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Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch; Denise Neumann; Veema Lodhia; Nasrin Zamani Foroushani; Karen E. Waldie – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2023
This exploratory study investigated the self-reported reading difficulties and compensatory strategies of monolingual and bilingual adults with dyslexia. Twenty monolinguals and six bilinguals answered a questionnaire that collected socio-demographic data as well as information regarding their reading difficulties, experiences, and possible…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Sharma, Shweta – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
This paper explores three multilingual students' (9 to 11-years-old) conceptual understanding of three-dimensional (3D) shapes as displayed through peer and classroom interactions in two New Zealand primary classes. Bakhtin's dialogic theory and Garfinkel's ethnomethodology inform the theoretical framework. The paper presents two excerpts from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
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Park, Mi Yung – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of linguistic capital and Darvin and Norton's notion of investment, this study explores heritage language (HL) use among 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in the New Zealand workplace. The data were collected through interviews with heritage speakers of Korean working in diverse fields in Auckland. The majority of the…
Descriptors: Korean, Native Language, Language Usage, Work Environment