Results 51 to 60 of about 359,156 (204)

Taking advantage of linguistic and cultural diversity through peer tutoring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Esta experiencia muestra cómo se aprovecha la diversidad lingüística y cultural de los alumnos que se forman como maestros de lenguas para favorecer su aprendizaje del español e inglés a través de la tutoría entre colegas.
Huerta Cordova, Vilma   +3 more
core  

Ensuring Linguistic Sustainability in Bangladesh: Challenges and Approaches [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
This study investigates the obstacles to language sustainability in Bangladesh, which boasts a wealth of linguistic diversity, and proposes a comprehensive plan to support this variety.
Abdul AWAL
doaj   +1 more source

The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither).Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can ...
Houghton, Stephanie
core  

Sociocultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Mid-European (Slovak) Economic and Technological Space

open access: yesИнтеграция образования, 2020
Introduction. Social cultural aspect and linguistic diversity of educational background play an important role in teaching a foreign language. Although there are a lot of publications on this theme, it is hardly possible to find surveys which study the ...
Pavol Burcl   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proposing a linguistic repertoires perspective in multilingual higher education contexts

open access: yesJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Anglophone Higher Education Institutions have embraced cultural diversity but continue to approach linguistic diversity through a deficit perspective, often treating multilingualism as an obstacle rather than a resource (Preece et al., 2018). This paper
Melike Bulut Albaba
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical and social isolation drive the evolution of Austronesian languages.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
The origins of linguistic diversity remain controversial. Studies disagree on whether group features such as population size or social structure accelerate or decelerate linguistic differentiation.
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Markets and linguistic diversity [PDF]

open access: yes
The choice of language is a crucial decision for firms competing in cultural goods and media markets with a bilingual or multilingual consumer base. To the extent that multilingual consumers have preferences over the intrinsic characteristics (content ...
Ramon Caminal
core  

Linguistics Landscape: a Cross Culture Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper was to aim in discussing the linguistic landscape. It was the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis 1997).
Duizenberg, M. R. (Max)
core  

Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored.
Galor, Oded, Quamrul , Ashraf
core   +1 more source

LINGUISTIC STRATEGY AND ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY [PDF]

open access: yes
How profitable is to know/speak one international modern language or another can be taken into consideration if we are aware that language skills have market value, implying some additional profit. We have a dimension, a commercial value of language. But
Dorina LUPAN
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy