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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"language usage"”.
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Biased language usage and age in reinforcing marginalizing behavior
<p>Biased language usage is prevalent within every society and within every level of all these societies. While there are many studies that look at the psychological, physical, and symbolic manifestations of biased language, it is unclear as to when this type of behavior is recalled as being …
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The Effects of Cultural Influences on Achievement in Language Usage
… of relatively low achievement in the area of language usage.
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Construction, administration, and validation of a test of oral language usage
… them in part by their ability to manipulate the language to their advantage. And yet to measure the use of language, we rely almost exclusively on written measurements. It seems likely that students may easily learn to give the teacher the answer he wants on written tests of English usage. Oral …
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Indigenous language usage in a digital library: He hautoa kia ora tonu ai
… described in this thesis examines indigenous language usage in a digital library environment that has been accessed via the Internet. By examining discretionary use of the Māori Niupepa and Hawaiian Nūpepa digital libraries this research investigates how indigenous languages were used in these …
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Student affairs administrators' university relationships: a study of language usage in departmental meetings
… development. The study of figurative language usage provides revealing analogs to the culture, represented through attitudes, values, beliefs, and assumptions. Organizational meetings of four units of a division of student affairs at a large state university were observed over a period …
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International public relations : perceptions of the effects of language usage and culture on codes of professional standards
<p>This -study identifies how language usage and culture affect international PR practitioners in three Western cultures-- America, England and Australia.</p> <p>Likewise, this study examined how language usage and culture affect three major PR organizations-- PRSA in America, CIPR in England and …
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An exploratory study into home minority language usage and maintenance in bilingual primary school children in Northern Ireland’s growing multicultural community
… concerns about their children’s home minority language attrition.<br/><br/>Data was collected from parents and children and analysed using grounded theory and triangulated with data from a content analysis of children’s picture books and narrative accounts and compared with the academic …
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Language usage and language attitudes among education consumers : the experience of Filipinos in Australia and in three linguistic communities in the Philippines / by Iluminado C. Nical.
A comparative investigation of language usage and language attitudes in relation to Filipino/Tagalog, Philippine languages other than Tagalog and English among senior high school students and their parents in two countries, the Philippines and Australia. The study provides an historical overview of …
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Images of Change: Language and Power in the Works of Toni Morrison
… is both enabled and signified by the characters' language usage, and thereby suggests that Morrison considers language to be a primary societal force contributing to intellectual domination, as well as an important tool for transforming this intellectual domination into revelation and choice. In …
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The relationship between multilingualism and autism: a bidirectional approach to a complex issue
… responded positively about learning multiple languages (Digard, Sorace, Stanfield, & Fletcher-Watson, 2020). However, there is no research that currently captures the choices autistic adults make when using and switching between their languages. Furthermore, even though positive relationships …
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Ukusetshenziswa kolimi lwebele ekufundiseni izingane zonke izifundo, ukubuyiswa kobucikomlomo ezikoleni nomthelela wakho emphakathini nasezikhungweni zikahulumeni
… the entire research, its aims, problem of language usage, meaning of words, and the research methods. In addition to that it gives the ideas of different writers and the people that are going to benefit from the research. It also displays the outline of chapters and the conclusion. Chapter …
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The Effect Of Prekindergarten Experiences On The Intellectual And Academic Performance Of Culturally Deprived Children
… measured intelligence, visual motor skills, language usage, and concept formation among the different groups of children were also investigated. Procedure. Subjects were identified for the study by meeting specific eligibility criteria of the regulations as set down by Title I, Elementary and …
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Know your Audience: An Assessment of Preferred Learning Styles of Freshman Students at Red River High School in Grand Forks, North Dakota
… above the national average on RIT Reading, Language Usage, and Math. GPA & Learning Styles Relationship: A significant positive relationship was identified between: visual, individual, written expressive, and sequential. A significant negative relationship was identified between: group, …
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Dancing and ranting in the chat room: synthesizing orality and literacy
… is witnessing rapid changes and mutations in language usage. Synchronous conversation spaces such as Internet relay chat rooms and MOOs are contributing to the development of a new expressive form of language in literate societies. These virtual conversation spaces are textual, yet the text …
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A Comparative Investigation of the Effects of Precision of Response in Two Ninth Grade Algebra Classes
… of communication of ideas and procedures. Since language plays the key role in the communication process, it is of value to examine its effect in the mathematics learning situation. The particular topic discussed in this paper concerned itself with various levels of precision in language usage in …
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Factors Influencing Reading Ability and Self-Esteem: A Study of Bilingually Educated and Non-Bilingually Educated Students
… except for educational program followed, language usage and attitudinal differences.
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Critical opinions of Robert Browning as a craftsman 1950-1965.
… ability includes rhythmic patterns, verse forms, language usage and Browning's special poetic vocabulary. These topics seem to be the main interests of the critics in discussing Browning's technique.
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels
… in question has used English as their first language for several generations and has enjoyed some of the economic advantages attached to this while at the same time being the victims (historically) of discrimination and marginalization. The study looks at the speech of twenty speakers. Using …
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