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“Migratory Bird” Local Managers: English Proficiency, Social Identification, and Early Turnover

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local managers with high proficiency in English are valuable resources for foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, as they help mitigate language barriers between expatriate and local managers. However, such linguistically competent local managers often leave foreign subsidiaries within the first few years of employment.
Naoki Ando   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonological awareness in children: The perspective of preschool and primary school teachers [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Phonological awareness, an aspect of phonological ability, has been identified as a predictor of early reading. Since the acquisition of reading skills depends largely on the teachers who teach this skill and the relationship that is established with the
Perišić Snežana P., Minić Vesna Lj.
doaj   +1 more source

Educators' knowledge and misconceptions about dyslexia: Implications for teacher training and practice

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Dyslexia is a common specific learning difficulty that can affect academic performance and students' educational experiences. Despite its prevalence in primary education, delays in identification are still reported, sometimes associated with educators' misconceptions and limited knowledge about the condition.
Inmaculada Baixauli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Phonological Awareness in Parents of Children at Risk of Literacy Difficulties: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Boost Program

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2017
BackgroundPhonological awareness is an important skill underpinning the development of early literacy. Given the central role of parents in supporting the development of children’s early literacy skills, and that poor parental phonological awareness is ...
Mark E. Boyes   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syntactic awareness and reading ability: is there any evidence for a special relationship? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Syntactic awareness has been linked to word reading and reading comprehension (Tunmer & Bowey, 1984). The predictive power of two syntactic awareness tasks (grammatical correction, word-order correction) for both aspects of reading was explored in eight-
Cain, Kate
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of a Phonological Awareness and Alphabet Knowledge Intervention on Four Year Old Kindergarten Children

open access: yes, 2011
Phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge are two of the strongest predictors of reading acquisition. Many New Zealand children are entering school with low levels of emergent literacy skills, so an important area of study is how to boost the ...
Rachmani, Rachel Margaret
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Enhanced activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in deaf and dyslexic adults during rhyming

open access: yes, 2009
Hearing developmental dyslexics and profoundly deaf individuals both have difficulties processing the internal structure of words (phonological processing) and learning to read.
Brammer, M. J.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Dyslexia and the Phonological Deficit Hypothesis

open access: yesEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2012
The present essay aims at investigating the relationship between dyslexia, phonological awareness, and the development of reading skills, both in a first language (L1) and in a foreign language (FL) – and especially in the English language.
Costenaro, Verusca, Pesce, Antonella
doaj   +1 more source

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