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Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Identity and Lingua Franca in the ASEAN Region: A Comparative Study of Indonesian and Malay

open access: yesJournal of ASEAN Studies
Indonesian and Malay share a common ancestral origin. After being separated nearly a century ago, the trajectories of these two languages have diverged significantly. While Indonesian has experienced rapid growth, Malay has lagged.
Ahmad Sirulhaq, Muh Ardian Kurniawan
doaj   +1 more source

30 Years of Enamel Matrix Derivative (EMD): Biological Foundations and Systematic Review With Meta‐Analyses Across Multiple Clinical Indications

open access: yesJournal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
EMD is one of the few biological agents with human histologic evidence supporting periodontal regeneration. This is reflected in improved clinical outcomes when used in regenerative surgery for intrabony defects. Despite its biological plausibility for broader therapeutic applications, further high‐quality randomized clinical trials are needed to ...
Richard J. Miron   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Englisch als lingua franca und/oder Mehrsprachigkeit?

open access: yesBabylonia
La peur du mélange de langues est répandue. Pourtant, si tous les élèves doivent apprendre des langues étrangères, il est réaliste – et suffisant – de viser, comme objectif minimal de l’école, une compétence d’usage approximative.
Georges Lüdi
doaj  

Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
wiley   +1 more source

Is Referent Reintroduction More Vulnerable to Crosslinguistic Influence? An Analysis of Referential Choice among Japanese–English Bilingual Children

open access: yesLanguages
This study aims to examine whether a crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is exerted on the referring expressions of the spoken narratives of Japanese–English bilingual children in different discourse contexts.
Satomi Mishina-Mori   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Double Decolonization: Mainland Chinese Immigrants' Re‐Emphasis or Concealment of Chineseness in Hong Kong

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with Ching‐Kwan Lee's (2025) idea that the post‐1997 Hong Kong protests represent a series of decolonization efforts, stemming from British colonial rule and now from the Chinese ‘neo‐colonial’ regime. Instead of focusing on Hong Kong natives, however, this article presents mainland Chinese immigrants (MCIs) who live in ...
Yao‐Tai Li
wiley   +1 more source

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