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How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT? [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings 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
openaire   +2 more sources

School students’ beliefs about the benefits of multilingualism

open access: yesJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Multilingualism is increasingly seen as a resource among researchers, educators and in society. Whereas positive beliefs about the benefits of multilingualism may foster increased motivation for language learning, little is known about students’ beliefs ...
Åsta Haukås   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conceptual Number in Bilingual Agreement Computation: Evidence from German Pseudo-Partitives

open access: yesLanguages, 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

open access: yesSocial 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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Multilingualism, Multilingual Identity and Academic Attainment: Evidence from Secondary Schools in England

open access: yesJournal of Language, Identity & Education, 2021
Multilingualism is highly prevalent in schools around the world. Yet, the relationship between multilingualism and academic attainment is not well understood.
D. Rutgers   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Developing and validating a questionnaire on young learners’ multilingualism and multilingual identity

open access: yesLanguage Learning Journal, 2021
Validation of data collection instruments is a necessary step in all research and should be regarded as an integral component in every stage of the research process; however, the validation process is often not accounted for in detail in published ...
Åsta Haukås   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A typology of small-scale multilingualism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Bilingualism, 2021
Aims: The paper aims at providing an exhaustive overview of studies of small-scale multilingualism, a type of language ecology typical of—but not exclusive to—indigenous communities with small numbers of speakers.
B. Pakendorf, N. Dobrushina, O. Khanina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multilingualism and Beyond: Implications for Education

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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