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Fleeing TikTok to Rednote: Leveraging Generative Technologies to Support Cross-Language Communication for TikTok Refugees on Chinese Social Networking Platforms
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Yanchao Yang; Zehang Tan; Xinxin Yang – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2025
As the U.S. government enforces a ban on TikTok, many users are seeking alternative platforms, creating unprecedented opportunities for Chinese social media applications, particularly platforms like Xiaohongshu (RedNote). These platforms have seen a significant increase in downloads in the U.S. market, showcasing the global potential of Chinese…
Descriptors: Refugees, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Accuracy
Buying into the Meritocracy: Taiwanese Students and the Market for College Admissions Services
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Chen, Kenneth Han; Berman, Elizabeth Popp – Sociology of Education, 2022
The meritocratic ideal prescribes that universities should admit students based on academic ability and individual effort. Yet as competition for scarce slots has increased, markets for services to improve the odds of admission have expanded. We use the case of a popular online forum for elite Taiwanese students seeking graduate study in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Academic Ability
Pupils' Motivation and Perceptions on ESL Lessons through Online Quiz-Games
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Halim, Mohd Shakir Azfar Abdul; Hashim, Harwati; Yunus, Melor Md – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
Some scholars believe that the English proficiency and literacy level among the pupils in this country is deteriorating alarmingly and to overcome this issue, many measures have been taken by the government. Research showed that this issue could be caused by lack of motivation among learners to use English in their lives. This study examined…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
What Causes the Bilingual Disadvantage in Verbal Fluency? The Dual-Task Analogy
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Sandoval, Tiffany C.; Gollan, Tamar H.; Ferreira, Victor S.; Salmon, David P. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
We investigated the consequences of bilingualism for verbal fluency by comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, and dominant versus non-dominant-language fluency. In Experiment 1, bilinguals produced fewer correct responses, slower first response times and proportionally delayed retrieval, relative to monolinguals. In Experiment 2, similar results…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Speech Communication, Oral Language, Competition
Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
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Dengub, Evgeny – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Heritage speakers (HSs) of Russian in the United States form a very complex and diverse group of learners. Research in heritage linguistics has examined key parameters of the HSs' oral production. Important work has been done in heritage language (HL) pragmatics, morphology, and lexicon. However, very few studies have been conducted to…
Descriptors: Russian, Accuracy, Language Fluency, Heritage Education
The Achiever. Volume 5, Number 2
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Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2006
"The Achiever" is a monthly publication for parents and community leaders from the Office of Communications and Outreach, U.S. Department of Education (ED). Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) President Sets Agenda for Education; (2) "Beating…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Competition