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Multilingualism: Its open and hidden agendas [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013 The author analyses tendencies presented in recently launched EU reports claiming that newly published data reveal a need to rethink approaches to individual and social multilingualism. In the first part of the article approaches to individual as well as
Hanna Komorowska
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2014 South African schools continue to face challenges in implementing the official bilingual policy at the level of policy development, teacher training, materials development, language pedagogy and assessment. In general, there is a growing sense of policy
Rubby Dhunpath, Michael Joseph
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Correlative Coordination and Variable Subject–Verb Agreement in German
Languages, 2021 Coordinated subjects often show variable number agreement with the finite verb, but linguistic approaches to this phenomenon have rarely been informed by systematically collected data.
Claudia Felser, Anna Jessen
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Integrating Morphosyntactic and Visual Cues in L1 and L2 Comprehension
Languages, 2023 This study investigates the relative weighting of morphosyntactic and visual cues in spoken-language comprehension, and whether this varies systematically within and between first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of German.
Carlotta Isabella Zona, Claudia Felser
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No(r)way? Language Learning, Stereotypes, and Social Inclusion Among Poles in Norway
Social Inclusion, 2023 This study recognizes the diversity and heterogeneous nature of a migrant group that long has been portrayed and perceived in a limited way, for instance in Norwegian media, without considering the multifaceted nature of the group in question. Drawing on
Anne Golden, Toril Opsahl
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How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT? [PDF]
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019 In this paper, we show that Multilingual BERT (M-BERT), released by Devlin et al. (2018) as a single language model pre-trained from monolingual corpora in 104 languages, is surprisingly good at zero-shot cross-lingual model transfer, in which task-specific annotations in one language are used to fine-tune the model for evaluation in another language ...
Pires, Telmo +2 more
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Conceptual Number in Bilingual Agreement Computation: Evidence from German Pseudo-Partitives
Languages, 2023 During subject–verb agreement (SVA) computation, the conceptual or notional number of the subject can affect whether speakers choose a singular or a plural verb, potentially overriding the grammatical number of the subject’s head.
Jana Reifegerste +2 more
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Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
Social Inclusion, 2023 Sweden has long been described as a beacon of multiculturalism and generous access to citizenship, with integration policies that seek to offer free and equal access to the welfare state.
Simon Bauer +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 BackgroundWeaknesses in executive function have persistently been found to be associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), while bilinguals have been argued to show advantages in executive functions. While there has been some research
Franziska Köder +5 more
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Multilingualism and Beyond: Implications for Education
Journal of Language and Education, 2023 Introduction: The JLE editors explore multilingual perspectives in language learning, education, and society, as compared with mono- and bilingual perspectives.
Lilia Raitskaya, Elena Tikhonova
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