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Supporting English language learning by bridging from childrens' first languages in Papua New Guinea: An analysis of Grade 3 teachers' conceptions and practices

open access: yes, 2010
This is a descriptive study that was conducted with selected Grade 3 teachers in the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea. Grade 3 teachers implement bridging in bilingual education using the children's local vernacular language and/or Tok Pisin
August, Matilda
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Bilingual (dual language) programs

open access: yes, 2013
The programs described in this chapter are “bilingual ? or “dual language ? in the sense that two different languages-English as well as the native language of the studentsare used for instructional purposes.
Rosenthal, Judith W.
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The Effects of PLUSS: Adapting an Evidence‐Based Reading Intervention for Multilingual Learners

open access: yesPsychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The effects of an evidence‐based literacy intervention with and without added supports to address the unique needs of multilingual learners (MLs) were assessed through an ABAB single‐case withdrawal design. The dual dependent variables were reading fluency/accuracy and performance on the workbook that included spelling, vocabulary, and reading
Amanda K. Sanford   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Benefits of Being Bilingual: Working Memory in Bilingual Turkish-Dutch Children

open access: yes, 2014
Whether bilingual children outperform monolingual children on visuospatial and verbal working memory tests was investigated. In addition, relations among bilingual proficiency, language use at home, and working memory were explored. The bilingual Turkish–
Blom, W.B.T.   +6 more
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From Plot to Block: Participatory Land Use for Climate‐Resilient Detached Housing in Finland

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how urban planning in Finland is adapting to climate change, focusing on the practical challenges planners face in single‐family housing areas. It draws on participatory workshops with municipal planners in Pori and Joensuu, where three planning tools—green factor metrics, impermeable surface limits, and the 3–30‐300 ...
Hossam Hewidy
wiley   +1 more source

Sociololinguistic competence and the bilingual's adoption of phonetic variants: auditory and instrumental data from English-Arabic bilinguals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This study is an auditory and acoustic investigation of the speech production patterns developed by English-Arabic bilingual children. The subjects are three Lebanese children aged five, seven and ten, all born and raised in Yorkshire, England ...
Khattab, Ghada
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Embedding Sustainability Commitments in the Strategic Plans of European Higher Education Institutions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses how European universities embed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their strategic planning, proposing an integrative and multistakeholder measurement tool—Strategizer Scoring System (SDG‐3S). The research combines the Delphi method, content analysis of 198 strategic plans from universities in 33 European ...
Sandra Barrio Campo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unsupervised Bilingual POS Tagging with Markov Random Fields

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper, we give a treatment to the problem of bilingual part-of-speech induction with parallel data. We demonstrate that naive optimizationof log-likelihood with joint MRFs suffers from a severe problem of local maxima,and suggest an alternative –
Chen, Desai   +3 more
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¡Muévete! Integrating physical education and language learning in bilingual classrooms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Presentation sharing strategies for developing academic vocabular in Spanish and English through movement.
González-Carriedo, Ricardo   +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and China

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is a general‐purpose technology with wide‐ranging implications for sustainable development; yet, little is known about how its innovation trajectories have aligned with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ern Chern Khor, Moon Choi
wiley   +1 more source

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