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Educators' knowledge and misconceptions about dyslexia: Implications for teacher training and practice

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Dyslexia is a common specific learning difficulty that can affect academic performance and students' educational experiences. Despite its prevalence in primary education, delays in identification are still reported, sometimes associated with educators' misconceptions and limited knowledge about the condition.
Inmaculada Baixauli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Lexical Coverage of Six Business English Coursebooks

open access: yesExamining the Lexical Coverage of Six Business English Coursebooks
Vocabulary knowledge is important for reading and listening comprehension. Generally, the more unknown words in a passage, the lower the probability of the learner’s understanding. The NGSL, New General Service List (Browne, Culligan, & Phillips, 2013b) corpus, has been developed in part to help learners and researchers understand what kind of words ...
openaire  

‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.
Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

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