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Immigrant Outreach and Language Access during First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Liv T. Dávila – Applied Linguistics, 2024
This article applies cultural translation (Kramsch and Hua 2020) and geohistorical frameworks (Braudel 1949; Scott 2018) to analyze the interplay between linguistic, cultural, physical, and ideological proximities and distances in immigrant advocacy and outreach efforts. Data are taken from 'small stories' (Georgakopoulou 2010, 2015) shared by…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Advocacy, Outreach Programs, Language
One Size Fits All? Learning Conditions and Working Memory Capacity in "Ab Initio" Language Development
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Sanz, Cristina; Lin, Hui-Ju; Lado, Beatriz; Stafford, Catherine A.; Bowden, Harriet W. – Applied Linguistics, 2016
The article summarizes results from two experimental studies (N = 23, N = 21) investigating the extent to which working memory capacity (WMC) intervenes in "ab initio" language development under two pedagogical conditions [± grammar lesson + input-based practice + explicit feedback]. The linguistic target is the use of morphosyntax to…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Proficiency, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
What's on Your Mind? How Private Speech Mediates Cognition during Initial Non-Primary Language Learning
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Stafford, Catherine A. – Applied Linguistics, 2013
Vygotskian sociocultural theory of mind holds that language mediates thought. According to the theory, speech does not merely put completed thought into words; rather, it is a tool to refine thought as it evolves in real time. This study investigated from a sociocultural theory of mind perspective how nine beginning learners of Latin used private…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Sociocultural Patterns, Cognitive Processes