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British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Executive functions (EFs) are critical in school and closely linked to academic achievement and learning‐related behaviours (LRBs). LRBs encompass the ability to adapt to school demands, including concentration, adherence to rules, and autonomy.
Carlotta Rivella, Paola Viterbori
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Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract The paper examines the significance of translating sanctuary in an officially bilingual (and multilingual in practice) national polity. By examining the different meanings of the translation of 'sanctuary' into ‘lloches’ and ‘noddfa’ in Welsh, we outline the different openings for more nuanced understandings of ‘host’/‘guest’ relations ...
Catrin Wyn Edwards, Rhys Dafydd Jones
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we juxtapose two international contexts of higher education to critically examine both the situated complexity of (restrictive) ideologies of multilingualism and the ways such ideologies inform multilingual students’ choices of language use that contribute to their own epistemic exclusion in Canada and Germany.
Sílvia Melo‐Pfeifer, Vander Tavares
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Language proficiency is predicted to modulate orthographic-semantic association in second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition, in accordance with the assumptions of the Developmental Bilingual Interactive-Activation model (BIA-d) (Grainger et al., 2010).
Lijuan Liang +4 more
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How Literacy Shapes Orthographic Processing
, 2022 Reading is an indispensable skill in our society and, thus, so much part of daily life that we do not realize how complex this skill is. The eyes fixate most words in the text being read, and typically only once. This implies that readers get a foveal glimpse of most words, and that an essential first stage of skilled reading behavior concerns the ...
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Translanguaging theory and practices have enabled multilingual spaces where students’ full linguistic repertoires are valued, explored, and utilized by educators as resources across educational settings. However, research reporting supervision pedagogies incorporating international doctoral students’ multilingualism as intellectual resources ...
Wei Liu +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multimodal reading skills are essential for 21st‐century students to interpret and navigate information across various modalities on the Internet and in multimedia environments. While previous studies have delved into the effects of lower‐ and higher‐level cognitive skills on traditional reading comprehension, which involves solely written ...
Yaping Liu, Choo Mui Cheong, Xinhua Zhu
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Neural Correlates of Morphological Processing: Evidence from Chinese
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 Morphological decomposition is an important part of complex word processing and the left inferior frontal gyrus (L-IFG) has been shown to be a key brain area involved in morphological processing in alphabetic languages.
Lijuan eZou +4 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multilingualism is very prevalent in German schools. However, the German school system does little justice to this fact and persists in a monolingual habitus. This appears problematic not only in respect to educational equity, but it also undermines holistic approaches to learning.
Nora von Dewitz +2 more
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Rapid implicit extraction of abstract orthographic patterns of Chinese characters during reading.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Orthographic processing is crucial in reading. For the Chinese language, sub-lexical processing has already taken place at radical level. Previous literature reported early position-specific radical representations and later position-general radical ...
Xiaochen Zhang, Siqin Yang, Minghu Jiang
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