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Participation for mental health service development in China: Conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading is FUNdamental: The effect of a reading programme on vocabulary development in a high poverty township school

open access: yesPer Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2008
This paper discusses the development of the vocabulary of grade 7 learners in a reading project currently underway at a school in Atteridgeville, a township on the outskirts of Pretoria.
Scheepers, Ruth
doaj   +1 more source

Nance‐Horan Syndrome: Further Delineation of the Affected Male and the Female Carrier Phenotypes

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nance‐Horan syndrome (NHS; OMIM 302350) is a rare, X‐linked syndrome characterized by bilateral congenital cataracts leading to profound vision loss, specific dental anomalies including characteristic screwdriver blade‐shaped incisors, facial anomalies, and intellectual disability.
Maria K. Haanpää   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Benefits of Extensive Reading for Moroccan EFL University Students

open access: yesThe Journal of Quality in Education
This study examines the impact of an extensive reading program (Cycle Licence d’Education) on the vocabulary, reading comprehension, and critical thinking skills of 88 Moroccan English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. Over 14 weeks, with 120-minute
Maryem Larhmaid
doaj   +1 more source

Vocabulary Acquisition through Self-Regulated Learning on Speaking and Writing Development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language Teaching and Education, 2018
Despite the crucial role of vocabulary in foreign language acquisition, little is known about its influence on speaking and writing development from self-regulated learning concept. Thus, by employing a path analysis, this study examines the influence of
Budi Waluyo
doaj   +1 more source

Vocabulary development in Norwegian L1 and L2 learners in the kindergarten–school transition*

open access: yesJournal of Child Language, 2016
This study examined the vocabulary development of Norwegian second language (L2) learners with Urdu/Punjabi as their first language (L1) at two time-points from kindergarten to primary school, and compared it to the vocabulary development of monolingual ...
Jannicke Karlsen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

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