COURT ORDERED BILINGUALISM

Investigating Predictors of Treatment Attrition Among Court- Ordered Batterers

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in demographic variables and psychological variables between treatment completers and drop-outs among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program. Method: The study gathered Domestic Violence Inventory (DVI) scores from 91 men, 66 treatment completers and 25 drop-outs, beginning court-ordered treatment for domestic ...

Patient warnings in court-ordered evaluations of children and families.

The rules covering disclosure of information generated by court-ordered clinical evaluations in Massachusetts require that patients be warned that the patient-psychotherapist privilege does not apply to the evaluation interview. The nature of the warning required ("the Lamb warning") is not perfectly clear and is especially uncertain when those being warned are children and families. Comparing ...

Lower court ordered to drop murder charges against physicians. Court of Appeal of the State of California.

Bimodal bilingualism.

Speech-sign or "bimodal" bilingualism is exceptional because distinct modalities allow for simultaneous production of two languages. We investigated the ramifications of this phenomenon for models of language production by eliciting language mixing from eleven hearing native users of American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Instead of switching between languages, bilinguals frequently produced...

Bilingualism and L3 Acquisition

مقاله حاضر کنش زبانی دوزبانه‌های آذری‌زبان و تک‌زبانه‌های فارسی‌ زبان را در فرایند یادگیری زبان سوم مورد بررسی قرار می‌دهد. پژوهش‌های موجود درباره توانایی‌های فرازبانی و شناختی زبان‌آموزان‌ کودک حاکی از این است که دوزبانه‌ها با توجه به کسب تجارب قبلی در یادگیری زبان دوم،در فراگیری زبان سوم موفق‌تر بوده و کنش زبانی آنها متفاوت‌تر از تک‌زبانه‌ها خواهد بود. در این تحقیق کنش زبانی دو گروه ده نفری ا...