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Gibbons, John; Lascar, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
To discover the extent to which academic register develops in language-minority children, it is important to describe the academic register of the minority language and then to develop instruments to measure its development. This article looks at the means that were developed to accomplish these two tasks of description and instrument development…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Clyne, Michael – International Journal of Bilingualism, 1997
Reports on a project on trilingualism currently in progress. A brief literature review indicates the diversity of trilingualism and trilingual situations. The article then focuses on three sets of trilinguals in Melbourne, Australia, Dutch-German-English, Hungarian-German-English, and Italian-Spanish-English, and considers interlingual strategies…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Dutch, English, Foreign Countries
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Harrington, Thomas F. – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
Examined validity of Career Decision-Making System (CDM) by administering CDM to English- and Spanish-speaking subjects in the United States, English- and French-speaking subjects in Canada, and English-speaking subjects in Australia. Results suggest that translation from English to another language or use with persons of another nationality does…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies
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Erdener, V. Dogu; Burnham, Denis K. – Language Learning, 2005
Visual information from the face is an integral part of speech perception. Additionally, orthography can play a role in disambiguating the speech signal in nonnative speech. This study investigates the effect of audiovisual speech information and orthography on nonnative speech. Particularly, orthographic depth is of interest. Turkish transparent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech, Auditory Perception, Language Processing
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Parsons, Miriam – Babel, 2003
Highlights strategies and processes implemented across two schools as part of the Languages Focus Schools project in Australia. The intention was to improve outcomes for student learning in Spanish through a streamlined approach to programming, assessment, and transition from the first year of primary school to Grade 9, with a focus on the middle…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
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Mollering, Martina; Nunan, David – Applied Language Learning, 1995
Argues that mastery of modal particles is important for interpersonal aspects of language development. The article outlines the difficulty of learning and teaching German modal particles with regard to the theoretical explication. The study shows how a teaching program improved initially poor comprehension and production skills in the area of…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, German
Miralles, Judith – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
There are differences between, and among, people in ethnic communities. This study seeks to provide a more nuanced snapshot of vocational education and training (VET) participation and completion rates among Arabic, Bosnian, Cantonese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese communities. It investigates the effectiveness of English as a second language…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Second Language Programs, Work Experience, Vocational Education
Hale, Sandra – 1995
A study investigated the attitudes of bilinguals toward each language and toward language mixing (codeswitching), expressions of identity, and how this relates to linguistic behavior. Subjects were 15 undergraduate students of Spanish-English interpreting and translation at an Australian university whose age (19-53), language proficiency, and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Mackey, Allison – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study of the efficiency of interactive tasks at eliciting targeted morpho-syntactic structures from child speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL). Two groups of subjects between 7 and 10 years of age were examined, one group with various first language backgrounds, and a second which used Spanish as their first…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Papademetre, Leo – 2000
This workbook and videotape kit invites teachers to explore the fundamental concepts of language and culture in universal terms and in relation to their teaching of languages and cultures in their classrooms. Comparing and contrasting cultural phenomena and their associated linguistic meanings across cultures offers teachers the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Relevance
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Watts, Noel – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Examines the research needs relative to the use of foreign languages in tourism activities in Australia and New Zealand. Findings indicate a lack of precise information on the ways in which the tourism industry in these countries provides appropriate language assistance to non-English speaking inbound visitors. Suggestions for future research are…
Descriptors: Chinese, Communicative Competence (Languages), Economic Factors, French
Fishman, Joshua A. – 1991
The theory and practice of assistance to speech communities whose native languages are threatened are examined. The discussion focuses on why most efforts to reverse language shift are unsuccessful or even harmful, diagnosing difficulties and prescribing alternatives based on a combination of ethnolinguistic, sociocultural, and econotechnical…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Basque, Case Studies, Diachronic Linguistics
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Martinez, Francisco – Babel: Australia, 1996
Discusses the three-year Spanish program in a mixed ability environment at a Western Australia university. In order to capitalize on the wealth of the instructor's linguistic and cultural knowledge, opportunity is given for group work where advanced students are de facto language tutors. Concludes that this unique learning environment is a…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Class Activities, Culture Contact, Educational Environment
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Smolicz, J. J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Until 1947, Australia was considered one of the most monolingual countries in the world. However, now there are more than a million bilingual Australians who regularly use a language other than English when talking with friends and families, or on religious or social occasions. (SL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Chinese, Cultural Awareness
Harrington, Thomas F. – 1989
The field testing process for the collection of data on the norms, reliability, and concurrent validity of the Career Decision-Making System (CDM) is described. The CDM is a comprehensive career planning instrument that surveys interests, values, abilities, and training plans and relates them to career information in client-oriented interpretive…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Planning, College Students, Comparative Testing
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