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Mostert, Ingrid; Roberts, Nicky – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
The comparison of different languages in terms of specific mathematical ideas can provide insights into the nature of mathematics and into the learning and teaching of mathematics in both languages. This paper uses a typological perspective to contrast the language of comparison of isiXhosa and English, specifically when comparing countable…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, English, African Languages, Foreign Countries
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Hsu, Lucy Shih-Ju; Ip, Ka I.; Arredondo, Maria M.; Tardif, Twila; Kovelman, Ioulia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The developmental process of reading acquisition is frequently conceptualized as a self-organizing mental network consisting of lexico-semantic, phonological and orthographical components. The developmental nature of this network varies across languages and is known to impact second-language learners of typologically different languages. Yet, it…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Montanari, Simona; Simón-Cereijido, Gabriela; Hartel, Antonella – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
This study examines the writing skills of students in grades 1 to 5 of an Italian-English two-way immersion program. Narrative writing samples were collected in both languages and scored for content, organization, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, text length, and overall total score. The results show that writing skills improved as a function of…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Vocabulary Development