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Kubicek, Claudia; Gervain, Judit; Loevenbruck, Hélène; Pascalis, Olivier; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Infant and Child Development, 2018
The present study investigated German-learning 6-month-old infants' preference for visual speech. Visual stimuli in the infants' native language (German) were contrasted with stimuli in a foreign language with similar rhythmical characteristics (English). In a visual preference task, infants were presented with 2 side-by-side silent video clips of…
Descriptors: Infants, Speech Communication, Gender Differences, Preferences
Atai, Mahmoodreza; Babaii, Esmat; Isavi, Ebrahim – Online Submission, 2018
With the advent of globalization, especially in its third phase (see Robertson, 2003), global relations of domination have undermined abuse of power at national and local levels (Fairclough, 2001). Global ELT textbooks, as corollaries of the globalization process, are not immune to the embedment of discriminatory discourses, as various studies…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nursery Rhymes