During the past 25 years, our understanding of how children acquire language has been considerably expanded by the results of a large number of empirical investigations. Although our knowledge of the language acquisition process has improved, there is as yet no widespread agreement regarding the ...
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Its less significant predecessor, Skandinaven, was first printed in New York in 1851, but floundered within two years. During a nearly 200-year period, the German American press had no equal among the foreign-language press in the United States. In the last three decades of the 19th century...
child L2 learning across different contexts Focuses on learning contexts that intersect with educational provision in the early school years Explores current trends towards a younger starting age for foreign language learning Provides a broad overview of research findings across a range of different ...
Across models, proficiency in the language of instruction, i.e., German, was shown to be the strongest predictor of English receptive skills in Year 9. The authors concluded that there is no evidence for an advantage of an early start after five years of secondary school. Similarly to other...
aThis proposal was made also by early writers on sign language, such as the Abbé de l\'Epée, the French priest who founded public education for the deaf late in the 18th century, and Remy Valade, who wrote the first grammar book on French Sign Language in 1854. These authors believed...
(assistant nurse, registered nurse, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, social worker) that worked daily with the older person and that had at least two years’ work experience in nursing homes. Also, a variation in terms of age, gender and work experience of the participants was desirable....
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programme. This was a national initiative in the United Kingdom to develop the language and communication of children from birth to five years of age. This has helped provide rich learning that is unique to every individ...
If these deaf children are born to hearing parents who do not expose them to a conventional sign language until adolescence, the children are effectively deprived of a usable language model during the early language learning years. They consequently present us with the opportunity to uncover biases...