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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Berthele, Raphael; Wittlin, Gabriele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
In this paper a particular context where receptive multilingualism at work can be observed is discussed. The Swiss armed forces underwent a series of quite dramatic downsizing measures, which lead to a situation with increased amount of mixed groups and linguistically mixed situations regarding the first/native language of officers and the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Armed Forces, Military Personnel
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Peyer, Elisabeth; Kaiser, Irmtraud; Berthele, Raphael – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
This study investigates Italian and French students' grammatical problems while reading in German as an L3 or L4. For the study, we developed a reading test which consists of invented encyclopaedia articles on imaginary animals. These articles enabled us to test various grammatical structures for their receptive difficulty. This paper discusses…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Grammar, Reading Tests, Multilingualism