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A Systematic Literature Synthesis of 19 Years of Bilingual Education in Chinese Higher Education: Where Does the Academic Discourse Stand?

SAGE Open, 2020
In this three-phase, systematic review, we comprehensively synthesize research on bilingual education in higher education institutions over a 19-year period, starting from the initiation of this top-down educational provision across mainland China.
Fuhui Tong, Zhuoying Wang, Yue Min, Shifang Tang   +3 more
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Arabic Instructors' Attitudes on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2004
This is a study on Arabic instructors' perceptions on some aspects of communicative language teaching. The data were gathered through an attitude scale and some focus group and one-on-one interviews in a major foreign language institute involving 96 ...
Deniz Gokcora, Evrim Eveyik-Aydin
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Inter-rater reliability data of classroom observation: Fidelity in large-scale randomized research in education

Data in Brief, 2020
This dataset belongs to a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) in educational research targeting English learning students and their teachers' instructional capacity.
Fuhui Tong, Shifang Tang, Beverly J. Irby, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Cindy Guerrero   +4 more
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Building school leaders’ instructional leadership capacity through virtual professional leadership learning communities

Frontiers in Education, 2023
IntroductionResearch is still emerging on how to develop school leaders’ instructional capacity. We implemented research-based practices through virtual professional leadership learning communities (VPLCs) for building school leaders’ instructional ...
Roya Pashmforoosh, Beverly J. Irby, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Fuhui Tong   +3 more
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Family-Based Whole-Exome Analysis of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Identifies Rare Variants in BUD13, a Component of the Retention and Splicing (RES) Complex

Brain Sciences, 2021
Specific language impairment (SLI) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that displays high heritability estimates. Genetic studies have identified several loci, but the molecular basis of SLI remains unclear.
Erin M. Andres, Kathleen Kelsey Earnest, Cuncong Zhong, Mabel L. Rice, Muhammad Hashim Raza   +4 more
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The Effects of Cooperative, Collaborative, and Peer-Tutoring Strategies on English Learners’ Reading and Speaking Proficiencies in an English-Medium Context: A Research Synthesis

SAGE Open, 2021
We conducted a research synthesis to examine the impact of cooperative, collaborative, and peer-tutoring strategies on elementary English learners’ (EL) reading and oral proficiencies in studies from the United States.
Shifang Tang, Beverly J. Irby, Fuhui Tong, Rafael Lara-Alecio   +3 more
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Foreign-Language Phonetic Development Leads to First-Language Phonetic Drift: Plosive Consonants in Native Portuguese Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Brazil

Languages, 2021
Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL).
Denise M. Osborne, Miquel Simonet
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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition [PDF]

, 2010
The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e.
Wrembel, Magdalena
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Syntactic development in early foreign language learning: Effects of L1 transfer, input and individual factors [PDF]

, 2019
This study explores parallels and differences in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses between early foreign-language (FL) learners and monolingual children.
Anja Steinlen, Bishop, Burmeister, Chomsky, Christina Schelletter, De Villiers, De Vincenzi, Delis, Gerngross, Haberzettl, Hakuta, Holger Hopp, Kaltenbacher, Meisel, Paradis, Paradis, Rankin, Raven, Saunders, Sağin-Şimşek, Schwartz, Thoma, Thorsten Piske, Tracy, Unsworth, Weigl, Weiß, Wesche   +27 more
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Intonation words in initial intentional communication of Mandarin-speaking children

Frontiers in Psychology
Intonation words play a very important role in early childhood language development and serve as a crucial entry point for studying children’s language acquisition.
Yunqiu Zhang, Jiantao Li, Yang Zhang
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