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Mental health and cultural and linguistic diversity as challenges in school? An interview study on the implications for students and teachers.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Mental health and cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms are part of students' lives. Both factors can lower the achievements of students and classrooms and pose a challenge for teachers.
Sanna Higgen, Mike Mösko
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Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories

Nature Communications
Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is unresolved. Using a global musical dataset of 5242 songs from 719 societies,
Sam Passmore, Anna L. C. Wood, Chiara Barbieri, Dor Shilton, Hideo Daikoku, Quentin D. Atkinson, Patrick E. Savage   +6 more
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Africa: The Impact of Colonial Imperialism on Economic Growth and Integration

Journal of Contemporary Society Education
Colonialism had a profound impact on African populations, causing tensions and disrupting traditional economies. Africa's diverse cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds influence social interactions, governance, and economic activities ...
Oseghale Christian Osemuyi
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The method behind the unprecedented production of indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2023
Reliable and updated indicators of the presence of languages in the Internet are required to drive efficiently policies for languages, to forecast e-commerce market or to support further researches on the field of digital support of languages.
Daniel Pimienta, Álvaro Blanco, Gilvan Müller de Oliveira   +2 more
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Embracing linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual EAL classrooms: The impact of professional development on teacher beliefs and practice

, 2021
This study investigated the impact of professional development on teacher beliefs and practices in linguistically heterogeneous EAL classrooms. Structured classroom observations and semi-structured interviews were used to assess the progress of three EAL
Eliane Lorenz, Anna Krulatz, Eivind Torgersen   +2 more
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The biological origin of linguistic diversity [PDF]

, 2012
In contrast with animal communication systems, diversity is characteristic of almost every aspect of human language. Languages variously employ tones, clicks, or manual signs to signal differences in meaning; some languages lack the noun-verb distinction
A Beja-Pereira, Andrea Baronchelli, D Gil, FC Dyer, K Smith, LL Cavalli-Sforza, M Dunn, MA Nowak, MB Miller, MH Christiansen, Morten H. Christiansen, N Chater, N Evans, Nick Chater, NL Komarova, PJ Richerson, R Boyd, R Jackendoff, RD Gray, Ricard V. Solé, RM Seyfarth, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, RT Hanlon, S Dehaene, S Pinker, S Számadó, SA Tishkoff, SC Levinson, TL Griffiths   +28 more
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Teaching for a monolingual school? (In)visibility of multilingual perspectives in Swedish teacher education

Education Inquiry, 2021
This article analyses the knowledge about linguistic and cultural diversity that is delineated in the syllabi of teacher education programmes for pre-, primary and secondary schools at two Swedish universities.
Carina Hermansson, Annika Norlund Shaswar, Jenny Rosén, Åsa Wedin   +3 more
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Intersectionality of disability and cultural/linguistic diversity in the UK: a literature review

Frontiers in Education, 2023
This article explores the intersectionality of cultural and linguistic diversity and having a child with a disability, highlighting the unique challenges faced by parents from a minority ethnic background at this intersection.
Gamze Kaplan, Pinar Celik
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Cultural diversity, economic development and societal instability. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2007
BACKGROUND: Social scientists have suggested that cultural diversity in a nation leads to societal instability. However, societal instability may be affected not only by within-nation or alpha diversity, but also diversity between a nation and its ...
Daniel Nettle, James B Grace, Marc Choisy, Howard V Cornell, Jean-François Guégan, Michael E Hochberg   +5 more
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Linguistic Diversity Index: A Scientometric Measure to Enhance the Relevance of Small and Minority Group Languages

SAGE Open, 2021
Current scientometric indexes do not encourage the linguistic diversity of sources cited in academic texts and researchers are not motivated to cite texts written in smaller languages.
Václav Linkov, Kieran O’Doherty, Eunsoo Choi, Gyuseog Han   +3 more
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