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Olander, Clas; Wickman, Per-Olof; Tytler, Russell; Ingerman, Åke – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The aim of this article is to investigate students' meaning-making processes of multiple representations during a teaching sequence about the human body in lower secondary school. Two main influences are brought together to accomplish the analysis: on the one hand, theories on signs and representations as scaffoldings for learning and, on the…
Descriptors: Human Body, Video Technology, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries
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Hyltenstam, Kenneth; Bylund, Emanuel; Abrahamsson, Niclas; Park, Hyeon-Sook – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
This article challenges a recent proposal for the theoretical interpretation of L1 and L2 interaction that results from the abrupt change of language environment in internationally adopted children. According to this proposal (Pallier, Dehaene, Poline, LeBihan, Argenti, Depoux and Mehler, 2003; Ventureyra, Pallier and Yoo, 2004), such children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Latin Americans, Second Language Learning
Faerch, Claus; And Others – 1984
Five papers on bilingualism are presented. "Giving Transfer a Boost--Describing Transfer Variation in Learners' Interlanguage Performance" by Claus Faerch suggests, outlines, and illustrates a heuristic principle for describing the result of positive transfer from one language to another, based on the assumption that learners maximize…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, Immigrants
Tench, P. – IRAL, 1996
Reviews current practice in the study of phonological interlanguage. The methodology of 22 pieces of research is surveyed in terms of subjects, range of phonological features, "synchronic" and "diachronic" approaches, techniques and materials, audio-recording and transcription. The article discusses the advantages and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, College Students, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Enkvist, Inger – Studies of Higher Education and Research, 1995
A series of partial studies aimed at understanding how much progress students can make in 1 year of second language study are described. The first concerns Swedish university students in their first year studying Spanish as a third language in higher education. Students were tested and interviewed for their perceptions of their language ability…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)
Dittmar, Norbert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
Papers included in this volume are: "The Muted Voice of Immigrant Workers;""The Situation of Foreign Workers in Sweden"; "Situation of Foreign Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany"; "Teaching German to Immigrant Children"; "Using Language Typology in Contrastive Studies"; "On Determining…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Classification