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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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Li, David C. S.; Chuk, Joanne Y. P. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Based on qualitative data obtained from 15 South Asian (SA) B.Ed. (EL) (Bachelor of Education in English Language) students, this study reports on SA students' difficulty in mastering Mandarin-based written Chinese and the vernacular Cantonese in Hong Kong. For convenience, SA here also refers to students whose homeland is the Philippines.…
Descriptors: Asians, Sino Tibetan Languages, Qualitative Research, Undergraduate Students
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Aparicio, Xavier; Lavaur, Jean-Marc – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This study aims to examine language dominance and language switching effects in a series of monolingual and multilingual lexical decisions in which participants have to decide if the presented letter string is a word or not, regardless of language. Thirty participants (12 French-English bilinguals and 18 French-English-Spanish trilinguals) were…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
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González Ardeo, Joseba M. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
An exploratory study to analyse the prospective increase of trilingual identity in engineering students from the Basque Country is carried out in this article. The differences of two groups of students were analysed by taking into account the answers provided in two similar questionnaires, one in 2004 and the other in 2012. The results obtained…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Engineering Education, Language Attitudes, Self Concept
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Pauwels, Anne – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
In this paper, I explore the impact of linguistic super-diversity on the teaching of languages at tertiary level. Through a small-scale study of university-based language teachers in Australia and the United Kingdom, I examine to what extent these teachers have become aware of the changed language profiles that their students are bringing to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Clyne, Michael; Cordella, Marisa; Schüpbach, Doris; Maher, Brigid – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
This article reports on an inter-generational inter-cultural pilot project carried out in suburban Melbourne which supports the second-language acquisition of younger people and enhances the social inclusion of older people of migrant background. The article begins with an outline of the multilingual context in which the project is based. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Social Integration, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Marriott, Helen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
Employing the language management framework, this paper reports on multilingual use among the staff of a major metropolitan university in Melbourne and covers both simple and organised management. It describes a top-down attempt to survey staffs' (academic and general) background in Languages other than English (LOTE), LOTE usage and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Language Planning, Multilingualism