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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
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Three’s a Crowd? Language Assistance in Mental Healthcare Settings in Slovenia
Dve DomoviniThe article addresses the inclusion of non-Slovenian speakers into mental healthcare services in Slovenia by looking at how language assistance is perceived and received during psychotherapy and psychosocial support sessions. Clients of mental healthcare
Martina Bofulin
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Modèle psycho-social et impensé numérique dans l’élaboration d’un dispositif pédagogique
Distances et Médiations des Savoirs, 2018 The paper proposes a review of an experience of participating in a Council of Europe project and aims to highlight the different issues that have been raised during the adaptation of this tool, focused on intercultural relations, on a tool focused on ...
Aude Seurrat
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Translation as intercultural mediation: setting the scene [PDF]
Perspectives, 2016 This introduction to the volume examines the concept of intercultural mediation as it applies to the work of translators. To frame the discussion, it considers what it means for a translator to mediate between languages and cultures and the ways that mediation has been used in translation studies.
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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing interest in task engagement, few studies have examined how it contributes to L2 development. This longitudinal study examined how task engagement related to gains in L2 Japanese comprehensibility among nine UK‐based university students participating in a semester‐long, video‐mediated eTandem exchange with Japanese partners ...
Yuka Akiyama +3 more
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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Critical pedagogical approaches such as critical literacies represent important tools for incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice into L2 teaching, an objective that is more important now than ever before. However, research has shown that implementing such practices is difficult—even for instructors who value them—due to
Julia A. Gorham
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Intercultural education in spanish shools [PDF]
Revista Electrónica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado, 2011 There are many initiatives about intercultural education in our country. This work focuses on highlighting intercultural teaching practices that have been done in Spain in recent decades.
Henar Rodríguez Navarro +5 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the confessional foundations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work, which have emerged predominantly from Global North traditions rooted in Christian understandings of subjectivity. In such traditions, identity is asserted through self‐declaration, visibility, and vocal articulation of difference, what we term ...
Claudia Eger, Mustafa F. Özbilgin
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In task‐based language learning, learners have to deal with the challenge of moving the task and the talk concurrently forward. In doing so, they develop sets of task‐relevant, interactional, and multimodal resources. In this study we use multimodal longitudinal conversation analysis to investigate one learner's L2 interactional competence ...
Carmen Konzett‐Firth, Ufuk Balaman
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The status of intercultural mediation in translation: Is it an absolute licence?
Topics in Linguistics, 2017 The role of translator as Sprachmittler or intercultural mediator has welcomed much attention since the advent of the “cultural turn” paradigm. The present research paper seeks to figure out how the manifestations of intercultural mediation are achieved ...
Akbari Alireza, Darani Parviz Ahmadi
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