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Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Arabic version of the Fear of Cancer Scale. [PDF]

Int J Nurs Stud Adv
Abusaris R, Alsaqabi D, Ibrahim AFA, A'aqoulah A, Alanazi M, Alsheikh M, Albawardi F, Awawdeh M, Salem SS.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gender‐Specific Phonetic Variability in Sanzhi Dargwa

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Western sociophonetic research often overlooks minority languages. Our study targets this gap with a sociophonetic study of Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan (Russian Federation) by a small community with clearly defined binary gender roles.
Melanie Weirich, Diana Forker, Lilia Kurnosova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arabic as a home language in Sweden: family language practices and beliefs. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Bohnacker U, Haddad R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
wiley   +1 more source

Receptive Vocabulary Outcomes in Children with Cochlear Implants with and Without Additional Difficulties: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Analysis. [PDF]

Audiol Res
Hariz B, Alkoheji L, Alsaeed M, Tahon A, Alhammad S, Alhedaithy M, AlKhamiss SA, Shathan H, Alharbi T, Orabi S, El-Deek S, Cayé-Thomasen P, Percy-Smith L.   +12 more
europepmc   +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

A need or a luxury? Parents' attitudes towards international schools from a linguistic perspective. [PDF]

PLoS One
Almulhim F, Alshenqeeti H, Almoaily M, Alsaawi A, Alahmadi N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
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