A new Concordia study of early childhood bilingualism in Canada reveals a portrait of language acquisition in the home that reflects the country's diversity. Immigration patterns, urban–rural demography and Indigenous populations ...
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In today's global society, bilingualism is increasingly common. Many grow up with one language at home and another at school. In a new dissertation at Umeå University, Baran Johansson has investigated how children in grades ...
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Feb 21, 2022
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A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.
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Dec 16, 2021
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As the number of Spanish-speaking English learners has increased in U.S. schools, research and attention have focused on how to boost students' reading and speaking skills. A first-of-its-kind study from the University of ...
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Oct 14, 2021
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It's estimated that half the world's population is bilingual, and two-thirds of the world's children grow up in an environment where several languages intersect. But while bilingualism is common, its definitions are varied. ...
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Jun 10, 2021
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Knowledge of multiple languages has long been shown to have lifelong benefits, from enhancing communication skills to boosting professional opportunities to staving off the cognitive effects of aging.
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Jan 23, 2020
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Some children learn to read early. Others need more time. But we can do some things to help them, and one of them is important to do first.
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Nov 05, 2019
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In the Netherlands approximately 130 out of 700 secondary schools offer a bilingual stream. However, research about CLIL (content and language integrated learning) is limited. With her dissertation Evelyn van Kampen (Ph.D. ...
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Aug 12, 2019
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Not all dual-language learners are at risk academically, but as a group, these students are often labeled as such, despite differences in their English skills.
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Nov 08, 2017
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At the dinner table, babies do a lot more than play with their sippy cups, new research suggests.
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Sep 02, 2016
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Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness. Thanks to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages is getting more and more frequent, and triggering therefore the need to acquire more and more languages.
People who speak more than one language are also called polyglots.
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