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Minority Language Rights [PDF]
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997 Contests over human rights as claims or entitlements to state assistance are how a major, if relatively recent, feature of the socio-political processes and institutions, of modern societies (Turner 1993). Within this wider debate about human rights, the subject of minority rights has long been of concern (Dinstein and Tabory 1992, Sigler 1983).
Nic Shuibhne, Niamh, Raigáin, P. Ó.
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Ethnic Minority Language and Sinophone Minority Literature in China
Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature, 2022 Minority authors in China are generally conceived of as having two choices: they can make an attempt at becoming “major”, by repeating the major literature’s ideological praxis (successful examples may be minority authors who become literary “masters ...
Duncan Poupard
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Minority Languages of China [PDF]
, 2007 Abstract This chapter looks at language endangerment in the People ‘s Republic of China, focusing on three of the main factors that influence language maintenance in China today: increased contact due to population movements and changes in the economy; the population policies of the government, particularly the identification of ...
Poa, Dory., LaPolla, Randy John.
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Language Ability Accounts for Ethnic Difference in Mathematics Achievement
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The mathematics achievement of minority students has always been a focal point of educators in China. This study investigated the differences in mathematics achievement between Han and minority pupils to determine if there is any cognitive mechanism that
Jiaxin Cui +5 more
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Rearticulating the case for minority language rights [PDF]
, 2003 While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key ...
May, Stephen
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Hierarchical Transfer Learning Architecture for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
IEEE Access, 2019 Neural Machine Translation(NMT) has achieved notable results in high-resource languages, but still works poorly on low-resource languages. As times goes on, It is widely recognized that transfer learning methods are effective for low-resource language ...
Gongxu Luo +4 more
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Proficiency, Attitude, and Conventions in Minority Languages [PDF]
Sociological Methods & Research, 2016 In this article, we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are fluent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of proficiency in the minority language. We investigate how different distributions of proficiency, combined with the speakers’ attitudes toward or against the ...
Ramón Escobedo +3 more
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014 The article studies the impact of the differences in the meaning of the word brzmienie in the Treaty on Friendly Relations and Good Neighbourly Cooperation of the Republic of Lithuania and Republic of Poland of April 26, 1994.
Justyna WALKOWIAK
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Fairness perceptions of video resumes among ethnically diverse applicants [PDF]
, 2012 This study investigated ethnic majority and minority applicants’ fairness perceptions (n = 445) of video resumes, compared to paper resumes. Additionally, the moderating effect of minorities’ ethnic identity and language proficiency on fairness ...
Born, Marise Ph +3 more
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Überidentifikation von Lernstörungen bei Kindern mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Implikationen für die Normierung von standardisierten Schulleistungstests [PDF]
, 2016 This German prevalence study examined disproportionate representation of language- minority students among children identified with learning disorder (LD) according to ICD-10 (WHO, 1992). Most German school achievement tests used in LD diagnostics do not
Brandenburg, Janin +5 more
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