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Global aspirations and local limitations: Employment experience of Nigerian international students in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Nigeria is the UK's third largest market for higher education, but there is limited empirical research on Nigerian international students' employment experiences. Drawing on the concepts of neo‐racism and agency, this research explores how 25 Nigerian international students exercise their agency to pursue or refrain from seeking employment ...
Ming Cheng, Clarisse Albia, Olalekan Adekola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specifics of Phraseology for specific purposes

The comparison of phraseology of general language and of language of foreign trade show some specifics of the phraseology of language for specific purposes.
Věra Höppnerová
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French for specific purposes as a linguadidactic problem

, 2007
The aim of the thesis is to give the eoherent view of teaehing French for specific purposes and to contribute the improvement relevant to the specific subgroups of didactics of foreign languages: didactics of French for specific purposes.
Horová, Helena
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Socioeconomic status, parenting factors and academic achievement among Chinese adolescents aged 12–13: How do they relate?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has shown that students from higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds generally outperform their lower SES peers. Nevertheless, some low SES students succeed, albeit it ‘against the odds.’ Coleman's (1988) theory of social capital in the family suggests that financial capital, human capital and social capital all affect
Fang Xu, Steve Strand
wiley   +1 more source

TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: MOTIVATION AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation
Abstract  One of the most notable features of recent years in the field of linguistics and didactics of foreign languages is the increase of interest in languages for specific purposes. This development is driven by incoming demand from work and academic domain, with the significant need to study a foreign language for specific purposes. The purpose
openaire   +2 more sources

The opportunity state and governing by benefits: Economic governmentality in Hong Kong's national education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract National education in Hong Kong, understood here as a suite of state‐led curricular, co‐curricular and public‐pedagogy measures designed to cultivate national identity, constitutional loyalty and alignment with national development, has become a major focus of educational reform since 2020.
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Diversity & Language Education Conference conference program

, 2004
his conference focuses on theories, policies, and practices associated with cultural and language diversity in educational contexts. The conference provides a forum for examining a broad range of issues concerned with the potential and challenges of ...
National Foreign Language Resource Center
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Reading in a foreign language for academic purposes: A case for the use of language-specific reading strategies.

, 2009
Provides an insight into the nature of the use of reading strategies when reading in a foreign language for academic purposes. While the foreign language studied in this paper is German, the findings that are presented are likely to have considerable ...
Hahn, D.
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ESP and listening: theory, technology, and multimodality

The study of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) listening is not complete without an understanding of the general ability to listen in a second language.
Lee, Jean Choong Peng, Goh, Christine C. M.   +1 more
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Deciphering Nazi Racial Sorting: The Challenges of Attempting a Big Data Approach

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
In 2019 I started analyzing a large set of “race cards” preserved in the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv). These cards document anthropometric measurements performed by SS experts during WWII in the territories occupied by the Nazi regime. Applying a big data approach, my goal was to use those cards to study the inner dynamics of the racial ...
Amir Teicher
wiley   +1 more source