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Maire, Quentin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The internationalisation of educational trajectories has emerged as a new form of cultural capital in education systems. Research suggests that the 'international capital' offered by language enrichment programs has become appropriated primarily by middle- and upper-class families investing in new forms of educational distinction. However, little…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Family Financial Resources
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Sundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Molnar, Monika – Cognition, 2008
Previous studies indicate that the discrimination of native phonetic contrasts in infants exposed to two languages from birth follows a different developmental time course from that observed in monolingual infants. We compared infant discrimination of dental (French) and alveolar (English) place variants of /d/ in three groups differing in…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, French, Language Enrichment
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Ransdell, Sarah; Barbier, Marie-Laure; Niit, Toomas – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
Previous research has shown that individual differences in working memory (WM) are highly predictive of a wide range of cognitive behaviours. Until recently, research has focused on monolingual, or undifferentiated, populations. The present research compares metacognitive awareness, as measured by self-ratings of reading, writing, speaking and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Language Skills, Memory, Monolingualism