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‘Sawa Aqwa’ (Stronger Together): A multi‐site randomized controlled trial of a brief family systemic intervention for adolescent mental health in Lebanon

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background There are no evaluated family‐based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions for adolescents in Southwest Asia (known as the Middle East), and few whole‐family interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries, despite consistent evidence for the impact of family support on mental health and well‐being. This study aims to
Tania Bosqui, Felicity L. Brown, Sally Farah, Joseph Elias, Maliki E. Ghossainy, Anas Mayya, Diana Abo Nakkoul, Bryony Walsh, Sarah Chreif, Ahmad Einein, Bassel Meksassi, Roula Abi Saad, Hady Naal, Michael Donnelly, Theresa S. Betancourt, Alan Carr, Eve S. Puffer, Estefania Hanna, Hasan Mansour, Farah Semaan, Rabih El Chammay, Mark J.D. Jordans   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological Impact of Caregiving When Navigating Language Barriers in Health Care: A Scoping Review

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Family caregivers provide essential support to older adults, yet those caring for individuals who face language discordance may experience added challenges affecting their psychological well‐being. Objective To synthesize the existing literature on the psychological impact of caregiving in contexts of language discordance, focusing ...
Kristina M. Kokorelias, Bijal Desai, Peter M. Hoang, Shail Rawal, Christina E. Reppas‐Rindlisbacher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes, Scott Crossley, Wesley Morris, Joon Suh Choi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
wiley   +1 more source

Emphatic variation of the labio-velar /w/ in two Jordanian Arabic dialects. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2021
Al-Deaibes M, Al-Shawashreh E, Jarrah M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Multifaceted Role of Multilevel Statistical and Linguistic Information From Target Language in Predicting Second Language Verb–Preposition and Verb–Particle Construction Production

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how statistical properties of verb–preposition and verb–particle constructions (VPCs) and their interplay in the target language shape second language (L2) production across L2 proficiency levels. We compared phrasal frequency and three contingency measures—mutual information (MI), forward delta P (ΔP), and backward ΔP—of ...
Yanlu Zhong
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding culture, memory and trauma in asylum interviews: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Asylum seekers often struggle to recall and report their experiences during asylum interviews. This may occur for several reasons, ranging from communication challenges in high‐context cultures (relying more on indirect and context‐oriented communication) and low‐context cultures (relying more on direct and explicit communication) to ...
Md Yeasir Yunus, Lorraine Hope, Tanja S. van Veldhuizen, Jonathan Koppel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DARTS: Dialectal Arabic Transcription System

CoRR, 2019
We present the speech to text transcription system, called DARTS, for low resource Egyptian Arabic dialect. We analyze the following; transfer learning from high resource broadcast domain to low-resource dialectal domain and semi-supervised learning where we use in-domain unlabeled audio data collected from YouTube.
Sameer Khurana, Ahmed Ali 0002, James R. Glass   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source