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Dynamic Interaction Patterns of Monolingual and Bilingual Infants with Their Parents
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Gampe, Anja; Hartmann, Leonie; Daum, Moritz M. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Bilingual children show a number of advantages in the domain of communication. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether differences in interactions are present before productive language skills emerge. For a duration of 5 minutes, 64 parents and their 14-month-old infants explored a decorated room together. The coordination of their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Diversity and Multilingual Challenges in Academic Settings
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Yanaprasart, Patchareerat; Lüdi, Georges – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Higher Education is caught between internationalization on the one hand and the quest for local support by fostering local practices on the other. The clash between uniformity-standardization and localization-specialization manifests itself in every university trying to adopt internationalization strategies. How can universities manage this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Language Planning, Higher Education
Pluralistic Approaches to Languages in the Curriculum: The Case of French-Speaking Switzerland, Spain and Austria
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Daryai-Hansen, Petra; Gerber, Brigitte; Lörincz, Ildikó; Haller, Michaela; Ivanova, Olga; Krumm, Hans-Jürgen; Reich, Hans H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
While the idea of plurilingual competence is widely established theoretically and promoted in European language policies, it is not implemented in educational practice, where separate plurilingualism is still dominant. The idea of languages as autonomous entities is e.g. reflected in the "Common European Framework of Reference for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Multilingualism, Guidelines
Project d'analyse contrastive de l'espagnol, du francais et de l'italien: PACEFI (A Contrastive Analysis Project of Spanish, French, and Italian)
Py, Bernard – Contact, 1973
PACEFI is a working committee at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, French, Italian