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Direct linkHickey, Tina; Stenson, Nancy – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
Irish has significant State support, but lacks a research base to support the teaching of Irish reading. Current approaches to teaching Irish reading are presented, and outcomes summarised. Issues of consistency and complexity in Irish orthography are discussed in light of an analysis of a corpus of early reader texts, and the formulation of rules…
Descriptors: State Aid, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading), Irish
Nestor, Niamh; Hickey, Tina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
A language currently at the nexus of change is Kashubian (in Polish: "kaszubski"), a West Slavic language spoken in northern Poland in the province of Pomerania. Termed a "regional language" by the Polish government in preparation for the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (signed in 2003 and ratified in 2008),…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Economic Status, Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages
Peer reviewedHickey, Tina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1991
Study of the effect of supplying audio tapes to accompany leisure reading books in Irish found that the tapes considerably increased native-English-speaking elementary school students' motivation to read, facilitated comprehension, and increased the children's reading rate and pronunciation accuracy. (36 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Elementary Education, Foreign Language Books, Irish
