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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"language diversity"”.
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Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Toward Language Diversity
… examines pre-service teachers' attitudes toward language diversity and linguistically diverse students. Two hundred seventy-one teacher education students were surveyed to determine relative effects of demographic, mediating variables and psychosocial variables on language attitude as measured by …
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Management of language diversity in international supply chain relationships of UK SMEs
Although language has claimed a place in the field of international business studies, the vast majority of research in this area has focused on language management practices in multinational organisations, and has therefore largely ignored the question of how small organisations cope with …
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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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Why Do They Talk That Way?: Teachers' Perceptions of the Language Young Students Bring into the Classroom
The language children bring to the classroom (home language) is often different from the language that is expected or accepted in schools. These language differences are often met with a variety of reactions from teachers. The purpose of this research is threefold: (a) to apply a narrative inquiry …
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Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback and Accent Modification: Effects on Consonant and Vowel Accuracy for Mandarin English Language Learners
… of individuals in the United States who speak languages other than English continues to increase. With the increase of language diversity comes a potential rise in communication challenges for those who speak with non-mainstream American English accents as English language learners. A portion …
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Language and the role of interpreting in South African psychiatry : a study of institutional practice in the Western Cape
… three studies aimed at documenting the impact of language diversity on psychiatric service provision in institutional settings in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Speakers of indigenous languages other than Afrikaans invariably require the assistance of an interpreter to access services …
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Learning at the boundary of the firm : learning-by-interaction between a manufacturer and its users
… development of new products lies the issue of a language problem. When manufacturer and its users are engaged in the new product development process, they will naturally speak different languages. Investigation into the communication between seemingly disparate groups - a manufacturer and its …
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Automating systematic literature reviews in healthcare: leveraging artificial intelligence for enhanced evidence-based decision making.
… of AI methodologies, including natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL), to automate and expedite the identified stages. The study explores the integration of domain-specific knowledge into pre-trained large language models (LLMs) and evaluates …
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Towards Large Language Models for Everyone: Instruction Following, Knowledge Retrieval and Multilingualism
Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of Natural Language Processing and demonstrated the potential to fuel a variety of AI applications. Nonetheless, building them in a way that maximally benefits the very wide range of everyday use cases is challenging. Firstly, LLMs …
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The impact of the language barrier on the management of multinational companies : a case study and survey, based exploration of the impact of the language barrier on the strategies, policies and systems by which multinational companies manage their subsidaries
… begins with a conceptual model of the way that language diversity affects the strategies, organisation and subsidiary control policies of multinational companies. The model is based solely on the researcher'’ personal experience of working in a variety of international management roles, but in …
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Does the learner profiler successfully screen for neurodiversity and predict neuropsychological outcomes in high school learners?
… require expertise in administration, and lack language diversity. Therefore, computerized assessments, such as the Learner Profiler, have been put forward as a useful supportive tool to aid the screening for, and identification of, learning difficulties and disabilities. The current study …
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Parental Involvement: Teachers' And Parents' Voices
… issues surrounding linguistic and cultural diversity and both sides become mired in their differences rather than building upon their commonalities. Barriers to parental involvement can come from the family as well as the school. The purpose of this study was to examine those barriers from …
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Making youth matter: Exclusion and its impact on the school lives of African-American students
… education, debilitating discipline, the need for language diversity, and persistence and resilience. These themes were analyzed in relation to their intersectionality with language, culture, ethnicity, race, class, and gender.</p> <p>The conceptual frameworks shaping the study included Culturally …
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Chinese Heritage Language Maintenance and Identity Construction: Investigation of the Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in New Zealand
… study attempts to shed light on Chinese heritage language (CHL) maintenance and identity construction in Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand by investigating the implementation of family language policy (FLP) and the sequential outcomes of CHL competency. Accordingly, it provides valuable …
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A Delphi Study of California Community College Counselors' Responsibilities and Competencies for the 1990's as Perceived by Chief Student Services Administrators
… the key community college issues of cultural and language diversity, adult development, learning styles, affirmative action and traditional counseling topics. (5) Five crucial professional preparation topics for prospective community college counselors include: Community College Mission and …
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Learner autonomy in the UAE context : an investigation of students’ beliefs and conceptions of autonomy in learning English language
… autonomy in learning English. Given the extreme language diversity in theUAE, it is imperative that Emirati citizens excel in English due to its position as the linguafranca of the business and social segments. In second language learning, autonomy ispresented as a promising learning construct …
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“The furious friend whacked with books” interferes: The effect of concurrent experiences of English on the learning of artificial phonotactic rules
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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An investigation of teachers',pupils'and parents perceptions towards the use of Chinyanja as a medium of instruction at lower primary schools: A case of selected primary schools in Lusaka district,Zambia
… that teachers perceived using Chinyanja as a language of instruction beneficial to the pupils in the early stages of literacy development because it enhanced increased teacher-pupil interaction in the learning process. This study also established that pupils do not support learning in …
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"""You don't speak correct English"": Teacher knowledge about linguistic diversity/language acquisition and its role in pedagogy"
… to investigate teacher knowledge of linguistic diversity, particularly African American Language. This study is foregrounded by the language of all students and the ways teachers enact knowledge about this topic in their classrooms. Language is, after all, a foundation for all learning; academic …
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Language ideologies and Stakeholder responses to the proposed implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Grade 5 Natural Science.
… natural science teachers', learners and parents' language ideologies and responses towards Mother Tongue Based Bilingual education that has been proposed by the Department of Basic Education starting in 2025. First, it probes teacher's linguistic repertoires, their understandings of …
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