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Designing TED-TI instructional strategy: tackling high-density classroom management dilemmas and tapping into the employment potential of native-language public speaking education

Cogent Education
Given the profound impact of Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Talks and Toastmasters International (TI) on Public Speaking Competency (PSC), this study aimed to integrate them into the local non-English speaking tertiary vocational education ...
Xiaojian Zheng, Mohd Hazwan Mohd Puad, Habibah Ab. Jalil, Wei Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The importance of mother tongue maintenance in international schools [PDF]

Nastava i Vaspitanje, 2019
The increasing mobility of people implies an increasing number of students who start mastering two or more languages. A number of educational institutions provide schooling for different populations of migrant children. International schools are one type
Milošević Olja
doaj  

From Mother Tongue Education To Multilingual Higher Education

, 2012
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Amaya, Mario R. Acevedo, Reyes, Fernanda M. Martinez   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Effects of prematurity and socio‐economic status on early life language exposure: A video coding study

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Preterm birth is associated with later language impairment and delay. Socio‐economic deprivation is linked to decreased language exposure in early childhood, but it is unknown how prematurity influences this relationship. This study investigated the effects of socio‐economic status and gestational age at birth on language exposure, in a sample
Sinéad O'Carroll, Bethan Dean, Yu Wei Chua, Victoria Ledsham, James P. Boardman, Sue Fletcher‐Watson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oral Health Care Services, Barriers and Enablers to Maintaining Good Oral Health in Motor Neurone Disease: A Scoping Review

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The objective of this scoping review was to map existing literature on oral health and related care in individuals with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Specifically, the review aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to maintaining oral hygiene, summarise available clinical guidelines and patient‐facing resources, and examine how ...
Mariam A. Khokhar, Lucy A. O'Malley, Anne‐Marie Glenny, Xiaohui Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Significant Considerations When Matching Foster Families and Children With Migrant Backgrounds: Reflections of Social Workers in Norway and Sweden

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child welfare services in Norway and Sweden proclaim the importance of considering continuity in the child's upbringing and ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background when placed in foster care. Drawing on seven vignette‐based focus group discussions with social workers in Norway (12 participants) and Sweden (14 participants), this ...
Elin Hultman, Milfrid Tonheim, Linnea Roslund Gustavsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering children as active and responsible citizens: A dramatic journey towards global citizenship

Children &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates three key moments from a sequence of learning facilitated within a Singapore preschool. Delivered as part of a wider study aimed at identifying the value of dramatic pedagogies for developing young children's global competence, the learning sequence was facilitated by the researcher—an experienced early childhood ...
Elaine Ng
wiley   +1 more source

Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing environmental misperceptions for nature recovery

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract A poorly understood and systemic challenge to global conservation agreements is shifting baseline syndrome (SBS), wherein people misperceive the extent to which nature has changed. This can diminish societal expectations for nature recovery. We broadened the conceptual framing of SBS beyond the more common elements of nature loss to include ...
Shuo Gao, Sophus O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, Joseph W. Bull, E. J. Milner‐Gulland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers to language maintenance and multilingual schooling: examining the language policy provisions in Nepal’s constitutions

Cogent Education
Despite Nepal’s huge linguistic diversity, maintaining minority languages and providing the mother tongue-based education to non-dominant language children are Nepal’s two major obstacles.
Puskar R. Joshi, Zohreh R. Eslami
doaj   +1 more source