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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Storytelling in a Bilingual Classroom Through the Lens of Epistemic Diversity and Translanguaging

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study explores the potential of storytelling as an academic activity, facilitated through translanguaging, to enhance epistemic diversity. By examining the intersection of epistemic diversity and translanguaging pedagogy, the study investigates how storytelling activities in a Turkish–English bilingual classroom impact young ...
Pelin Irgin
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Verb Frames in Primary Education: From Basic Communication to Cognitive Complexity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates text complexity in Chinese‐language textbooks for primary school students (Grades 1 to 6) in Hong Kong. Our analysis, based on verb frames in Mandarin VerbNet, shows a developmental shift in the linguistic input in first language (L1) education: Students begin with a focus on core frame elements in lower grades and ...
Tianyuan Cai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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