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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
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Études CréolesThe article, swiftly surveying the history of colonial catechisms written in Creole languages, focuses on those written in the peculiar Creole of the Dutch Antilles, Papiamentu.
Alessandro Costantini
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Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing
, 1997 We classify and review current approaches to software infrastructure for research, development and delivery of NLP systems. The task is motivated by a discussion of current trends in the field of NLP and Language Engineering.
Cunningham, Hamish +3 more
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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Critical pedagogical approaches such as critical literacies represent important tools for incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice into L2 teaching, an objective that is more important now than ever before. However, research has shown that implementing such practices is difficult—even for instructors who value them—due to
Julia A. Gorham
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Language and Identity: Limonese Creole and the Black Minority of Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1995 Given the general connection between the development of nationalism and linguistic uniformity, the existence of multilingualism and ethnic diversity in a country is a complex problem.
Herzfeld, Anita
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Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning [PDF]
, 2010 Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated language learning and use.
Smith, Kenny, Wonnacott, Elizabeth
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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Considering a lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese language landscape [PDF]
, 2009 This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Modeling the emergence of a new language: Naming Game with hybridization [PDF]
, 2013 In recent times, the research field of language dynamics has focused on the investigation of language evolution, dividing the work in three evolutive steps, according to the level of complexity: lexicon, categories and grammar.
A. Baronchelli +5 more
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how and why West African and Caribbean heritage mothers in the Netherlands engage in ethnic‐racial socialization. Background West African and Caribbean communities have long histories in the Netherlands. Even though parents from these communities are tasked with helping children navigate mainstream Dutch culture ...
Daudi van Veen +2 more
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