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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
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Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
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Critical Multilingual Language Awareness, Antiracism, and Raciolinguicized Subjectivities in Teacher Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Race and language collaborate in structuring educational inequities, creating urgency for teacher education to equip all teachers to equitably serve racialized multilinguals as antiracist language educators. Emphasizing the inseparability of racial and linguistic justice, this article examines teacher candidates' (TCs') learning journeys ...
Monica Shank Lauwo
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READING IN SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A PRACTICAL PROPOSAL

, 2017
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo proponer una manera práctica de aplicar la enseñanza de la lectura en las clases de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE), más especí­ficamente en la enseñanza media o secundaria. Para eso, desarrollamos una propuesta de actividad que busca trabajar los diversos momentos de lectura, en base a las divisiones trabajadas ...
Melo, Alessandra Ferreira de, Lima, Ester Vieira de, Sampaio, Mariana Freire, Pinto, Talita Dantas, Silva, Kátia Cilene David da   +4 more
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“All Native Speakers” at Singapore's ESL Schools: Implications for TESOL Communities in the Pursuit of Diversity‐Based Professionalism

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

35 Years of the Continua of Biliteracy: A discussion of what has been, what is, and what is to come

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This issue of the Forum celebrates the 35th anniversary of the seminal publication on the continua of biliteracy (Hornberger, 1989). The issue has brought together scholars who each shed light on the continued need for such conceptual framing, illuminating ways in which “the hope for understanding biliteracy, as well as literacy and ...
Nancy H. Hornberger, Jamie L. Schissel
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Enseñanza del español y contexto social. La familia como recurso temático para la clase de conversación destinada a estudiantes surcoreanos / Spanish teaching and social environment. The family as a speaking topic for conversation classes in South Korea [PDF]

Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, 2015
In great part, the success or failure of a thematic resource in a conversation class of a foreign language depends on the social environment and educational context of students.
Jorge Manuel Mendoza Puertas
doaj  

EARLY LEARNING OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN CROATIA: THE LEARNER PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

Методички видици
Compulsory foreign language learning at the age of 6–7 followed by optional learning of a second foreign language at the age of 10 was introduced in all Croatian primary schools in 2003. Spanish, as the fifth foreign language learned in Croatia, has only recently been offered as a second foreign language.
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AI as a Strategic Driver in Foreign Direct Investment Flows: Evidence of OECD Countries

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how AI‐related capabilities and institutional signals shape foreign direct investment (FDI) inward and outward flows in OECD countries. Drawing on Dunning's OLI paradigm and North's Institutional Theory, the paper investigates whether AI Patent Grants, Newly Funded AI Firms and Mentions of AI in Legislative Proceedings ...
Dafni Grigoriadi
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