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Direct linkSandra Preusler; Johanna Fleckenstein; Steffen Zitzmann; Jürgen Baumert; Jens Möller – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Multilingualism is often associated with advantages for acquiring additional languages. Theoretical approaches explain these advantages by assuming a Common Underlying Proficiency or a Metalinguistic Awareness. At the State Europe School in Berlin, students from different language backgrounds receive instruction in German and a partner language…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, German, English (Second Language)
O'Rourke, Polly; Zhou, Qian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
The current study examines the attitudes of heritage language learners (HLLs) and second language learners (SLLs) about their classroom language learning experiences and language learning in general, using data from high school students who participated in STARTALK summer language study programs in 2014 and 2015. Analysis of students' responses to…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Lindsey, Traci Speed – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examines the motion verb system of Bulgarian, focusing both on the structure of the Bulgarian motion verb itself, and on the information typically encoded in the Bulgarian verb of motion. It then compares the Bulgarian motion verb system with the motion verb systems of two other Slavic languages, Russian and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Picture Books, Verbs, Motion
Download full textTalento-Miller, Eileen; Guo, Fanmin; Han, Kyung T. – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2012
When power tests include a time limit, it is important to assess the possibility of "speededness" for examinees. Research on differential speededness in the past has included looking at gender and ethnic subgroups in the United States on paper and pencil tests. The needs of a global audience necessitated, and the availability of computer…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education, Timed Tests
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1990
Fourteen articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "A Brief Falsificationist Look at Contrastive Sociolinguistics" (K. Janicki); "The Locus of French Gender Control" (W. A. Bennett); "On the English Perfect Tense and Current Relevance Implicatures" (J.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, English
Aldridge, Fiona – 2001
A representative sample of 4,000 adults aged 16 and over in all three nations of Great Britain were surveyed regarding the languages they currently speak, their current participation in language learning, and their future language-learning intentions. The following were among the key findings: (1) 29% of adults can speak one foreign language, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Blacks, Communicative Competence (Languages)
