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Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior.
Nicolas Antunes   +4 more
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Tutor Handbooks: Heuristic Texts for Negotiating Difference in a Globalized World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
I would like to begin this article by telling a true story. When I was a graduate student earning my doctoral degree, I worked in a writing center on a midsized and predominantly white university campus.
Bailey, Steven K.
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Languages, nations and identities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article reviews a range of ways in which issues of national identity have been shown to be linked with the topic of language. We suggest that there is scope for development both of the theoretical underpinning to claims made about the nature of ...
Carter, Bob, Sealey, Alison
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Au-delà du fatalisme en éducation : miser sur les ressources de la diversité scolaire pour dépasser les déterminismes socioculturels par des approches interculturelles

open access: yesPenser l'Éducation, 2021
Intercultural approaches in education and training are often mobilized in contexts of hyper-diversity when educational systems have shown their inability to take into account social, cultural and linguistic differences of pupils and their families in ...
Olivier Meunier
doaj   +1 more source

Afghanistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
A very conservative Islamic country, Afghanistan lies on the eastern edge of the Middle East, to the west of Pakistan and India. Afghanistan is at the confluence of Iranian, Central Asian, and Indian cultural currents, and most groups within Afghanistan ...
Shay, Anthony
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he Multilingual Picturebook in English Language Teaching: Linguistic and Cultural Identity

open access: yesCLELEjournal, 2020
With the paper The Multilingual Picturebook in English Language Teaching: Linguistic and Cultural Identity, Nayr Ibrahim investigates the representation of cultural and linguistic diversity in picturebooks, and the benefits of a multilingual approach to ...
Nayr Ibrahim
doaj  

Biological and cultural diversity in the context of botanic garden conservation strategies

open access: yesPlant Diversity, 2017
Impacts of global climate change, habitat loss, and other environmental changes on the world's biota and peoples continue to increase, especially on islands and in high elevation areas.
Christopher P. Dunn
doaj   +1 more source

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Considerations for Children from Immigrant Families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
As the percentage of immigrants in the U.S. has steadily increased over the last forty years, it is not surprising to find that many children in the U.S. are now born to at least one foreign-born parent or are immigrants themselves. As the U.S.
Iheoma U. Iruka, Sandra García
core  

Cultural and linguistic diversity and interculturalism in Andalusian school: an analysis of education policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
El texto muestra parte del trabajo realizado a raíz de la participación en diversas investigaciones sobre inmigración y escuela en España. Los objetivos del artículo son: 1).
Olmos Alcaraz, Antonia
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Markets and linguistic diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The choice of language is a crucial decision for firms competing in cultural goods and media markets with a bilingual or multilingual consumer base. Insofar as multilingual consumers have preferences regarding the intrinsic characteristics (content) as ...
Caminal, Ramon
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