abstractthis study evaluated the translation quality of english equivalents of persian proper nouns in the tourist signs and bilingual boards in isfahan. to find different errors in the translations of the bilingual boards and tourist signs, the data were collected directly by taking picture or writing exactly from the available tourist signs and bilingual boards. then, the errors were assessed...

Abstract This study evaluated the translation quality of English equivalents of Persian proper nouns in the tourist signs and bilingual boards in Isfahan. To find different errors in the translations of the bilingual boards and tourist signs, the data were collected directly by taking picture or writing exactly from the available tourist signs and bilingual boards. Then, the errors were assesse...

cross-culturally, that are related to phonological awareBilingual children receive special education services ness (Paulesu et al., 2001). It is increasingly clear that at a considerably higher rate per capita than monolingual the development of literacy and preliteracy skills should children in this country (Garcia, 1993). Many of these include the teaching of phonological awareness and referr...

Bilingual schooling in developing countries is in the process of growing out of its historical roots in scattered missionary efforts, separate-but-unequal mother tongue schooling, and/or ragtag experimentation into better informed and more systematic programs. Positive results and changes in political climate have encouraged both government education ministries and donor agencies to reconsider ...

Most D/HH learners experience language deprivation because they lack full access to a comprehensible input. Sometimes, this continues through school of the rigid policy and teachers’ failure recognize include all linguistic repertoires which bring. Like many other teacher education programs, some Deaf preparation programs have adopted assimilationist ideologies, subtractive approaches bilingual...

We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference-in-differences framework exploiting variation in exposure to the reform across years of schooling and years of birth. We find positive wage returns to bilingua...