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Lionel Fontan; Jeanne Desreumaux – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The main objective of this study was to assess the existence of developmental effects on the performance of the Vocale Rapide dans le Bruit (VRB) speech-in-noise (SIN) identification test that was recently developed for the French language and to collect reference scores for children and adolescents. Method: Seventy-two native French…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Perception Tests, Identification
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2016
This article is based on long-term participant observation and interviews with pupils and graduates of the Diwan immersion high school in Brittany, France. With reference to the theory of "communities of practice," this article shows how the education in the Breton immersion school can influence a knowledge of the minority language and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Community Involvement, Self Concept, Indo European Languages
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Walter, Catherine – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
In examining reading comprehension in a second language (L2), I have demonstrated that the prevailing metaphor of transfer of skills is misleading, and that what happens is access to an already existing general cognitive skill. There is evidence in first language (L1) and in L2 that accessing this skill when reading in an alphabetic language…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Oral Language