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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"linguistic development"”.
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A Study of Temporal Variables in English and Korean: Cross-Linguistic, Development, and Native/nonnative Analyses
The present study investigated temporal phenomena in language production, using English and Korean stories based on a film. The temporal variables included were primary temporal variables (speech rate, articulation rate, pause-time ratio, mean length of runs, and mean length of pauses), secondary …
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O desenvolvimento de jogos de linguagem em crianças pequenas: uma análise dos vlogs do canal Gêmeos Ale Nanda, no Youtube
… investigate and describe the complexity of the linguistic development of language games, in the initial period of the development of language acquisition by the child. Thus, its main objective is to highlight the importance of playing language games for linguistic development, that is, for the …
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Alternative Assessment of Writing in Learning English as a Foreign Language: Analytical Scoring and Self-assessment
… a dynamic picture of students' academic and linguistic development.</p>
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Relationships between musical and linguistic skills in early development: the role of informal musical experience in the home
… gap exists when looking at the start of the developmental path of the relationship between these abilities: whereas something is known about infants and a significant amount has been learned about school-aged children, very little is known about preschool children. Aiming to fill this gap, …
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The Impact of Domestication and Mother Tongue Interference in Translation: A Case of Xitsonga
Translation plays a vital role in language development by facilitating cultural exchange, disseminating knowledge, and driving linguistic evolution. This study investigates the impact of domestication and Mother Tongue Interference on the translation of Xitsonga texts, with a focus on legal, …
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Sociodramatic Play and Child Development
… to identify and categorise some of the potential developmental benefits of this kind of play activity. It locates and describes five areas of development in particular within which sociodramatic play is seen as having an especially positive effect; these are – cognition, linguistic development, …
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A case study of students from mixed educational and linguistic backgrounds learning English as a first language in a non-racial school
… in the classroom, as well as the academic and linguistic development of the second language students. is discussed. The effectivity of the research process itself is assessed. Finally, suggestions for future research and a summary of the findings are presented.
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Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia : Using G.I.S. to reconstruct ancient ethnogenetic processes from archaeology, linguistics, geography, and ethnohistory
This thesis investigates the socio-cultural and linguistic development of pre-Columbian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the period between 500 BC and AD 1500. In assembling and analyzing data from archaeology, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, and geography in a Geographical Information …
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Integrating Language and Content Instruction: A Linguistic and Cultural Guide for Content-Area Teachers of Asian International Secondary School Students in the US
… the important role they play in their students’ linguistic development and cultural adjustment. The purpose of this project is to provide teachers of content-area classes with an easily accessible professional development opportunity, including tools they need to help their international ESL …
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Culture, Identity and Attitudes of Adult Immigrant Learners of German in the Context of the German Integration Course
… the classroom. As of today, research on the linguistic development in adult immigrant learners enrolled in the German Integrationskurs and the sociocultural factors that shape it is scarce. Consequently, the present study will contribute to the small but constantly growing body of research …
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Going global: Supporting Russian academics in writing for English-medium publication
… to succeed, as it involves primarily the development of critical research and publishing skills, not just linguistic development. This research is expected to make a useful contribution to the Russian higher education context. In addition, it will have broader implications for other …
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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
… The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic underpinnings of Latino students' text comprehension. A positive relationship appears to exist between idiom comprehension and academic achievement, as well as idiom comprehension and reading comprehension, in typically developing, …
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Using Novels in English Language Teaching in Cyprus
… study of literature to its use as a resource for linguistic development in the language classroom has marked its implementation and use. For many decades, the use of literature for language teaching was marginalised because of the advent of communicative language teaching. Nevertheless, the …
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Steg för steg. Naturvetenskapligt ämnesspråk som räknas
In this work, I present a linguistic investigation of the language of Swedish textbooks in the natural sciences, i.e., biology, physics and chemistry. The textbooks, which are used in secondary and upper secondary school, are examined with respect to traditional readability measures, e.g., LIX, …
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Lukemisen ja kirjoittamisen (luki) riskien tunnistaminen seulontamenetelmällä ensimmäisellä luokalla ja kielellisten interventioiden vaikutukset oppilaiden lukitaitoihin
… dimensioned support reduces the shortcomings of linguistic skills as well as learning difficulties arising from learning disabilities. At the moment, there are no tools available for enabling close monitoring or systematic evaluation of learning for special education teachers. This study set out …
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Writing Lawa: Stimulating indigenous ownership of vernacular literacy through action research
… I was also able to document practical language development issues in the context of an ancient but rapidly changing indigenous Mon-Khmer community in Northern Thailand. I began with the traditional linguistic assumption that building a foundation for vernacular literacy would consist of three …
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The birth of a word
… year. What is the nature of early language development and how is it shaped by everyday experience? This work builds from the ground up to study early word learning, characterizing vocabulary growth and its relation to the child's environment. Our study is guided by the idea that the natural …
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Language Contact Phenomena among Algerian University Students
Globalisation and the rapid development of technology have created an important context in which different languages and structures can be used in the same conversations. This research investigates the practice of language contact phenomena within social media using Facebook as the main platform, …
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When bilingualism meets autism: The perspectives and experiences of children, parents and educational practitioners
… of children on the autism spectrum are from linguistically diverse backgrounds. Despite a growing consensus among researchers that bilingualism is not detrimental to the social and linguistic development of autistic children, multilingual families are frequently advised by professionals to …
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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 …
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