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50 Years of ERIC
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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Multilingualism in Cyberspace: Conceptualising the Virtual Linguistic Landscape
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Ivkovic, Dejan; Lotherington, Heather – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
The linguistic landscape (LL) is a sociolinguistic concept that captures power relations and identity marking in the linguistic rendering of urban space: the city read as text. As such, LL is embedded in the physical geography of the cityscape. However, with the increasing scope of multilingual capabilities in digital communications, multilingual…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Information Technology, Multilingualism, Physical Geography
Successful Kids from Immigrant Families: An Investigation of the Complex Multilingual Worlds of 10-Year-Old Gifted Writers in Suburban Toronto
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Lotherington, Heather; Eamer, Allyson – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This paper discusses a case study of a small cluster of 10- and 11-year-old multilingual children, all first- or second-generation Canadians living in suburban Toronto, who collaboratively wrote an elaborate adventure book in English as a Grade 5 enrichment activity. We explore the language worlds of these gifted young writers to trace their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Immigrants, Collaborative Writing