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Mental health and cultural and linguistic diversity as challenges in school? An interview study on the implications for students and teachers. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Mental health and cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms are part of students' lives. Both factors can lower the achievements of students and classrooms and pose a challenge for teachers.
Sanna Higgen, Mike Mösko
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Intersectionality of disability and cultural/linguistic diversity in the UK: a literature review

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
This article explores the intersectionality of cultural and linguistic diversity and having a child with a disability, highlighting the unique challenges faced by parents from a minority ethnic background at this intersection.
Gamze Kaplan, Pinar Celik
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Linguistic Diversity Index: A Scientometric Measure to Enhance the Relevance of Small and Minority Group Languages

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Current scientometric indexes do not encourage the linguistic diversity of sources cited in academic texts and researchers are not motivated to cite texts written in smaller languages.
Václav Linkov   +3 more
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The effect of cultural and linguistic diversity on pregnancy outcome [PDF]

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2010
Background:  Cultural and linguistic diversity in Australia is increasing rapidly. Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women include those born outside Australia/New Zealand, non‐English speaking, non‐Caucasian and refugees. Individually, each of these factors has the potential to influence health and pregnancy outcomes.Aims:  The aim of this ...
Michael Beckmann, Kristen Gibbons
exaly   +6 more sources

The method behind the unprecedented production of indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet

open access: yesFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2023
Reliable and updated indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet are required to drive efficiently policies for languages, to forecast e-commerce market or to support further researches on the field of digital support of languages.
Daniel Pimienta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching for a monolingual school? (In)visibility of multilingual perspectives in Swedish teacher education

open access: yesEducation Inquiry, 2021
This article analyses the knowledge about linguistic and cultural diversity that is delineated in the syllabi of teacher education programmes for pre-, primary and secondary schools at two Swedish universities.
Carina Hermansson   +3 more
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Cultural diversity, economic development and societal instability. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2007
BACKGROUND: Social scientists have suggested that cultural diversity in a nation leads to societal instability. However, societal instability may be affected not only by within-nation or alpha diversity, but also diversity between a nation and its ...
Daniel Nettle   +5 more
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Languages in the Avenida Lourenço Peixinho in Aveiro: educational potential to raise awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity

open access: yesIndagatio Didactica, 2019
Acknowledging the educational potential of linguistic landscapes, this paper sets out to: - identify the foreign languages present in the Avenida Lourenço Peixinho in Aveiro (Portugal) and the linguistic landscape signs in which they appear; - propose an
Sara Santos, Susana Pinto
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La dimension interculturelle dans l’enseignement/apprentissage du français en Algérie entre représentations et connaissances culturelles

open access: yesMultilinguales, 2014
Teaching language in essence is conceived a cultural activity. To teach one or several languages is to educate for linguistic diversity and hence cultural diversity.
Nabila Hamidou
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Is Cultural Responsiveness Part of Effective Teaching?: Preservice Teacher Perspectives

open access: yesGeorgia Educational Researcher, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which preservice elementary teachers integrated culturally responsive pedagogy into their perspectives on effective teaching and being an effective teacher and if these perspectives changed over ...
Yasar Bodur
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