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Effects of bilingualism on inhibitory control and working memory: a study with early and late bilinguals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2011O estudo da relação entre o bilinguismo e envelhecimento é ...
Kramer, Rossana
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Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Ikizer and Ramirez-Esparza (2017) reported a study suggesting that bilingualism may have a positive impact on people's social skills. They found that a) bilinguals scored higher on a scale that is supposed to reveal social flexibility, and that b) they ...
Costa, Albert   +7 more
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On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on cognition: (How) should we proceed? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions. Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged.
Leivada, Evelina   +4 more
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Bilingualism on Bilingual People

open access: yes, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of bilingualism on bilinguals, and their lives. Before starting study, the most important question in my mind was “how does bilingualism affect people?” I have made this study by reading many articles about bilingualism and talking a few bilinguals who live Trabzon.
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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“You Have to be Willing to Look Like an Idiot Sometimes”: Teacher Experiences of the State of Bilingualism in French Classrooms in Ontario [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study aimed to explore how bilingualism is viewed by teachers in Ontario Core French classrooms. From interviews with Ontario French teachers, findings indicated several factors that reportedly affect Core French classrooms, such as definitions of ...
Wright, Rachel E.
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Bilingual education/Bilingualism [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Teaching, 2005
05–91Bickes, Hans (U of Hannover, Germany). Bilingualismus, Mehrsprachigkeit und mentales Lexikon - evolutionsbiologische, soziokulturelle und kognitionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven [Bilingualism, multilingualism and mental lexicon - ontogenetic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives]. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (Tübingen, Germany) 33 (2004),
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How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

Bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]

open access: yes
openBilingualism has widely been studied in the last decade and it has been found to enhance the individual’s cognitive and social skills. Despite initial skepticism from teachers and caregivers, bilingualism is no longer a phenomenon associated to ...
PANDOLFI, ELISA
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