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Ting, Yen-Ling Teresa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
As increasingly more upper secondary schools mainstream bilingualism via an array of strategies, databases collecting students' appraisals of their bilingual experiences become invaluable for informing practice. This paper discusses how the ADiBE Interview Protocol was adapted to efficiently collect candid appraisals from 99 students attending a…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Language Attitudes
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Maria Mazzoli; Marta Lupica Spagnolo; Vittorio Dell'Aquila – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2024
This article addresses key issues related to diverse cases of migration to complex multilingual environments within Europe. Data came from three case studies carried out within the scope of the MIME project: (ex-)Yugoslavian refugees to South Tyrol (Italy); Portuguese work migrants to Andorra; and international managers in Vasa (Finland). Data…
Descriptors: Migrants, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries
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Bora, Simona Floare – Research in Drama Education, 2022
This paper investigates the pedagogical use of authentic plays for developing learners' L2 oral skills, measured as global accuracy pronunciation accuracy, syntactic complexity and mean length of AS-units (MLAS). The study was conducted with final year high-school students (N = 10) in an Italian compulsory curriculum. A text-based approach (TBA)…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Second Language Learning, Accuracy, Language Fluency
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Ruhl, Nadja; Polkina, Darya; Gorobets, Elena; Ozbic, Martina; Marini, Andrea – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study focuses on the assessment of working memory and linguistic skills in 21 Italian-Russian speaking bilingual children who were born in Italy and inherited Russian from their parents. Their performance was compared to that of 21 monolingual Russian-speaking and 21 monolingual Italian-speaking peers. For the assessment of the two languages…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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De Angelis, Gessica – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
The present article examines the effect of population distribution on L1 (Italian) and L2 (German) acquisition in the multilingual context of South Tyrol, Italy. Population distribution is regarded as a central variable to assess the impact of two factors included in willingness to communicate (WTC) theory: (1) Fear of assimilation to the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
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Videsott, Gerda; Herrnberger, Barbel; Hoenig, Klaus; Schilly, Edgar; Grothe, Jo; Wiater, Werner; Spitzer, Manfred; Kiefer, Markus – Brain and Language, 2010
The human brain has the fascinating ability to represent and to process several languages. Although the first and further languages activate partially different brain networks, the linguistic factors underlying these differences in language processing have to be further specified. We investigated the neural correlates of language proficiency in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Zanardi, Nicoletta – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents data from a cross-sectional study of the use of cohesion in Italian texts written by second-language adult learners and by native speakers. The study's goal was to compare learners and native speakers in their use of cohesion and to observe the developmental sequences in the use of cohesion. Data interpretation is presented. (64…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis