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Language as “Resource”? Why Science Education's Raciolinguistic Histories Matter Today
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 10, Page 2169-2189, December 2025.ABSTRACT Our study explores how US science education has evaluated multilingual students' languages as deficits and/or assets by comparing them against normative ideals. As a raciolinguistic genealogy, the study situates current premises of language in science education (e.g., as problem versus resource) within epistemological practices shaping the ...
Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Diego Román
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Language Selection Policies in International Standardization – Perception of the IEC Member Countries [PDF]
, 2009 International standards setting organizations have different language selection policies. These policies have, besides their financial aspects, also an important cultural/ political dimension.
Teichmann, H. (Hans) +1 more
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Towards a Socio-Cultural Turn in Translation Teaching: A Canadian Perspective [PDF]
, 2005 While current translation theory is beginning to reconcile cultural and linguistic approaches to translation, this is far from the case in translation pedagogy and curriculum.
Whitfield, Agnes
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Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1402-1412, August 2025.ABSTRACT Northern Vietnam, in particular the regions along the international border, is home to a rich diversity of language communities. Important research opportunities have presented themselves in the Tai‐speaking communities in rural districts near Laos with an emphasis on the development and preservation of the Tai languages.
Thi‐Nham Le, Norbert Francis
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Divorce among more and less divorce‐prone populations following unilateral divorce laws
Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 87, Issue 3, Page 1038-1059, June 2025.Abstract Objective This study analyzes heterogeneity in divorce rates after the 1987 transition from mutual consent to unilateral no‐fault divorce in Finland. Background Marriage and divorce legislation can impact divorce rates. However, some groups may be more responsive to changes in legal context than others.
Linus Andersson +2 more
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Inuit education in Alberta and Nunavik (Canada) [PDF]
, 2009 During the reorganisation of education in Nunavut that led to the passing of Bill 21 in 2009, reliance on curricula developed in other parts of Canada was mentioned and sometimes perceived as problematic.
Daveluy, Michelle
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Acta Paediatrica, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January 2025.Abstract Aim To determine whether a strength‐based home‐visiting program enhances parent–child interaction during the first year at home for children born extremely preterm (gestational age < 28). Methods A randomised controlled trial of 130 infants born extremely preterm 2018–2021 in Stockholm, allocated to either the Stockholm preterm interaction ...
Erika Baraldi +7 more
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Journal of Aging Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.To delay social and healthcare utilisation among the ageing population, there is an increasing focus on the role of health‐promoting lifestyle adopted at an individual and/or community level. Longevity is generally viewed as the ultimate outcome of health, although a high life expectancy does not necessarily go together with health and/or a health ...
Sarah Åkerman +6 more
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Alouette‐R normative data for French‐speaking school‐aged children living in Quebec
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 5, Page 2071-2086, September/October 2024.Abstract Background The Alouette‐R (2005) by Lefavrais is one of the most widely used tools to assess reading skills in French. However, this instrument does not have normative data specific to the French‐speaking population of Quebec, Canada. Aims The validity of an assessment being strongly compromised when using inappropriate norms, the first ...
Lou Champagne, Dima Safi, Bruno Gauthier
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Political power, national identitiy and language [PDF]
, 2004 Afrikaans is the home language of 5.9 million people. During the 1980s, Afrikaans was the dominant state language and a widely-used lingua franca in South Africa and Namibia.
Louw, P. Eric
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