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“Why can’t we speak in Latvian sometimes?”: learner agency in the language classroom in Latvian diaspora schools [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe Latvian language is the state language of Latvia. There are about 1.5 million native speakers of Latvian. Of these, 1.38 million live in Latvia, while the rest live across the world.
Solvita Burr
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Geography Matters: Explaining Education Inequalities of Latvian Children in England
Social Inclusion, 2022 This article explores the issue of “geography of education” focusing on the pivotal contribution of place to one’s education. The geographic location of schools and the administrative organisation of local authorities that are responsible for state ...
Olga Cara
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Latvian “active nationalists” and the Latvian Conservatory
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 In Latvia, as in several other Eastern European countries, nationalism remains an influential force that sets the agenda. Understanding the ideology and practice of modern nationalism involves studying its origin and evolution.
A. D. Malnach
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Interaktion im wissenschaftlichen Fachtext aus kontrastiver Sicht. Untersucht anhand von deutschen und lettischen linguistischen Aufsätzen [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławLinguistic specialised communication can take place in various ways, and the ‘pure’ technical language formulations are combined with those used in everyday scientific language to enable interaction between the author and the addressee, as well as to ...
Agnese Dubova +2 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Tick-borne diseases are of substantial concern worldwide in both humans and animals. Several hard tick species are of medical and veterinary interest in Europe, and changes in the range of tick species can affect the spread of zoonotic ...
Valentina Capligina +13 more
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Latvia's democratic resistance: a forgotten episode from the Second World War [PDF]
, 2009 In summer 1943 politicians representing the four main political parties of Latvia's democratic years came together to establish a movement which would both resist the German occupation and prevent the return of the Red Army. They considered the key to re-
Swain, G.
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Portable extraction of partially structured facts from the web [PDF]
, 2010 A novel fact extraction task is defined to fill a gap between current information retrieval and information extraction technologies. It is shown that it is possible to extract useful partially structured facts about different kinds of entities in a broad
Jones, Gareth J.F. +3 more
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Canonical and non-canonical conversion in Baltic [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensiaanonical and non-canonical conversion in Latvian and Lithuanian (Baltic, Indo-European) is discussed by applying the following criteria: (A) identity of form, (B) word-class change, and (C) the absence of dedicated derivational affixes.
Jurgis Pakerys
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RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2022 For the first time in the Russian-language historiography, there is examined the correlation of two approaches - ethnic and professional - in the formation of the teaching staff of the Latvian Conservatory in the first years of its existence (1919-1922).
Alexander D. Malnach
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Sexuality and nationality: homophobic discourse and the 'national threat' in contemporary Latvia [PDF]
, 2010 This paper considers why attitudes towards gays and lesbians in Latvia appear to be more intolerant than in all other EU member states. The paper argues that while the legacy of communist discourses on homosexuality and the impact of post-communist ...
Mole, R.C.M.
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