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David, Opanga; Nsengimana, Venuste – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to assess how the Inquiry Based Learning approach supports the development of students' academic language proficiency in invertebrate systematic. The study was framed by Halliday's sociolinguistic approach to learning. A total of 50 classroom observation sessions at 10 schools were conducted: 10 before and 40 after…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Check Lists, Foreign Countries, Inquiry
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Saffran, Jenny; Hauser, Marc; Seibel, Rebecca; Kapfhamer, Joshua; Tsao, Fritz; Cushman, Fiery – Cognition, 2008
There is a surprising degree of overlapping structure evident across the languages of the world. One factor leading to cross-linguistic similarities may be constraints on human learning abilities. Linguistic structures that are easier for infants to learn should predominate in human languages. If correct, then (a) human infants should more readily…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Grammar, Language Patterns, Infants