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Bilingualism and the Development of Executive Function: The Role of Attention.
Child Development Perspectives, 2015 This paper reviews research examining the effect of bilingualism on children's cognitive development, and in particular, executive function. Studies reporting bilingual advantages in various tasks are described with the purpose of identifying the process
E. Bialystok
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Language contact and language decay. Socio-political and linguistic perspectives [PDF]
, 2011 The present linguistic situation in Malta is a reflection of historical and political permutations of the past. The simultaneous presence of two languages in Malta – generally described as a bilingual situation, but which in fact includes a number of ...
Caruana, Sandro
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The Search for the American Dream:Interpersonal, Cultural, and Structural Constraints on Immigrants [PDF]
, 2020 The American Dream is a goal sought out by many people from around the globe. But immigrants must overcome many barriers that may inhibit that dream.
Smith, Milenna
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the role of virtual influencers (VIs) as critical touchpoints for enhancing consumers' “Immersive Time (ImT)”—the time spent on virtual reality‐empowered immersive platforms. By blurring the lines between virtual and physical‐world experiences, immersive platforms transform VIs into “Immersive Virtual Influencers (IVIs ...
Henrietta Batinovic +3 more
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Complementary translation [PDF]
, 2008 Translatability, as an operative concept, offers a lot of consideration on fundamental issues. The present study focuses on a special approach in translation that is influenced by social bilingualism. The translator's bilingual competence sometimes leads
Briffa, Charles
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New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Latinx and rural students share similarities in their decisions to attend local community colleges, including prioritizing factors like proximity to home, place attachments, and affordability. These student groups are often discussed in isolation from each other in the educational literature, ignoring the intersectional identities and ...
Mayra Puente +3 more
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Self-reported use and perception of the L1 and L2 among maximally proficient bi- and multilinguals: a quantitative and qualitative investigation [PDF]
, 2011 This study investigates language preferences and perceptions in the use of the native language (L1) and second language (L2) by 386 bi- and multilingual adults.
Anooshian +21 more
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Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper aims to examine the impact of innovation job requirements on expected positive performance outcomes through job crafting behaviours. It also examines how the level of technophilia moderates this relationship. The study uses survey data from 424 professional accountants in Canada.
Dima Mohanna +2 more
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Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain.
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently, bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition, and the brain.
J. Kroll +3 more
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, 2020 To test the BIA+ and Multilink models’ accounts of how bilinguals process words with different degrees of cross-linguistic orthographic and semantic overlap, we conducted two experiments manipulating stimulus list composition.
Dijkstra, T. +3 more
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