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Tracking Biliteracy Skills in Students Attending Gaelic Medium Education: Effects of Learning Experience on Overall Reading Skills [PDF]
Languages, 2021 This study describes the validation of a reading assessment developed for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language spoken in Scotland. The test is designed to investigate the areas of reading for understanding, reading errors and reading speed.
Euan Dickson +3 more
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Language and Cognition in Gaelic-English Young Adult Bilingual Speakers: A Positive Effect of School Immersion Program on Attentional and Grammatical Skills [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The present study investigates linguistics and cognitive effects of bilingualism with a minority language acquired through school medium education. If bilingualism has an effect on cognition and language abilities, regardless of language prestige or ...
Maria Garraffa +3 more
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Educational and Child Psychology, 2014 A distinctive feature of education in Scotland is the provision of Gaelic-medium education (GME), which spans preschool, primary and secondary education. During 2010–2011, over 2000 children were enrolled within 60 primary schools in 14 education authorities.
Macquarrie, Sarah, Lyon, Fiona
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Education in the North, 2023 This paper explores the findings of a small-scale mixed methods study set in one school which set out to investigate the effects of the school closures because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent home-learning periods, on language acquisition in ...
Ingeborg Birnie, Kerrie Kennedy
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Journal of Language and Education, 2021 Language learning, as a means to promote intercultural awareness and communication as well as to help citizens prosper professionally, is one of today’s main goals of educational systems around the world. In Europe, several guidelines have been published,
Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo +2 more
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Public Health Research, 2023 Background The need to engage boys in gender-transformative relationships and sexuality education (RSE) to reduce adolescent pregnancy is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...
Lohan Maria +23 more
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Technology-enabled professional learning in remote rural minority language classrooms
Education in the North, 2020 Participation in professional learning is a challenge for teachers in small remote rural schools, particularly those who teach in a minority language. Multiple factors isolate Gaelic Medium education teachers and make professional learning more difficult
Rachel Shanks +2 more
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Cognitive effects of Gaelic medium education on primary school children in Scotland [PDF]
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018 Research has shown that learning more than one language may have beneficial effects on executive functions, such as focused attention, inhibitory control, and switching between tasks.
Ruth Cape +3 more
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Benefits of bilingualism - Buannachdan Dà-Chànanas Agus Foghlam Tro Mheadhan Na Gàidhlig
Education in the North, 2009 In this article Christina Walker, Lecturer in Gaelic Medium Education, Aberdeen University, discusses the benefits of bilingualism and Gaelic Medium Education.
Christina Walker
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Cothroman air Foghlam Fad-beatha do dh’oileanaich 'abaich
Education in the North, 2016 Thagh mi an dà artaigil Dè na buannachdan a tha ann an dà-chànanas? agus Cothroman air Foghlam Fad-beatha do dh’oileanaich 'abaich' oir tha na cuspairean a th’ air an deasbad annta a’ buntainn ri foghlam an latha ’n-diugh mar a bha iad aig an àm aig an ...
Christina Walker
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