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A personal bookshelf of foreign language aptitude publications
Language TeachingLike many in the profession, from the United Kingdom certainly, the teaching of English was a second, or more accurately, third career for me. After periods as a clinical psychologist and primary school teacher, the lure of travel took me to France.
Peter Skehan
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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The impact of second- and third-language learning on language aptitude and working memory
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020 An increasing number of adults learn more than one foreign language simultaneously. While the cognitive benefits of using multiple languages from birth have been studied extensively, little is known about possible cognitive benefits of learning multiple ...
Ting Huang +2 more
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Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
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Brain Sciences, 2018 Musical aptitude and language talent are highly intertwined when it comes to phonetic language ability. Research on pre-school children’s musical abilities and foreign language abilities are rare but give further insights into the relationship ...
Markus Christiner +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The aim of this study was to assess the predictive capacity of some of the most relevant cognitive skills pertaining to the academic field as measured by the Spanish Primary School Aptitude Test Battery. This psychometric tool was applied to all students
Ignasi Navarro-Soria +3 more
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Knowledge Management and AI‐Driven Green Practices for Sustainable Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations increasingly face strategic pressure to translate sustainability‐oriented knowledge and digital transformation initiatives into measurable environmental and organizational outcomes. In response, this study investigates how green knowledge management (GKM) contributes to sustainable business performance through the organizational ...
Hafiz Mudassir Rehman +3 more
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Revisiting Fisher's n‐D statistical vision: From algebraic abstraction to modern visualization
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract We revisit early foundational results in mathematical statistics derived by Ronald A. Fisher. They involve sampling distributions of statistics calculated from independent and identically distributed Normal observations, namely the root mean square deviation; the mean absolute deviation, conditional on already knowing the value of the root ...
James A. Hanley
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Talent Management in SMEs: Unraveling the Role of Contextual Factors
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Employing a multiple case study analysis, this paper explores the contextual factors—internal, external, and relational—that affect small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in designing their approaches to talent management (TM). Results underscore the significance of two prominent internal variables—namely, organizational size and ownership ...
Franca Cantoni +2 more
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THE QUIET BALANCE OF LEADERSHIP
Leader to Leader, EarlyView.Abstract The author is a former senior corporate executive, who is now a leadership and corporate culture strategist. He looks at the leadership displayed by Leader to Leader founder Frances Hesselbein, during her years as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, in which she “held four leadership disciplines in motion simultaneously and refused to pick a ...
Dan Pontefract
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