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

Thunderbird 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, Manami Suzuki, Hidehiko Nishikawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between phonological awareness and fine motor skills in younger school-age children [PDF]

Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija
Introduction. Although the correlation between motor and language development has been analyzed through various studies, the correlation between phonological development and fine motor skills in younger school-age children has not been sufficiently ...
Janjić Jovana P., Nikolić Snežana J.
doaj   +1 more source

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

British 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, Emilio Benítez, Carmen Berenguer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Responsive socio-cultural contexts: Supporting five year olds to become literate in a second language. [PDF]

, 2012
Learning one's own indigenous language and culture as a second language learner within formal mainstream education settings can pose many challenges, especially for students who have been raised in the dominant first language and who are just beginning ...
McDonald, Riria, Berryman, Mere, Woller, Paul Robert, Woller, Paul   +3 more
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Improving Phonological Awareness in Parents of Children at Risk of Literacy Difficulties: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Boost Program

Frontiers 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, Suze Leitão, Mary Claessen, Peta Dzidic, Gemma Boyle, Alison Perry, Mandy Nayton   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Symbolic Numerical Magnitude Processing Is as Important to Arithmetic as Phonological Awareness Is to Reading

PLoS ONE, 2016
In this article, we tested, using a 1-year longitudinal design, whether symbolic numerical magnitude processing or children’s numerical representation of Arabic digits, is as important to arithmetic as phonological awareness is to reading.
Kiran Vanbinst, D. Ansari, P. Ghesquière, B. De Smedt   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Age and schooling effects on early literacy and phoneme awareness [PDF]

, 2011
Previous research on age and schooling effects is largely restricted to studies of children who begin formal schooling from the age of 6 and the measures of phoneme awareness used have typically lacked sensitivity for beginning readers.
Carroll, Julia M., Cunningham, Anna, Cunningham, Anna Julie, Julia Carroll, Anna Cunningham, Carroll, Julia; id_orcid   +5 more
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source