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The Challenges of Irish Language Acquisition for Students with Special Educational Needs in Irish-medium Primary Schools.

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study investigated the challenges faced by students with special educational needs (SEN) when acquiring Irish as a second language (L2) in Irish-medium (IM) primary schools. Case studies were undertaken on four students with autism spectrum disorder
Sinéad Nic Aindriú
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Dearcthaí agus Cleachtais Ghairmiúla maidir le Tionchar an Tumoideachais ar Dhaltaí i nGaelscoileanna atá lonnaithe i gCeantair faoi Mhíbhuntáiste: Deiseanna agus Dúshláin

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2018
Irish immersion education, although traditionally deemed as an advantage enjoyed principally by middle-class families where parents were a driving force of demand and promotion, has become increasingly available to a more diverse body of students ...
Karen Ní Chlochasaigh, Pádraig Ó Duibhir, Gerry Shiel   +2 more
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Part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing for Irish using finite-state transducers and constraint grammar [PDF]

, 2009
In this thesis, we present the development and evaluation of a suite of annotation tools for unrestricted Irish text, which go from tokenization, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, right through to partial parsing.
Uí Dhonnchadha, Elaine
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Publicly funded private schools and academic achievement: A comparative analysis of PISA data in European countries

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya, Léonard Moulin, Denis Fougère   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining data-driven MT systems for improved sign language translation [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of combining two data-driven machine translation (MT) systems for the translation of sign languages (SLs).
Morrissey, Sara, Stein, Daniel, Way, Andy, Bungeroth, Jan, Ney, Hermann   +4 more
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Driving Motivation in Irish Language Learning: An analysis of variation in post-primary pupil attitudes to Irish in the Growing Up in Ireland study

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
This study provides a novel perspective on minority language motivation using Situated Expectancy Value Theory to examine the attitudes of post-primary students in Ireland to learning the national minority language, Irish.
Emily Barnes, Joe Condon, Ann Devitt, Noel Ó Murchadha   +3 more
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Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson, Zhe. Li, Allen Thurston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teanga sa Chistin

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2023
Despite a political environment that alternates between ambivalence and hostility, Irish-medium education (IME) is an important educational and community resource for the revival and reclamation of Irish language, particularly in the North of Ireland (Ó
Mel Engman, Órla McGurk, Alison MacKenzie   +2 more
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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
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