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Cesar Teló; Rosane Silveira; Ana Flávia Boeing Marcelino; Mary G. O'Brien – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Evidence from Canada suggests that accent bias can be moderated by speakers' demonstrated job-relevant performance and the prestige level of their occupation (Teló et al. 2022). In this study, we replicated Teló et al.'s (2022) work in Brazil. First language (L1) Brazilian Portuguese-speaking listeners rated audio recordings of L1 Brazilian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Spanish Speaking, Social Bias
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Gabrielle Oliveira; Carolina Barbosa Lindquist; Estela Sato Shiratori; Leila Baptaglin – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to show the complexities of engagement between students - Venezuelan and Brazilian - and their teachers. This qualitative ethnographic study documents the everyday pedagogies and practices that take place in elementary schools with high levels of refugee and immigrant children. While Brazilian law ensures the basic right…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Spanish Speaking, Portuguese
Rosiane Barcelos de Oliveira – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Today, about 350 languages are spoken and signed in the United States, many of which are heritage languages (HL). A HL is a language to which a speaker has an ethnic, historical, or sentimental connection. This dissertation reports on an ethnographic case study on the language and literacy socialization practices of one trilingual family (English,…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Socialization, Multilingualism, Language Usage
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Martinez, Ruth Maria; Goad, Heather; Dow, Michael – Second Language Research, 2023
Feature-based approaches to acquisition principally focus on second language (L2) learners' ability to perceive non-native consonants when the features required are either contrastively present or entirely absent from the first language (L1) grammar. As features may function contrastively or allophonically in the consonant and/or vowel systems of…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Manuel Bohn; Wilson Filipe da Silva Vieira; Marta Giner Torréns; Joscha Kärtner; Shoji Itakura; Lília Cavalcante; Daniel Haun; Moritz Köster; Patricia Kanngiesser – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children (N = 99 families) during mealtime across…
Descriptors: Food, Parent Child Relationship, Cross Cultural Studies, Nonverbal Communication
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Mayrink, Mônica Ferreira; Albuquerque-Costa, Heloísa; Ferraz, Daniel – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This chapter aims at presenting an overview of how our experiences as professors of Spanish, French, and English studies at the Department of Modern Languages (DML) of the University of São Paulo (USP) responded to the challenges put forward by the pedagogical and technological practices required since the outbreak of the COVID-19 health crisis,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Second Language Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Jose´ Nunes da Silva Ju´nior; Jean-Yves Winum; Andrea Basso; Luca Gelati; Lisa Moni; Antonio Jose´ Melo Leite Junior; Jair Mafezoli; Da´vila Zampieri; Francisco Serra Oliveira Alexandre; Kimberly Benedetti Veja; Andre´ Jalles Monteiro – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
This paper provides information about a multilingual (Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, and French) virtual card game for computers and smartphones. Facing the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this game allows students to play remotely or face-to-face with friends in a fun and cooperative environment and review the topics related…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Educational Games, Video Games
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López Otero, Julio César; Cuza, Alejandro; Jiao, Jian – Second Language Research, 2023
The present study examines the production and intuition of Spanish clitics in clitic left dislocation (CLLD) structures among 26 Spanish heritage speakers (HSs) born and raised in Brazil. We tested clitic production and intuition in contexts in which Spanish clitics vary as a function of the semantic features of the object that they refer to.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Intuition, Semantics
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José Nunes da Silva Júnior; Antonio José Melo Leite Junior; Francisco Serra Oliveira Alexandre; André Jalles Monteiro; Kimberly Benedetti Vega; Andrea Basso – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Research indicates that students frequently struggle to apply their knowledge of organic compounds' structural theory to understand the concepts related to resonance and learn to use curved arrows to write resonance structures. Educators have developed educational tools and methodologies to aid students in overcoming their learning difficulties.…
Descriptors: Design, Curriculum Implementation, Web Based Instruction, Educational Games
David Bamat; Sean Vannata; Lindsey Liu; Alyn Turner; Molly Schlesinger – Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2023
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) serves a diverse population of English Learners (ELs) with different ethnic backgrounds, cultural identities, and languages spoken. SDP's population of ELs has grown significantly, from about 12,000 in 2014-15 to nearly 20,000 in 2022-23, an increase of 66%. This community-informed study focuses on English…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students, English Language Learners
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Labarta Postigo, Maria – L2 Journal, 2021
This paper analyzes the strategies and challenges involved in the translation of English idioms in a specific domain of broadcast media. Current technology and distribution networks make it possible to watch series from around the world shortly after they are aired in their original language. Although sometimes dubbed, Internet-based TV series are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Translation, Figurative Language, Television
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Galante, Angelica; Zeaiter, L. F.; dela Cruz, J. W. N.; Massoud, N.; Lee, L.; Aronson, J.; de Oliveira, D. S. A.; Teodoro-Torres, J. A. – Language Learning Journal, 2023
While studies have shown benefits of plurilingual pedagogies on students' experiences learning languages, more research is needed to examine how these pedagogies can be enacted in foreign language programmes in digital environments. Moreover, prioritising oral engagement has been an urgent need among teachers who use synchronous platforms such as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Native Language, Teacher Attitudes, Multiple Literacies
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Editor; Vander Tavares, Editor – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2024
"Language Teacher Identity" presents a groundbreaking critical examination of how ideologies of race, ethnicity, accent, and immigration status impact perceptions of plurilingual teachers. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of established and emerging scholars, this important work of scholarship addresses issues…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Characteristics
Ribeiro, Daniela Marinho – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A great deal of the research on cross-linguistic phonetic influence demonstrates that a speaker's knowledge of their first language (L1) significantly affects their ability to perceive and produce sounds in any other language. While current studies show that cross-linguistic transfer occurs at the L3 level, some research suggests that properties…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Transfer of Training
Monkman, Karen, Ed.; Frkovich, Ann, Ed.; Proweller, Amira, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy
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