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Comprehension as social and intellectual practice: Rebuilding curriculum in low socioeconomic and cultural minority schools [PDF]

, 2011
This article reframes the concept of comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse and low socioeconomic students, noting an emphasis on comprehension ...
Allan Luke, Annette Woods, August D., Brandt C., Clay M. M., Cole M., Dewey J., Dewey J., Dyson A. H., Freebody P., Freire P., Gonzalez N., Heath S., Karen Dooley, Ladwig J. G., Lingard R., Luke A., Luke A., Luke A., MacGinitie W., McNaughton S., Nichols S., Olson D. R., Snow C. E., Snyder I., Street B., Underwood T., Wilden A.   +27 more
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Parents' WhatsApp coping resources in the context of ongoing political conflicts: An ecological exploration

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment.
Daphna Yeshua‐Katz, Stav Shapira, Orna Braun‐Lewensohn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endangered domains, thematic documentation and grammaticography [PDF]

, 2014
When setting out to document a language with the intended goal of describing it (typically through a grammar and dictionary), fieldworkers prefer to collect an array of linguistic data, ranging from elicited words and paradigms to an assortment of texts ...
Terrell, Jacob
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‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison, Jacqui Theobald, Kirsty Forsdike, Ingrid Wilson, Elena Wilson, Leesa Hooker   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation in New South Wales: A Mixed‐Method Survey Exploring Workforce Capacities

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci, Hannah Wilkinson, Susan Heward‐Belle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging language and learning: A CLIL-ized TMI model for international students in traditional Chinese medicine

Journal of Medical Education Development
Background & Objective: The increasing number of international students studying Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China has brought to light challenges related to the linguistic complexity and specialized terminology of TCM courses, which are ...
Hengzhi Hu, Harwati Hashim, Xiaoyan Li
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Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2011
The underlying assumption of this study is the understanding of a specialized term as a summary of disciplinary knowledge, formalized at a textual level in the contextual relations which structure disciplinary lexical knowledge and are therefore ...
Orna-Montesinos, Concepción
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Zapotec Language Activism And Talking Dictionaries [PDF]

, 2019
Online dictionaries have become a key tool for some indigenous communities to promote and preserve their languages, often in collaboration with linguists.
Fahringer, J., Harrison, K. David, Lillehaugen, B. D., Lopez, F. H.   +3 more
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Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn, Vanessa Langenberg, Kristy Harper, Libby Callaway, Hilary O'Connell, Eleanor Kennett‐Smith, Natasha Layton   +6 more
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Translation Analysis of Linguistic Characteristics of French Specific Discourse

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2015
The article offers a translation analysis of professionally oriented texts from discursive positions. For this purpose the term “specialized discourse” is determined, the sequence of discursive analysis of source text is given. To consider the linguistic
N N Gavrilenko
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