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Pedagogical Strategies to Diminish Concepts of Language Privileging Among Pre-service Teachers

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2022
Pre-service teachers are simultaneously replacing the English Learner’s home language with a foreign language for a significant segment of the student’s day, creating a situation of potential language endangerment.
Anna Burnley
doaj  

Proficient beyond borders: assessing non-native speakers in a native speakers’ framework

open access: yesLarge-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background English language proficiency is considered a basic skill that students from different language backgrounds are expected to master, independent of whether they are native or non-native speakers.
Johanna Fleckenstein   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental and genetic influences on neurocognitive development: the importance of multiple methodologies and time-dependent intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Genetic mutations and environmental factors dynamically influence gene expression and developmental trajectories at the neural, cognitive, and behavioral levels.
Bryson S. E.   +7 more
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La sensibilizzazione fonologica in lingua inglese LS

open access: yesEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2018
The present paper discusses the results of an action-research study involving a 15-year-old student who was diagnosed with severe dyslexia after coming to Italy through international adoption.
Gronchi, Michela
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and specific learning disorders on academic performance in Spanish children from a low-middle- and a high-income population

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
IntroductionPast research has demonstrated that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), specific learning disorders (SLD), and socioeconomic status (SES) affect a host of educational outcomes.
Gemma Español-Martín   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit, the Language Enterprise, and the Campaign for Foreign Languages

open access: yesJournal of Language Teaching and Research, 2015
Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language, and this lack of foreign language skills has a negative impact on the economic and national security of the U.S. and on the careers of individuals. In the U.S. the need for foreign language skills in the workforce is predicted to increase, and many positions requiring foreign ...
openaire   +1 more source

BOOK REVIEW Book Author: Kathleen Stein-Smith. Book title: The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World. Year of Publication: (2016). Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. Book pages: 123 pp. Book ISBN 978-3-319-34158-3

open access: yesMillennium Journal of English Literature, Linguistics and Translation, 2021
Kathleen Stein-Smith’s The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World is an attempt to outline a comprehensive and organized model for one of the recent trends in the field of teaching language and the importance of language.
Forough Rahimi, Gholam Shahisavandi
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Differentiation in the foreign language classroom : including students with disabilities in secondary foreign language classes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
textForeign language teachers are not generally given information about how to work with students with disabilities. However, it is important for these students to have access to FL classes, both for the cognitive benefits that they offer and for path ...
Trawick, Jessie Elisabeth
core   +1 more source

DIVERSITY, EXCLUSION AND RISK, AS SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF IMMIGRANT PARENTS ACQUIRE FIRST-TIME LITERACY IN ENGLISH

open access: yesPer Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2012
Research has shown that acquisition of literacy skills and the ultimate realisation of literacy, which involves comprehension of the written text, require more than the ability to decode individual words.
Elizabeth Snelgar, Norma Nel
doaj   +1 more source

An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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