Past Events
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The advantages of part-time PhD-studies: investigating second language acquisition while being a teacher at an elementary school for second language learners
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Bilingual learning spaces: Lessons from using WhatsApp videos in a Ghanaian rural context
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Plurilingual Pedagogies in Language Teacher Education: Rethinking TESL/TESOL Programs
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Is the full potential of educated immigrants in »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ being realized?
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Response Styles in Student Evaluation of Teaching
This book bridges that gap using interviews with four prominent academic experts in linguistic human rights, mother tongue education and bilingual and multilingual education. The author examines the arguments for rejecting multilingual education in Iran, and the four interviewees counter those arguments with evidence that mother tongue-based education has resulted in positive outcomes for the speakers of non-dominant language groups and the country itself.
This consciousness of language is essential not only to acquiring literacy but also to the formation of systematic thought and rationality. The Mind on Paper is a compelling exploration of what literacy does for our speech and hence for our thought, and will be of interest to readers in developmental psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, and education.