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Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
In an attempt to describe the historical origins of multilingual education in Eritrea, Horn of Africa, this paper looks at how missionaries, European colonisers, successive Ethiopian rules in Eritrea and the independence movements that fought Ethiopia defined ethnic, religious and linguistic differences of communities in the country. These…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Political Attitudes, Social Systems
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Biasini, Rosalba – Research-publishing.net, 2018
According to the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) framework for digital capabilities (JISC, 2013), Information Communication Technology (ICT) proficiency is only one of the elements necessary to equip Higher Education (HE) students to fully engage with today's digital world. On its own, however, it is not enough. As ICT users, students…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Information Systems
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Holmes, Prue; Bavieri, Luisa; Ganassin, Sara; Murphy, Jonathon – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This study investigated how a "while abroad" (IEREST) intercultural experiential learning programme (i) encouraged mobile student sojourners to explore the concept of "interculturality"; (ii) promoted their intercultural engagement/communication during their stay abroad; and (iii) invited them to reflect on their own…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Learning Experience, Student Mobility, Questionnaires
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Goffredo, Michela; Bernabucci, Ivan; Lucarelli, Cristiana; Conforto, Silvia; Schmid, Maurizio; Nera, Maria Matilde; Lopez, Luisa; D'Alessio, Tommaso; Grasselli, Bruna – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
The aim of this study is to introduce a new platform, called "En Plein", for the kinesthetic practice of phonological skills by preschool children and to examine its feasibility in combination with more traditional teaching methods. The rationale is that the manipulation of structural phonological units is important to train the…
Descriptors: Motion, Kinetics, Human Body, Phonological Awareness
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Guiné, Raquel P. F.; Costa, Daniela V. T. A; Correia, Paula M. R.; Costa, Cristina A.; Correia, Helena E.; Castro, Moises; Guerra, Luis T.; Seeds, Catherine; Coll, Collette; Radics, Laszlo; Arslan, Meahmet; Soylu, Soner; Tothova, Monika; Toth, Peter; Basile, Salvatore – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to obtain information to characterize potential trainees seeking training programs about organic farming in the form of mobile learning. This information is expected to allow for establishing a set of guidelines to design mobile training opportunities that could match the potential clients' wishes.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Xerou, Eftychia; Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi; Parmaxi, Antigoni – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This study presents the way Parmaxi and Zaphiris's (2015) social constructionist framework was used in order to teach and learn vocabulary in an Italian for Specific Academic Purposes (ISAP) tertiary course. The participants (beginner students) were guided to build in groups an artifact, i.e a specific academic vocabulary collection. To do so,…
Descriptors: Italian, Constructivism (Learning), Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Dispaldro, Marco – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Extended optional use of direct object clitic pronouns (e.g., "la" in "Paula la vede" ["Paula sees her"]) appears to be a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in Italian. In this study, we examined whether sentence production demands might influence the degree to which Italian-speaking…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Italian, Grammar, Language Impairments
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Dispaldro, Marco; Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: In many languages a weakness in non-word repetition serves as a useful clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI) in children. However, recent work in Italian has shown that the repetition of real words may also have clinical utility. For young typically developing Italian children, real word repetition is more predictive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Impairments, Children
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Tomasuolo, Elena; Valeri, Giovanni; Di Renzo, Alessio; Pasqualetti, Patrizio; Volterra, Virginia – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2013
The present study examined whether full access to sign language as a medium for instruction could influence performance in Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks. Three groups of Italian participants (age range: 6-14 years) participated in the study: Two groups of deaf signing children and one group of hearing-speaking children. The two groups of deaf…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Sign Language, Theory of Mind
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Kasparian, Kristina; Vespignani, Francesco; Steinhauer, Karsten – Cognitive Science, 2017
First language (L1) attrition in adulthood offers new insight on neuroplasticity and the role of language experience in shaping neurocognitive responses to language. Attriters are multilinguals for whom advancing L2 proficiency comes at the cost of the L1, as they experience a shift in exposure and dominance (e.g., due to immigration). To date,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Italian, Language Skill Attrition, Language Processing
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Brick, Billy; Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The speed of technological advance in the mobile phone, netbook and tablet markets has meant that learners increasingly have access to digital devices capable of enhancing their learning experience. This case study reports on how language learners, taking Italian as an option on the Institution Wide Languages Programme (IWLP) at Coventry…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Case Studies, Second Language Learning
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Grego Bolli, Giuliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This article discusses the problem of quality in the production of language tests in the context of Italian language examinations. The concept of quality is closely related to the application of stated standards and related procedures. These standards, developed over the last thirty years, are mainly related to the concepts of the accountability…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Test Construction, Standards, Case Studies
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De Angelis, Gessica – Intercultural Education, 2014
The present study adopts a multilingual approach to analysing the standardized test results of primary school immigrant children living in the bi-/multilingual context of South Tyrol, Italy. The standardized test results are from the Invalsi test administered across Italy in 2009/2010. In South Tyrol, several languages are spoken on a daily basis…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Results, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Notarnicola, Alessandra; Angelelli, Paola; Judica, Anna; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study analyzed the spelling skills of Italian children as a function of school experience. We examined the writing performances of 465 first- to eighth-grade normal readers on a spelling test that included regular words, context-sensitive regular words, words with ambiguous transcription, and regular pseudowords. Based on the dual-route model…
Descriptors: Spelling, Educational Experience, Italian, Children
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Tobia, Valentina; Bonifacci, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading, but it is a very complex task consisting of multiple component skills. A number of studies have tested the simple view of reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986) in opaque languages, but few investigations of the SVR components have been conducted on transparent languages. In the present study, we…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Orthographic Symbols, Oral Language, Oral Reading
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