). This poses several challenges to parents and teachers in selecting and using a LoLT in educational programmes (Olivier et al., 2010; South Africa, 2003). …
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Studying Abroad at 16 and “Living their Best Lives”? The social, cultural and linguistic positionings of Swiss high school students enrolled in the French-English Bilingual Matura in the Canton de Vaud
… multicompetent – a more valuable condition than monolingualism. To conclude, a tool is proposed to read the richness of each experience combining the three different positionings to personal and external factors. This table can be useful to research adolescents abroad but also to support future …
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Using semiotic resources to teach and assess scientific concepts in a bilingual Namibian primary school: A socio-cultural discourse analysis
… Centered Education (LCE) and the ideologies of monolingualism advocated in the Namibian Language in Education Policy. I undertook a small-scale, ethnographically informed case study approach to examine the nature of discourse employed by a Grade 4 teacher and his learners (aged 10- 12) in a …
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Grade 11 learners' engagement with a literature setwork (Sophiatown) through a tramsmediation project in a third space
… methods that tend to favour monomodality and monolingualism. Through the transmediation project driven by translanguaging, the hegemony of English as the sole language of power is challenged, different modes of learning are explored along with digital storytelling as one of the remediations …
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Language ideologies and Stakeholder responses to the proposed implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Grade 5 Natural Science.
… that language ideologies such as monoglossia, monolingualism and anglonormativity are imbedded in learning materials provided in school and formal assessments administered by the schools. Furthermore, it shows that colonial ideologies of some teachers and learners continue to be a stumbling …
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The Case for Contextual Linguistic Diversity: Language Profiling, Multilingual Identity, and High-Level Listening Comprehension Ability in South African University Students
… the role of language entropy, lingualism status (monolingualism, bilingualism, multilingualism), socio-economic status, and code-switching practice on this effect. Results demonstrate that contextual linguistic diversity differs between nations with South Africans scoring higher. The promotion of …
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Exploring translingual assessment for learning in multilingual grade 10 afrikaans home language classes
Multilingualism is globally inevitable, yet learners are still subjected to monolingual English and Afrikaans assessment practices. Despite South African policies advocating for multilingualism, monolingual ideologies are still hindering education in South African public schools (Makalela, 2017). …
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