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Indigenous learning gaps and home language instruction: New evidence from PISA-D

International Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Even though Indigenous exclusion in education is well understood, there is a lack of comparable evidence across-regions on the extent of the learning gap and challenges faced by Indigenous students and, in turn, which policies may mitigate them.
Marcos Delprato
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The Joy of Having a Book in Your Own Language: Home Language Books in a Refugee Education Centre

Education Sciences, 2020
In 2018, Aotearoa/New Zealand increased its annual refugee quota to 1000. When refugees arrive in Aotearoa/New Zealand they spend six weeks in a resettlement programme. During this time, children attend an introduction to schooling.
Nicola Daly, Libby Limbrick
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HOLM 2016 – The International Conference on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development

, 2017
The International Conference on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development (HOLM 2016) took place at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin in February 2016. Jointly organised by the ZAS and Griffith University (
Schalley, Andrea C, Gagarina, Natalia, Eisenchlas, Susana A   +2 more
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Comparing pre-service teacher attitudes toward the use of students’ home language(s) in linguistically diverse English as an additional language classrooms in Norway and Cyprus

Frontiers in Education, 2023
BackgroundGlobalization, increased transnational mobility, and growing refugee populations have shifted the focus from traditionally monolingual to incrementally multilingual and multicultural classrooms and have put a significant mark on language ...
Georgios Neokleous, Sviatlana Karpava
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Turkish- and German-speaking bilingual 4-to-6-year-olds living in Sweden : Effects of age, SES and home language input on vocabulary production [PDF]

, 2016
This paper investigates vocabulary production in the minority home languages of 40 Turkish-Swedish and 38 German-Swedish bilingual preschoolers aged 4;0–6;11, growing up in Sweden.
Öztekin, Buket, Lindgren, Josefin, Bohnacker, Ute   +2 more
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Factors Affecting Home Language Literacy Development in Japanese-English Bicultural Children in Japan

Languages, 2023
Simultaneous bilingual and bicultural children who are schooled in the dominant societal language can acquire literacy in their home language through home literacy practices and weekend school. Twenty-eight Japanese-English bilingual–bicultural children (
Suzanne Quay, Janice Nakamura
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Investigating the Effects of Non-Standard Dialects on the Written Competency of Setswana Home Language Grade 10 Learners [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This article investigated the impact of non-standard dialects on Grade 10 learners at the two selected high schools in Winterveldt concerning writing Setswana and how to improve the written competency of Setswana Home Language (HL) learners.
Koketso Botlholo
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Tertiary students’ attitudes towards contemporary poetry in isiZulu as a tool to enhance access to academic content

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2020
This article explores attitudes of isiZulu home-language tertiary students regarding the use of contemporary poetry in isiZulu to disseminate academic content in English. In South African education sector English remains, by default, the official medium
Muhle Sibisi, Heike Tappe
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Knowledge, attitude and practices of patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis in Bloemfontein, South Africa

The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021
Introduction: In sub-Saharan Africa, a paucity of data exists in respect of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of patients on maintenance haemodialysis (MHD) regarding the dietary adaptations they should make.
HC Spies, VL van den Berg, M Nel
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Validating the performance standards set for language assessments of academic readiness: The case of Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
Twenty-five years into the post-apartheid period, South African universities still struggle to produce the number of graduates required for the country’s socio-economic development.
Sebolai, Kabelo
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