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Taiwanese multiculturalism and the political appropriation of new immigrants’ languages

Comparative Education, 2022
Since 2019, Taiwan has implemented native language education for ‘new immigrants’ from Southeast Asian countries. This paper argues that the new educational provisions reflect the Taiwanese government’s desire to appropriate new immigrants’ cultures and ...
Haruna Kasai
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Establishing multiple languages in early childhood. Heritage languages and language hierarchies in German-English daycare centers in Switzerland.

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The number of conceptually bilingual daycare centers has been steadily increasing in Switzerland, a traditionally multilingual country. Yet, the focus on the languages introduced in these institutions has largely remained on one national language – and ...
Anna Becker-Cavallin, A. Knoll
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Functional and Facilitating: A Look into the Promotion and Standardization of Dutch as the Official Language in the Netherlands

Politeja, 2021
Dutch society is open and international-oriented. A long standing tradition of world trade has contributed to the English proficiency of Dutch citizens.
Zhang Jiachen
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Promoting Spanish Language in the Philippines: Politics, Representations, and Discourses

Forma y Función, 2021
Over 150 languages are spoken in the Philippines. Considering that only English and Filipino are the official national languages, this is a contentious arena in the Philippines.
José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez
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The Spread of Chinese-character Culture on the Silk Road During the Tang Dynasty

Contemporary Social Sciences, 2017
The spread of Chinese characters and Chinese classic works during the Tang Dynasty presented diversified discourses of acceptance and development in different periods and regions.
Zheng Acai
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NCHLT Auxiliary speech data for ASR technology development in South Africa

Data in Brief, 2022
The aim of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) project was to create speech and text resources that would enable Human Language Technology (HLT) development for the 11 official languages of South Africa. The speech data described in
Jaco Badenhorst, Febe de Wet
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Anxiety and depression in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national survey.

Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 2020
Depression and anxiety are the most prevalent mental health problems in Canada The COVID-19 pandemic will likely result in a large increase in the incidence and prevalence of anxiety and depression and experts are already warning of an "echo pandemic" of
D. Dozois
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Manuels utilisés dans l'enseignement de la langue dans les écoles à pédagogie convergente

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2000
This article looks at the use of text books in French and national languages in the type of bilingual education known as convergent pedagogy, which is now the official educational programme in Mali.
Soumana Kané
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Official status of languages in the UK and Ireland [PDF]

, 2018
What are the official languages of the United Kingdom and of Ireland? Constitutions typically provide a starting point, although the answer is clearer in the case of the latter than the former.
Mac Sithigh, Daithí
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État des langues en Guinée équatoriale

Contextes et Didactiques, 2016
Equatorial Guinea is located in Central Africa. It has three Bantu languages (bubi, fang and ndowe) and two Creoles; one with Portuguese lexical basis (the fá d’ambô) and the other with English lexical basis (the krio).
Adeline Darrigol
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