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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"multilingualism"”.
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Multilingualism and sociocultural factors prevalent in rural language classrooms
This study aimed to identify multilingual and sociocultural factors prevalent in rural English language classrooms. The New Literacies Studies theory was the theoretical underpinnings of this study and an interpretative phenomenological paradigm was also used. Qualitative research methodology …
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Student-Perceived Inclusivity in the FYC Classroom: Embracing Multilingualism
<p>The purpose of this study was to compare student perspectives on inclusivity in the first-year English composition classroom viewed explicitly through two distinct lenses: 1. a pre-post survey design that measures students’ perceptions of classroom inclusivity and 2. instructor-perceived …
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VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
… distinctive intellectual history of South Asian multilingualism. Specifically, it focuses on the South India based Śrīvaiṣṇava religious community (c. tenth century CE onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, production of …
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Elementary school teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism and language policy: Kazan, Russia
… interests are teachers’ attitudes towards multilingualism and language policies, namely, the learning and teaching of national (Russian), titular (Tatar) and foreign (English) languages, as well as teachers’ negotiation of language policies in school. Federal, regional and school policy …
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Multilingualism and Knowledge Exchange in English Manuscripts, c.1215-c.1415
… the basis of this investigation, and shows that multilingualism, and the interaction between different languages, was more common than previously suggested by scholars, functioning as a key accelerator in the transmission of knowledge across religious and lay audiences. The texts composed and …
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Schools as fertile ground for the promotion of multilingualism in South Africa
… the most fertile ground toward the promotion of multilingualism, as stipulated by the South African Constitution (1996), particularly urban schools which are multiracial, with learners from different linguistic background. Data were solicited from schools in urban areas (English medium and …
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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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Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students
… relating to education, language learning, and multilingualism. The concluding suggestions will be relevant to scholars and practitioners from the higher education sector and others interested in the decision-making process of young people.
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The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability
This study investigates the effects of language background (monolingual/bilingual and early/late bilingual exposure), knowledge of a tonal language and music experience on auditory discrimination by employing tone and vowel discrimination tasks. A total number of 8,769 observations were analyzed …
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The relationship between multilingualism and autism: a bidirectional approach to a complex issue
The relationship between multilingualism and autism is still a vastly under-explored topic. The research that has so far been published shows a positive relationship between multilingualism and cognitive abilities in autism (Gonzalez-Barrero & Nadig, 2018; Uljarevi ́c, Katsos, Hudry, & Gibson, …
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Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning
The effects of bilingualism on cognitive control have been significantly debated, with studies reporting both positive and null/negative findings. The lack of consensus is due to inconsistent experimental instantiation of key constructs. Researchers usually employ binary approaches, reducing …
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Resisting dominant language and literacy ideologies through family multilingualism and the making of ikhaya
Multilingualism is a social practice that humans have negotiated and managed uninhibited, long before the understanding of ‘language policy' as regulating mechanism with its oppressive monoglossic language ideologies (Romaine, 2001) came into being. As a consequence of occupation and division of …
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Supporting multilingualism in Michigan schools: Educator perspectives on language education and the seal of biliteracy
… social benefits. Despite evidence in favor of bi/multilingualism, and a growing multilingual American population, bilingual education programs are scarce in the United States, foreign language education programs are being eliminated at an alarming rate, and English learners often do not receive …
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Multilingualism and Diglossia in Hong-Kong Secondary Schools: Switching effects in cognition and language processing
The bilingual advantage in cognitive switching has been extensively documented in the literature (e.g., Bialystok, 2011; Bialystok, 2015). This thesis focuses on the cognitive gains of bilinguals in task-switching, specifically. If we assume that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in non-verbal …
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Multilingualism as tool to a journalism career with special reference to journalism programmes in higher education
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Emotions and Multilingualism in L1 isiXhosa speakers: Measuring emotional resonance reduction using the RER-LX scale
… and linguistic communities. Many studies within multilingualism research, dealing with the topic of emotional resonance, indicate that multilingual individuals experience a greater degree of emotional resonance in relation to their first language (L1), in comparison to their later learned …
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Refracted Communications: Multilingualism and (Im)Purity in the Works of Maria-Mercè Marçal and Julia Fiedorczuk
… Fiedorczuk (born in 1975), who writes in Polish. Multilingualism, for Marçal and Fiedorczuk, will not only refer to the presence of multiple languages in a literary text, but also to translation; it also means a mixing of dialects and argots with the normative versions of Polish and Catalan and …
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