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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Multilinguals"”.
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Multilinguals' language control
… explain how speakers of more than one language (multilinguals) manage to keep their languages separate and to switch from one language to the other depending on the context. This ability of multilingual speakers to use the intended language, while avoiding interference from the other language(s) …
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The Language-Dream Relationship in Multilinguals
… it comes to investigating languages in dreams by multilinguals, some studies have focused heavily on only two languages—Spanish and English. The purpose of this study was to add to the understanding of how language use relates to the dream content of multilinguals. This study recruited the …
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Reimagining Castañeda to Analyze How Districts Use ESSER Funds to Support Latinx Spanish-Speaking Multilinguals: A Multiple Case Study
<p>This study applies a reimagined Castañeda framework grounded in intersectionality theory to examine how California K–12 districts used Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to support Latinx Spanish-speaking multilingual learners (MLs) during the pandemic. The research …
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Picture This: Black Girl Multilingual Magic
… methods to center the narratives of Black girl multilinguals in two-way dual language elementary programs with the instructional languages of Spanish and English in Southern California. Using Black girlhood (Brown, 2009) and sociocultural competence (Howard et al., 2017) as the theoretical …
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Multilingual Teachers and Teachers of Multilinguals: Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Multilingual-Identity and Belief Development during Teacher Education and Training
With increased linguistic diversity in primary and secondary schools in England, it is paramount that initial teacher education and training providers train linguistically responsive teachers, equipping them with the knowledge and awareness of multilingualism necessary to move away from a …
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The Effect of Language on Cognition in an Acculturated American Sample of Healthy Older Adults
… for in each analysis. Monolinguals and multilinguals significantly differed on the Stroop Word-Color executive functioning task with multilinguals performing better. There were no significant differences between language groups among all other cognitive domains. Discussion: Implications …
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Vocabulary Testing and the Influence of Second Language on Third Language Vocabulary Acquisition
… and influence each other in the case of multilinguals are relatively scarce. This thesis seeks to contribute to this gap in research reporting two empirical studies drawing on a vocabulary testing perspective. The studies investigate the impact of prior lexical knowledge on additional …
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An Investigation of Practices, Resources, and Challenges in Mathematical Word Problem Solving among Swahili-speaking African High School Bi-/Multilingual Students in the United States
… The findings of this study showed that bi-/multilinguals translanguage in mathematics where they use their LPRs in an integrated manner, not in isolation. Since bi-/multilingual students draw on various discursive practices, their mathematics practices are oftentimes informal, making it …
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A comparison of the organizational strategies of multilingual computer programmers
… programmers, similar to natural language multilinguals, can recall more (reserved) words when they are organized by conceptual categories rather than by (programming) language. It is hypothesized that this is because human memory is organized in a fundamentally interdependent (across …
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Navigating Variability: Language Development in Linguistically Diverse Environments
… of monolingual children gave them an edge over multilinguals in comprehending unfamiliar accent varieties. Together, these findings advance our understanding of how children in linguistically diverse environments handle speech variation in their input and suggest that they adapt by developing …
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The effect of monolingualism, bilingualism and trilingualism on executive functioning in young and older adults
… bilinguals’ test performance, as trilinguals and multilinguals are often mixed in with the bilingual group. Furthermore, the results suggest that second language acquisition and language use does not consistently predict performance in trilinguals (and bilinguals), nor does cognitive activity, …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… was effective in helping understand how bi/multilinguals engage in writing and that, while the adopted curriculum approach to language and FAT is monoglossic, children's writing is heteroglossic (see also Bakhtin, 1981; Krause and Prinsloo, 2016). The implications of teaching languages as …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… to monolingual speakers. This suggests that multilinguals become more aware of the relationship between syntax and semantics and are more conscious of their effects on acceptability as the result of language study. It does not seem that this result holds for all bilinguals, since this …
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(Re)conceptualising Time and Space in Multilingual Identity Research: A Comparative Study of Public and International High School LOTE Learners in China
… struggles faced by the participants as emerging multilinguals and Japanese-as-L3 learners. The findings demonstrated the adjustment, progression and enrichment of learners’ MI, analysing the convergences and divergences in their MI development at both the individual and group levels. It was found …
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Strategy Instruction Programme with Awareness of Psychotypology (SIPPs): Developing Beginner-level Reading Skills in a Psychotypologically Distant Language
… their development of reading strategies as multilinguals. The intended contributions of this research touch upon both theory and practice. The study delves deeper into the nature of ‘psychotypology’, an area of applied linguistics that has been relatively under-researched in classrooms since …