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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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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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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Bilingual language exposure and the peer group: Acquiring phonetics and phonology in Gaelic Medium Education [PDF]
International Journal of Bilingualism, 2019 Aims and objectives: This paper aims to examine the acquisition of phonetics and phonology in the context of Scottish Gaelic immersion schooling. I explore the effect of differing home language backgrounds among primary school children on the production of laterals and stop consonants.
C. Nance
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Immersion education outcomes and the Gaelic community: identities and language ideologies among Gaelic medium-educated adults in Scotland [PDF]
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016 Scholars have consistently theorised that language ideologies can influence the ways in which bilingual speakers in minority language settings identify and engage with the linguistic varieties available to them. Research conducted by the author examined the interplay of language use and ideologies among a purposive sample of adults who started in ...
Stuart S. Dunmore
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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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Choice of Scottish Gaelic-medium and Welsh-medium education at the primary and secondary school stages: parent and pupil perspectives [PDF]
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014 Results are presented of a comparative study of the reasons for parental choice of Scottish Gaelic-medium and Welsh-medium primary education in the year 2000 and of the reasons for pupils' decisions to continue with Gaelic or Welsh-medium education at secondary school in 2007.
Fiona O’Hanlon
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Factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland: results from a national public survey [PDF]
Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016 ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland by means of the analysis of a national survey of public attitudes conducted in 2012. Binary logistic regression is used to investigate the association of five dimensions found in previous literature to be associated with the ...
O'Hanlon, Fiona; id_orcid 0000-0002-8387-3303 +1 more
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Educational Review, 2018 The philosophy of comprehensive education embedded in Scottish policy has long been recognised as an exemplary feature (Humes & Bryce, 2003). The commitment to language learning is evident in recent policy supporting primary pupils who will learn two languages as well as the language of their school (Education Scotland, 2015a; Scottish Government ...
Sarah MacQuarrie, Fiona Lyon
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