Non-Standard and Minority Varieties as Community Languages in the UK: Towards a New Strategy for Language Maintenance [PDF]
Supplementary schools (also referred to as complementary or Saturday schools) play a key role in teaching community heritage languages. In this way they contribute to strengthening awareness of cultural identity and confidence among pupils of migrant and
Karatsareas, P.+3 more
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MAPPING THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS OF NEWLY ARRIVED IMMIGRANT SCHOOLCHILDREN IN SWEDEN
Sweden is one of the countries hosting the largest number of refugees and other categories of immigrants. In recent decades, the Swedish school system has been entered by a sizeable group of children who are at the same time learning a new language and ...
Evgenia Rubinov
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Language attitudes and use in a transplanted setting: Greek Cypriots in London [PDF]
In this paper we explore language attitudes and use in the Greek Cypriot community in London, England. Our study is based on an earlier survey carried out in Nicosia, Cyprus and we compare attitudes to language and reported language use in the two ...
Anthias F.+30 more
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A capability approach to language education in the Gaza Strip: “To plant hope in a land of despair” [PDF]
This article proposes a shift away from competence models (Byram 1997) toward a more holistic approach in language education. Drawing on original critical participatory action research with English teachers in the Gaza Strip (Palestine), Imperiale argues
Imperiale, Maria Grazia
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Getting creative in the languages classroom [PDF]
The following principles are central to the work of ‘Linguistic Creativity in Language Learning’, a research strand of Creative Multilingualism: We create language every day. Language diversity facilitates creative diversity.
Fisher, Linda+3 more
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Towards a description of trilingual competence [PDF]
Most studies involving trilingualism have been carried out within the theoretical framework of bilingualism research. No attempt has been made to delimit trilingualism as a concept in its own right, and often it has been assumed to be an extension of ...
Hoffmann, C
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Multilingualism in Dagestan [PDF]
This study deals with the phenomenon of multilingualism common in the areas of a high level of language density. The research was carried out in Daghestan in one of the many spots where languages from several different groups of the East Caucasian family are spoken.
Àlexandra Kozhukhar, Daria Barylnikova
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Becoming multilingual. Language learning and language policy between attitudes and identity [PDF]
Many studies on language attitudes have been based on an approach in which languages are examined as an isolated unit; in other words, in these studies the participants are asked about their attitudes towards each of the languages in contact ...
David, Lasagabaster, Sandro, Caruana
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Predicting language learners' grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: the effect of some psychological and sociocognitive variables [PDF]
This study of 89 Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 (French), L3 (English) and L4 (German) investigates the effects of three higher-level personality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), one lower-level personality ...
Argyle M.+36 more
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Multilingual Education and Interference: Written Ungrammatical Tag-switching Among Pre-service Teachers of English Language [PDF]
This research aims to: (1) show the ungrammaticality of pre-service teachers\u27 (Bachelor III students\u27) written tag-switching models and this is disapproving since these subjects are English teachers-to-be.
Ndayizeye, O. (Oscar)
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