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This study examined students’ (N = 659) and teachers’ 74) stances toward linguistic cultural diversity in Finland after national educational policy reforms. The were positive, the students felt appreciated at school; however, differences found based on gender, age, first language of between teacher groups. Positive languages use seemed to decrease with older other L1 than Finnish had a lower se...

The purpose of this study is to highlight the versatility bilingualism types in past and present time Turkey examine extent which concept finds its place related Turkish literature. also focuses on status immigrants considering sociological elements society ethnicity. data includes books articles literature the-ses available at Higher Education Council Thesis Center. Thus, was carried out a sty...

Our longitudinal study examined the cognitive and linguistic development of bilingually-educated, yet monolingually-raised, Spanish children, exploring (a) whether bilingual education procured a advantage, (b) greater L2 exposure was key to producing it, (c) how proceeded over time. We compared three groups children in Years 1 2 primary Spain: one attending monolingual (MON), two English-Spanis...

22q11 Syndrome is one of the so-called rare diseases. This syndrome characterized by certain physical alterations. However, its manifestations also occur in other areas. At linguistic level, there mainly an alteration production language. In educational area, cause learning difficulties that will vary depending on cognitive level. All these characteristics, course, have repercussions at psycho-...

Analyzing and assessing the quality of classroom lessons on a range of quality dimensions is a number one educational research topic, as this allows developing teacher trainings and interventions to improve lesson quality. We model this assessment as a text classification task, exploiting linguistic features to predict the scores in several lesson quality dimensions relevant for educational res...

This paper examines the use of the Disability Discrimination Act (Commonwealth of Australia, 1992) by parents seeking access for their deaf children to native sign language in the classroom. It reviews a number of cases in which Australian parents have claimed indirect discrimination by educational authorities over their children's lack of access to instruction through Australian Sign Language ...