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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an understanding of heritage prosody : acoustic and perceptual properties of tone produced by heritage, native, and second language speakers of Mandarin [PDF]

, 2016
In previous work examining heritage language phonology, heritage speakers have often patterned differently from native speakers and late-onset second language (L2) learners with respect to overall accent and segmentals.
Yao, Yao, Yao, Y, Chang, Charles B., Chang, CB, Chang, Charles   +4 more
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Multilingual Competence Influences Answering Strategies in Italian–German Speakers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
The present study aims at analyzing the role of nativeness, the amount of input in L1 acquisition and the multilingual competence in the performance of Italian–German bilingual speakers. We compare novel data from the performance of adult L2 learners (L1:
Irene Caloi, Adriana Belletti, Adriana Belletti, Cecilia Poletto, Cecilia Poletto   +4 more
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‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turkish heritage speakers in Germany [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract In the present chapter, first, the migration background of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany will be described.
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022
Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation , which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically ...
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How Media Represent Australian Indigenous Business: Comparing Australian and International Coverage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Media representations of Indigenous business shape public perceptions, investor confidence and consumer demand, influencing how Indigenous enterprises are valued and understood. This Indigenous‐led study systematically reviews grey literature on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses published between 2006 and 2024 ...
Maria Raciti, Marnee Shay, Bronwyn Fredericks, Daeul Jeong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Language Experience in the Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement: A Study with Nonce Nouns

Languages
Why is learning the gender of nouns so difficult for some bilinguals? We test the hypothesis that different language learning backgrounds or life experience with Spanish determine how learners follow different morphosyntactic cues for gender assignment ...
Silvina Montrul, Sara Ann Mason, Andrew Armstrong   +2 more
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