Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy +3 more
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Progress in Simultaneous Interpreting - an Evaluation of the Development of four Students
This article describes an analysis of students’ simultaneous interpreting performance. The interpreting performance of four students was recorded in the beginning and at the end of their interpreting training. The performances were then analysed by using
Gun-Viol Vik-Tuovinen
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The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency
Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
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Linguistic competence and psychopathology: construction of a test of linguistic competence.
A battery of tests for measuring linguistic competence has been constructed. The battery consists often subtests. After validation and initial trial the tests were modified and then administered in two tryouts to schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. Test retest reliability was established in both patients and normals.
V K, Varma +3 more
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Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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Are Neural Substrates of Language and Communication Distinct?
Universal Grammar serves as a basis for acquiring language competence, but it is not sufficient to acquire communicative competence. To be a competent sender or receiver of an utterance, one needs to be able to infer another person’s intentions or ...
Rytel Jolanta
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GENRE-ORIENTED APPROACH, GENRE AWARENESS AND GENRE COMPETENCE AS CATEGORIES OF LINGUISTIC DIDACTICS
The article discusses the concepts of a genre-oriented approach to teaching speech activity, genre awareness and genre competence as categories of linguistic didactics.
I A Sotova
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Intercultural Linguistic Competence Development
Key words: beliefs; intercultural awareness, new implementations ABSTRACT With new developments in applied linguistics, foreign language teacher preparation programs come under a great deal of scrutiny. Teachers have to grasp the different degrees of difficulty and the different amounts of detail involved in acquiring professional know-how and at the
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Формування інформаційно-комунікативної компетенції майбутніх філологів у лінгвоосвітньому процесі вищого педагогічного навчального закладу (Future philologists’ information-communicative competence formation in the linguistic educational process of higher pedagogical educational establishment) [PDF]
Статтю присвячено проблемі формування інформаційно-комунікативної компетенції майбутніх філологів в системі професійної підготовки. Розкрито зміст поняття «інформаційно-комунікативна компетенція майбутнього філолога».
Северіна, Т. (T. Severina)
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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