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It is beyond dispute that English is the language of science, engineering, and medicine, as well as of business, technology, and the internet. In the College of Engineering and Petroleum in Kuwait University, engineering courses apply English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI). Students who join the College are introduced to only three English lang...

Transformative L2 Teacher Education Innovations features empirical research studies informed by Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory (VSCT) that are explicitly and intentionally designed to transform second language (L2) teacher reasoning and thinking, as well as L2 teaching practices and pedagogical choices. With contributions from scholars and practi...

Motivated by theories of music-to-language transfer, we investigated whether and how musicianship benefits phonological and lexical prosodic awareness in first language (L1) Cantonese and second language (L2) English. We assessed 86 Cantonese-English bilingual children on rhythmic sensitivity, pitch sensitivity, non-verbal intelligence, inhibitory...

The traditional EFL classroom is no longer enough to provide sufficient possibilities for EFL learners' verbal engagement, which has become one of the most challenging for EFL teachers inside classroom settings. This study aims to extend EFL children's oral interactions outside classroom settings by providing their parents with bilingual explainer...

Although Google Translate is a widely used machine translation service that supports 133 languages, it does not incorporate support for the Kreol Repiblik Moris (KRM) language. Addressing this limitation, the current research focuses on enhancing the accuracy and fluency of machine translation between KRM and English through natural language proces...

Este libro bilingüe es un merecido homenaje a Awa Yéo, a la vez como persona y como profesional. Reúne sus propios escritos, documentos auténticos, testimonios conmovedores de personas que la conocieron, así como un artículo científico sobre su contribución a la promoción del español en Costa de Marfil y África. Las lecciones a sacar del mismo son...

This paper proposes a reading of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (1999) from a theoretical perspective combining medical humanities, disability, and performance studies (Henderson and Ostrander; Murray); the aim is to expand upon previous scholarship which sought to analyse Kane’s multifarious ways of aestheticising—and questioning—illness and pain (e....

Language awareness, which refers to an individual’s sensitivity to and understanding of the nature and function of language, has been shown to potentially impact language learning. The current paper reviews various sources, including journals, books, and historical documents, to provide a comprehensive overview of theoretical discussions and empiri...

Skin injury is a growing issue among older adults, especially when admitted to an intensive care unit or long-term care facility. Skin prevention is a key point in dealing with this issue, and prompt and effective screening instruments should be used to identify risks and start preventive interventions and care. This descriptive study aimed to tran...

In everyday conversation, bilingual individuals switch between their languages not only in reaction to monolinguals with different language profiles but also voluntarily and naturally. However, whether and how various switching contexts dynamically modulate domain-general cognitive control is still unclear. Using a cross-task paradigm in which a fl...

This study examines the impact of immersion education on the native language (L1) proficiency of adolescent bilingual learners. Immersion education, where most academic instruction is provided in a second language (L2), aims to foster bilingualism while achieving academic competence. However, there are concerns about the effect of this educational...

Pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) refers to the use of educational techniques that incorporate learners’ entire linguistic repertoire. Recent studies indicate that PTL is efficient in the teaching of morphological awareness to bilingual children. The question remains whether it can be successfully applied in the highly specific context of adult for...

Background: Patients undergoing neurosurgery may require long-term care at home after discharge from the hospital. Mobile apps may assist their caregivers in care provision. This study aimed to develop and assess the feasibility of a ‘NeuroCare’ App for neurosurgery patients. Methods: The study was carried out at the neurosurgery department of a te...

This article examines the particular literary techniques that Rashīd al-Dīn Vaṭvāṭ (d. 1182) in Ḥadāʾiq al-Siḥr fī Daqāʾiq al-Shiʿr (The Gardens of Magic in the Minutiae of Poetry) describes as having distinct characteristics in Persian literature. Vaṭvāṭ, a bilingual poet and literary scholar, possessed a profound knowledge of both Arabic and Pers...

This article investigates the historical evolution and the current role of South Asian English (SAE) in the region’s education systems, with a particular focus on its function as a medium of instruction (EMI). By integrating both historical and contemporary insights, the article offers a detailed examination of how SAE has shaped educational practi...

The present study is directed towards multilingualism of writing, on the ground that knowledge of multiple languages is helpful for learning additional languages. It bridges learners’ knowledge of L1 with their knowledge of L2 more effectively instead of learning L2 in isolation of learners’ mother tongue.

Within the research field of bilingual lexical representation and organization, much attention has been given to whether two languages share a conceptual system and what factors modulate the connection between this conceptual system and the lexical systems of a bilingual's L1 and L2. One of the most valid ways in the psycholinguistics domain to exp...

Este artigo analisa as disposições curriculares relacionadas à educação de surdos no município de Altamira, Pará, visando compreender a extensão das atualizações necessárias. A educação de surdos na região tem se fundamentado nos princípios da Educação Especial, porém, atualmente, há uma necessidade premente de transição para a Modalidade de Educaç...

Phoneme identification is critically involved in alphabetic reading, and weak skills in phoneme perception are known to correspond to the development of reading skills in children around the age of reading instruction. However, current models of phoneme perception have been established in monolingual populations, and these relationships may not hol...

It is well established that verb-noun collocations are difficult for L2 learners, but little is known about the extent to which such collocations are vulnerable to attrition under conditions of reduced input. The study is novel in that we focus on L2 attrition rather than L1 attrition, and because we focus on Saudi Arabian returnees, who have so fa...

A revista Conexões desde sua criação em 1998, consolidou-se como importante veículo de divulgação científica na Educação Física, com alcance nacional e internacional, especialmente na América Latina. Em 2024, foi a segunda mais acessada no PPEC da Unicamp, publicando volumes anuais de, no mínimo, 45 artigos desde 2019, com meta de expandir para 60....

El artículo expone la experiencia desarrollada en el proyecto Upshijgra din̈ Diⱽ Tegát yet, a cargo del Programa de Apoyo Permanente a Escuelas Indígenas (PAPEI) de la División de Educación Rural (DER) de la Universidad Nacional (UNA), de Costa Rica, cuyo objetivo general es fortalecer la educación intercultural bilingüe en el territorio Boruca par...

A publicação científica se transforma ao longo do tempo, tanto na perspectiva do acesso, ampliado constantemente, quanto nas publicações que refletem transformações, desafios e conquistas da sociedade, assumindo um papel crucial na produção e disseminação do conhecimento. O objetivo deste trabalho foi visibilizar o histórico da Revista Brasileira e...

This exploratory study sheds new light on the use of two types of agarrar ‘grab, take’ verb constructions that remain virtually unexamined in studies of language contact between Spanish and English; namely, ‘agarrar + NP’ constructions and agarrar y ‘take and’ pseudocoordination. An intergenerational analysis of 313 verb constructions, extracted f...

Heritage language (HL) research has investigated adults and children, while adolescents have garnered far less attention, despite adolescence being a crucial time in the development of idiolects and identities, and, hence, also for language maintenance. This study describes HL usage among Estonian-Swedish bilingual teenagers. Data were collected fr...

Edited by M. Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo, New York and London, Routledge, 2024, 238 pp., £135.00. (hbk) ISBN 978-1-032-39143-4, £35.99 (ebk) ISBN 9781003348580 Hani Hamad M. Albelihi To cite this article: Hani Hamad M. Albelihi (28 Nov 2024): Transnational Approaches to Bilingual and Second Language Teacher Education, Language and Education,

The association between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and gender dysphoria (GD) has attracted a great deal of interest among child and adolescent psychiatrists in Japan. In clinical settings, it is common to hear complaints or concerns related to GD from adolescents with ASD. In the past few years, several review articles have been published on AS...

Background/Objectives: The prevalence of autism has increased substantially among Latine children; however, few service systems are prepared to provide culturally relevant services. Parents Taking Action (PTA) is a culturally informed parent-mediated psychoeducation program designed to meet the informational needs of Latine families with children w...

This study focuses on the application of the “PBL (problem-based learning) + Flipped Classroom” teaching model in bilingual education, aiming to explore its potential to enhance the quality and effectiveness of bilingual teaching. PBL emphasizes learning through the resolution of real-world problems, while the Flipped Classroom advocates that stude...

This study investigated phonological backward transfer in the ethnolinguistic minority of first-generation bilingual immigrant Indians in Glasgow 'Glaswasians' [1] in relation to Flege's Speech Learning Model [2, 3], which predicts `assimilation' and `dissimilation' of sound categories. The study explored whether and how sounds of Glaswasian native...

This qualitative case study explores the affordances of home-based multimodal literacy activities through the case of Mason’s (pseudonym) home writing experiences, a six-year-old bilingual kindergartener. Utilizing a play-based family literacy framework, the study examines 15 handmade mini-books created by Mason, revealing three key themes: (1) age...

Este documento corresponde a la tercera parte de un análisis comparativo entre la Ley Orgánica de Educación Intercultural (LOEI) en Ecuador y su reforma de 2021. En esta parte, se examina el Título IV, relacionado con la Educación Intercultural Bilingüe, Título V, sobre la Carrera Educativa y Título VI de la regulación, control, infracciones, sanci...

This study investigates the linguistic landscape within the traditional culinary tourism destination of Kampoeng Lama, located in Pantai Labu, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra. Utilizing a qualitative approach, data were collected through participant observation and documentation methods based on Sudaryanto’s simak libat cakap technique. The research ex...

This study offers a grammatical description of the Suruwahá language, which belongs to the Arawá language family and is spoken by a community of 156 members in southern Amazonas, Brazil. The Suruwahá language has been the subject of only a few previous publications, all of which focused on its phonology. The current study covers the language's phon...

Clickbait involves creating attention-grabbing or deceptive content aimed at generate more clicks. While effective for driving online traffic, it often results in misinformation, user frustration, and a diminished experience. Therefore, promptly identifying and addressing clickbait is vital. Spoiling clickbait involves crafting concise messages tha...

Este estudio se propuso mejorar la calidad de la docencia de diez profesores, a través de la incorporación de la investigación peda-gógica a su práctica de aula. Se adhiere esta pretensión a los planteamientos de Elliot (2000) y Latorre (2005), quienes plantean que a través del recurso de la investigación, los docentes pueden dar respuestas a las d...

Children born preterm are at an elevated risk of language delays compared to children born full-term. However, there is a dearth of research investigating language outcomes in premature children exposed to more than one language. There is also limited empirical evidence linking the quantity and quality of parent input and language outcomes in prema...

Bilingual subject instruction (BSI) is one form of language support classes in Norwegian schools, preparing students from language minorities for mainstream instruction by combining subject and language tutoring through the students’ home language. This article examines interactions within a Polish–Norwegian classroom setting, focusing on the conce...

THE INDIRECT INFLUENCE OF THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND SEMANTIC INTERFERENCE IN THE USE OF THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE BY SPEAKERS FROM THE TRANSYLVANIAN PLAIN The study is based on a sociolinguistic survey conducted in the Hungarian language of the Transylvanian Plain in 14 villages with 60 bilingual respondents. The analysis of the unstructured intervie...

Mandarin-English dual language immersion (ME-DLI) programs have been growing rapidly in recent decades. Most dual language immersion programs are not mandated by the school or district but are initiated based on parents’ demands. To better understand the need for ME-DLI programs, this study explored factors associated with ethnic Chinese parents’ d...

Despite the popularity of immersion/bilingual programs across the globe, student retention from kindergarten to the last year of high school has been a preoccupying issue for decades. There is a dearth of research exploring the challenges faced by parents, who are the primary decision-makers when it comes to enrolment and withdrawal. Thus, we lack...

Despite the growing interest in the study of intonation in bilingual regions in France, the case of Basque French remains under-investigated. Previous research on yes-no questions in standard French has shown that rising contours are the prototypical realization, while bilingual varieties in contact with Corsican or Occitan also seem to allow falli...

Over the past year, there has been a notable rise in the use of large language models (LLMs) for academic research and industrial practices within the cybersecurity field. However, it remains a lack of comprehensive and publicly accessible benchmarks to evaluate the performance of LLMs on cybersecurity tasks. To address this gap, we introduce CS-Ev...

We assessed simultaneous bilinguals and monolinguals on inhibitory control and episodic memory, and assessed their grey matter volumes in brain regions known to be involved in language processing, executive control and memory. Bilinguals outperformed monolinguals on episodic memory, and performance on the memory and inhibition tasks were correlated...

Code-switching (CS) is a widely debated topic in the field of language acquisition and linguistic inquiry. Although there is growing empirical evidence on CS, there is still controversy about whether it should be used as a compensatory mechanism to bridge linguistic gaps. This paper aims to clarify the CS construct, established relationships, and t...

This study introduces a novel encoder–decoder framework based on deep neural networks and provides a thorough investigation into the field of automatic picture captioning systems. The suggested model uses a “long short‐term memory” decoder for word prediction and sentence construction, and a “convolutional neural network” as an encoder that is skil...

Background: Early intervention strategies significantly improve developmental outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorders. In this background, this study was conducted to translate and validate Malayalam version of Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT-R/F). Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in four steps. The o...

El estudio, denominado “Proyecto ENEBE: Evaluación Nacional de la Enseñanza Bilingüe en España. Funciones Discursivas y Lenguaje Académico” es obra de Virginia Vinuesa Benítez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Lola López-Navas (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) y Víctor Pavón Vázquez (Universidad de Córdoba) y recoge los resultados de cerca de 4.00...

The Hungarian–Chinese Bilingual Primary and Secondary School celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the changes that the institution has undergone over this period and the major milestones it has reached. The study briefly summarises the organisational structure of Chinese language education at t...

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of social communication acts exhibited by nonvocal preschool-aged autistic children across different language environments. Participants from English and non-English-speaking families were exposed to social interactions with a bilingual interventionist who interacted with the participant in two condi...

This contribution presents an overview of what is currently known about phonetic and phonological first language (L1) attrition and drift in bilingual speech as well as a new theory of bilingual speech, Attrition & Drift in Access, Production, and Perception Theory (ADAPPT), which devotes special attention to L1 change. Attrition and drift are defi...

Faroese language planning innuences the selection of words - both the entry words (lemma) and the equivalents in Faroese dictionaries. The puristic trend in language policy has put the editors in a dilemma concerning words of foreign origin and especially words containing affixes of non-Norse origin. This attitude has changed in recent years and th...

Proyecto realizado desde la Coordinación de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe del Ministerio de Educación de Corrientes. El tema fue “La composición de la población estudiantil inmigrante en el sistema educativo de la provincia de Corrientes”. El objetivo fue identificar la población migrante en el sistema educativo correntino”. El equipo estuvo int...

As a response to the need for more supportive research environments for Indigenous health research, CIHR created the Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR). The Tahatikonhsontóntie’ Québec Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (QcNEIHR) is driven by, and grounded in, Indigenous communities in Quebec. This manuscrip...

Resumo Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, o plurilinguismo era visto com desconfiança e rejeição no meio escolar, com base no pressuposto de que as crianças bilingues seriam prejudicadas na apren-dizagem. Esse pressuposto veio a ser desconstruído por inúmeras investigações em áreas como a linguística e a psicolinguística, que demostraram que, pelo...

Background: Scholars have identified the benefits of using African languages and bilingual approaches in South African education; at the same time, the dominance of language ideologies and systemic constraints work against the full implementation of bilingual education.Objectives: This article tracks the early responses of the pre-service and in-se...

GRAFOVI ZNANJA U DOBA VELIKIH JEZIČKIH MODELA: PRILIKE I IZAZOVI Pojava velikih jezičkih modela (eng. Large Language Models ili LLMs) je značajno uticala na oblast veštačke inteligencije, naročito u oblastima obrade prirodnog jezika i generisanju teksta. Međutim, ključno ograničenje ovih modela leži u nedostatku strukturiranog znanja i sposobnosti...

En este estudio se proponen pautas para la elaboración de entradas de un diccionario bilingüe destinado a la producción en una LE. Esas pautas están basadas en un exhaustivo análisis de los ejemplos de diccionarios lituano-lenguas románicas y otros, y en la actual elaboración de un diccionario, en formato electrónico, de lituano-español, dirigido p...

Background: In South Africa the majority of learners are failed by school language policies that require them to switch from learning through the medium of their home language, to learning through the medium of English from Grade 4. Yet language ideologies rooted in coloniality sustain the domination of English in education and suppress the home la...

is article deals with multilingualism in ve German pet cemeteries located in di erent cultural regions of Germany. It focuses on the languages found on the grave markers (known as gravestones in human cemeteries) of the animal graves and their functions. Our relationship to animals has changed over time. Animals are no longer perceived as objects,...

Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, o plurilinguismo era visto com desconfiança e rejeição no meio escolar, com base no pressuposto de que as crianças bilíngues seriam prejudicadas na aprendizagem. Esse pressuposto foi desconstruído por inúmeras investigações em áreas como a linguística e a psicolinguística, que demonstraram que, pelo contrário, o...

Esta obra, precedida de un prólogo escrito por el poeta zejelero e investigador Mourad Kadiri, constituye la primera antología de poemas del zéjel contemporáneo marroquí en español. Se compone de dos partes bien diferenciadas. En la primera se abordan el estudio de dicho género poético, conectándolo con la tradición oral y el legado andalusí; los r...

Factors which impact bilingual language development can often interact with different language features. The current study teases apart the impact of internal and external factors (chronological age, length of exposure, L2 richness, L2 use at home, maternal education and maternal L2 proficiency) across linguistic domains and features (vocabulary, m...

There is ample evidence that prosodic cues in intonational phrase boundaries facilitate the chunking of speech in adults. Additionally, the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis proposes that these prosodic cues influence chunking in silent reading, and punctuation has indeed been shown to induce prosodic breaks that shape parsing decisions. While prosodic s...

Early childhood education is gradually utilizing English teaching videos in the context of bilingual education. There were problems encountered during the promotion process, such as the lack of scientific teaching, unsatisfying teaching effects, lack of innovation, and the inability to attract children's interest in learning. To tackle these issues...

Bilingualism and the study of speech sounds are two of the largest areas of inquiry in linguistics. This Handbook sits at the intersection of these fields, providing a comprehensive overview of the most recent, cutting-edge work on the sound systems of adult and child bilinguals. Bringing together contributions from an international team of world-l...

In a revisionist reading of Bede’s account of the miraculous transformation of the lay brother Cædmon into a skilled poet in the Anglo-Saxon vernacular, this essay proposes that his bicultural origins (British, Anglo-Saxon) and poetic skill won him patronage in the retinue of King Oswiu of Northumbria, promoter of the Christian mission of conversio...

In 2016, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues reported that 40%, or 2680, of the world’s languages were at risk of extinction. Research estimates that one language is “lost” every 1-3 months (Bromham et al. 2022), most of them Indigenous languages. However, languages do not disappear, become extinct, or die “naturally”. Although...

La reducción de las marcas de oralidad es una de las estrategias a las que más se recurre en la subtitulación. En este estudio se analiza la traducción de la oralidad prefabricada en productos de ficción marcados en el plano lingüístico y cultural. A tal fin, utilizamos un corpus paralelo bilingüe formado por dos series originales italianas análoga...

In the post-pandemic era, a growing emphasis on elevating the quality of tourism consumption has been observed. This study explores how different language portfolios on product packaging can influence tourists’ perceptions and purchase intentions to promote sustainable consumption. Previous studies on tourism product strategies often addressed nati...

SDIT Nurul Ilmi Bilingual School Integrated Bekasi is one of the educational institutions that utilizes the advancement of technology and the internet that is currently growing by providing a school website that contains several features such as online new student admissions and e-reports along with other information. The lack of information availa...

L’évolution des langues, leurs parentés, leurs origines. Voilà des questions qui ressurgissent où l’on ne les attendait plus guère, éventuellement armées d’argumentations nouvelles puisées auprès des spécialistes d’autres disciplines, généticiens des populations par exemple. Les pidgins, les créoles, les mélanges de langues, que peut-on apprendre d...

Bengali-French version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test under the supervision of Dr Michel Paradis.

Background: Our article argues that the role of translingual instruction in mathematics classrooms is under-recognised in South Africa, as policymakers, teacher educators, teachers, learners, and parents assume that mathematics is just about numbers and calculations and not language. This is despite findings on the value of using children’s familia...

Despite the recent attention given to multicultural and bilingual teaching, several studies indicate that teacher education programmes in South African higher education institutions continue to instruct pre-service Mathematics teachers in Foundation Phase predominantly in English. This poses difficulties for learners when they start teaching in sch...

Este artículo se trata de una exploración de la etnoeducación en el Ecuador como una herramienta trascendental para preservar la identidad cultural de los pueblos ancestrales, especialmente a través del sistema educativo intercultural bilingüe, basado en una revisión bibliográfica y documental analiza cómo la educación contribuye a la transmisión d...

In questo lavoro prestiamo attenzione ai licei bilingui italo-ungheresi Kodály Zoltán di Pécs, Szent László di Kőbánya, Xántus János di Budapest e Csokonai Vitéz Mihály di Debrecen. L’obiettivo del presente studio è quello di esaminare − mediante l’analisi statistica − i risultati raggiunti nella materia di Storia svolta in lingua italiana all’Esam...

Mid-vowel contrasts often present perceptual challenges for speakers of languages that lack these distinctions. However, bilingual speakers, who have access to two phonological systems and exhibit greater metalinguistic awareness, might not necessarily encounter such difficulties. In this study, 27 Ukrainian–Russian bilinguals listened to an unfami...

Using a causal inference approach, we explored the relationships among the language experience determinants of morphosyntactic sensitivity, to identify the factors that indirectly and directly cause its acquisition or maintenance in immigration contexts. We probed the sensitivity to Serbian/Bosnian clitic placement violations with a self-paced list...

Studies with monolingual speakers show that people predict upcoming linguistic elements during sentence processing. Linguistic prediction behavior has been found to be less consistent in studies with bilingual individuals performing in their non-native language and in neurotypical older monolingual adults. The present study utilized an eye-tracking...

Neste artigo, discutimos a importância da realização de atividades de consciência fonológica referentes a sílabas, aliterações e rimas na Educação Infantil Bilíngue. Iniciamos o artigo abordando a relevância dessas atividades tanto na língua materna quanto na língua adicional. Em um segundo momento, ao integrarmos construtos dos campos da Aquisição...

Introduction. The article examines issues related to the difficulties of describing poorly ordered terminologies. Domestic terminologists traditionally include choreography terminology among such types. This terminological area provides unique material for research, since it combines verbal specialized knowledge, as well as graphic illustrative exp...

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This research investigates a multilingual cross-modal pedestrian information search (PIS) technique based on graph-text modal fusion. Initially, we used a combination of replacement neural networks to improve the English Language-Based Pedestrian Information Search model with Graph-Text Modal Fusion (GTMFLPIS) performance. In addition, existing res...

Extensive studies have documented cognitive and social-emotional benefits associated with bilingualism. However, past research has considered the cognitive and social-emotional benefits of being bilingual separately, despite research suggesting the convergence of these two domains. This tendency persists even for research that decenters English acq...

Satirical news is real news combined with a humorous comment or exaggerated content, and it often mimics the format and style of real news. However, satirical news is often misunderstood as misinformation, especially by individuals from different cultural and social backgrounds. This research addresses the challenge of distinguishing satire from tr...

This chapter presents some conceptual aspects related to the recognition of pluriversal knowledges existing in the country through public education policies. In Ecuador, an intercultural bilingual education programme (IBE) was negotiated between the government and indigenous movements, together with land restitution and recognition of Indigenous te...