Migrants' language skills

This topic refers to the  language skills of migrants, both in terms of their first language and languages used in the host society. It concerns language skills and attainment of first-generation migrants, but also of their descendants (second and third generation). Various consequences of migration in terms of the linguistic make-up of a host or sending society are also included in this topic.  

Studies listed under this topic include literature on the relationship between  language and earnings, bilingualism, early second-language acquisition, challenges, and the relationship between ethnic networks and language proficiency. 

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Immigrants' language skills: The Australian Experience in a longitudinal survey

Authors BR Chiswick, PW Miller, YL Lee
Year 2004
Journal Name International Migration Review
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1 Journal Article

A model of destination-language acquisition: Application to male immigrants in Canada

Authors Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
Year 2001
Journal Name Demography
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2 Journal Article

A cross-context study of early language skills of immigrant children in Canada and the Netherlands

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Observed correlations between linguistic proficiency and school success, on the one hand, and existing differences in the academic success of immigrant students across countries, on the other hand, lead to the expectation that there are differences across countries in the early language development of immigrant children. The aim of the present study is therefore to pinpoint factors of success and failure with regard to the language development of bilingual immigrant children by looking across contexts. The contexts in this study are chosen on the basis of academic success: in Canada, immigrant students are rather successful, whereas in the Netherlands they perform below native levels. Immigrants in Canada and the Netherlands differ in socio-economic status, level of education, levels of integration in society, quality of schools immigrant children attend and clustering. These factors influence the quality and quantity of the language immigrant children are exposed to, which, in turn, will have an immediate effect on their linguistic proficiency. The method proposed in this study is innovative. Comparisons in terms of academic performance are routinely carried out between countries, but cross-context studies of early spoken language of immigrant children in contrastive environments, like Canada and the Netherlands, are non-existent. The outcome of this study is relevant for scientific purposes because it enables testing of input-driven approaches to language acquisition. From a societal perspective, the topic of this project is urgent. In the Netherlands, as in various other European countries, the proportion of immigrant children is increasing. Relatively high proportions of these children show delays in primary education. Insight in their language skills may be essential for understanding these delays.
Year 2009
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Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens

Authors Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
Year 1999
Journal Name Journal of Population Economics
Citations (WoS) 58
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4 Journal Article

Are there rewards for language skills? Evidence from the earnings of registered nurses

Authors Christopher K. Coombs, Richard J. Cebula
Year 2010
Journal Name The Social Science Journal
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5 Journal Article

Improving Refugee Well-Being With Better Language Skills and More Intergroup Contact

Authors Linda K. Tip, Rupert Brown, Linda Morrice, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Psychological and Personality Science
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6 Journal Article

Third language acquisition: Additive and substractive multilingualism

Authors Ines Fessi
Year 2015
Journal Name DIRASAT HISPANICAS-REVISTA TUNECINA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
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7 Journal Article

Ethnic networks and language proficiency among immigrants

Authors Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
Year 1996
Journal Name Journal of Population Economics
Citations (WoS) 83
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8 Journal Article

Language skills and earnings: Evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon

Authors Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyfried, William R. Leonard, ...
Year 2007
Journal Name Economics of Education Review
Citations (WoS) 19
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9 Journal Article

International Migration and the Economics of Language

Year 2015
Book Title Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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10 Book Chapter

Destination-language acquisition of recently arrived immigrants: Do refugees differ from other immigrants?

Authors Cornelia Kristen, Julian Seuring
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal for Educational Research Online
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11 Journal Article

The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency

Authors Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
Year 2013
Journal Name Economics of Education Review
Citations (WoS) 7
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12 Journal Article

Language skills and school achievement of bilingual Hispanics

Authors François Nielsen, Steven J Lerner
Year 1986
Journal Name Social Science Research
Citations (WoS) 13
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13 Journal Article

Integrating Translation in Classroom: Facilitating Language Skills

Authors T. Asha Priya, B. Jayasridevi
Year 2018
Journal Name RUPKATHA JOURNAL ON INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN HUMANITIES
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14 Journal Article

A Review on the Impact of Using E-Games for Social Development and Language Acquisition in the English Classroom

Authors T Darvenkumar, V Anitha Devi
Year 2022
Journal Name ECS Transactions
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15 Journal Article

Language proficiency of migrants: the relation with job satisfaction and skill matching

Authors Hans G. Bloemen
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 1
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16 Journal Article

Economic returns to speaking ‘standard Mandarin’ among migrants in China's urban labour market

Authors Wenshu Gao, Russell Smyth
Year 2011
Journal Name Economics of Education Review
Citations (WoS) 26
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17 Journal Article

The complementarity of language and other human capital: immigrant earnings in Canada

Authors Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
Year 2003
Journal Name Economics of Education Review
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18 Journal Article

Integration of immigrants - The role of language proficiency and experience

Authors L DeLander, M Hammarstedt, J Mansson, ...
Year 2005
Journal Name EVALUATION REVIEW
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19 Journal Article

The Role of School Libraries in Reducing Learning Disadvantages in Migrant Children: A Literature Review

Authors Ellen Kleijnen, Frank Huysmans, Ed Elbers
Year 2015
Journal Name Sage Open
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20 Journal Article

Investitionen in Sprachkenntnisse und Migrationsentscheidungen

Principal investigator Panu Poutvaara (Principal Investigator ), Silke Übelmesser (Principal Investigator )
Description
Migration ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten im Zuge der zunehmenden Globalisierung zu einem wichtigen Aspekt geworden. Für die meisten Migranten sind dabei Sprachkenntnisse von großer Bedeutung. Empirische Forschung zum Zusammenhang zwischen Sprachkenntnissen und Migration ist allerdings bisher auf Grund fehlender, qualitativ hochwertiger Daten nur beschränkt möglich. Insbesondere mangelt es an Informationen zu Spracherwerb, Sprachkenntnissen sowie Migrationsabsichten potentieller Migranten. Zudem ermöglicht ein besseres Verständnis der Sprachinvestitionen auch allgemeinere Erkenntnisse zum Zusammenhang von Bildungsinvestitionen und Migrationsentscheidungen.Unser Projekt baut auf drei zusammenhängenden Literatursträngen auf und erweitert diese: (1) Spracherwerb von Erwachsenen vor Migration, (2) (geschlechter-spezifische) Migrationsentscheidungen und (3) Investition in international anwendbare und länderspezifische Bildung im Zusammenhang mit Migrationsentscheidungen. Dazu sollen Befragungen von Sprachkursteilnehmern an Goethe-Instituten durchgeführt werden. Das Goethe-Institut ist ein wichtiger Anbieter von Deutsch-Kursen mit allein 272.000 Kursteilnehmern im Jahr 2015. Befragungen von Universitätsstudierenden sollen diese Befragungen komplementieren. Die Daten werden Informationen zu individuellen Migrationsabsichten und bisheriger Migrationserfahrung enthalten, zum Niveau der Sprachkenntnisse und den Gründen für das (Nicht-)Erlernen von Sprachen, sowie zum sozioökonomischen Hintergrund der Teilnehmer, insbesondere zu ihren Bildungsbiographien. Es sind vier Studien geplant: Die erste Studie wird sich mit den Gründen des Erwerbs von Sprachen im Heimatland und dessen Determinanten befassen. Die zweite Studie wird den Zusammenhang zwischen Migrationsabsichten auf der einen Seite und Sprachkenntnissen und individuellen und länderspezifischen Eigenschaften auf der anderen Seite untersuchen. Der Fokus auf Migrationsabsichten ermöglicht ein besseres Verständnis von Migrationsbarrieren als eine Betrachtung tatsächlicher Migration. In einer dritten Studie wird getestet, ob Migration mit der internationalen Anwendbarkeit der erworbenen Bildung zusammenhängt. Die vierte Studie zielt schließlich darauf ab, Investitionen in Sprachkenntnisse im Kontext geschlechtsspezifischer Migrationsabsichten zu verstehen. Die bedeutende Rolle von Sprachkenntnissen für die Integration von Migranten macht ein detailliertes Verständnis von individuellen Motiven des Spracherwerbs und Migrationsabsichten für die zielgenaue Gestaltung von Politikmaßnahmen bereits vor der Migration erforderlich. Beispiele dafür sind das Angebot von Sprachkursen und gesetzliche Anforderungen an Sprachkenntnissen.Dieses Projekt wird gemeinsam von der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und dem ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München durchgeführt.
Year 2015
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21 Project

The low return to English fluency during the Age of Mass Migration

Authors Zachary Ward
Year 2020
Journal Name EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
Citations (WoS) 11
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23 Journal Article

Understanding Editing Behaviors in Multilingual Wikipedia

Authors Suin Kim, Sungjoon Park, Sooyoung Kim, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 4
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24 Journal Article

French-English bilinguals' processing of morphosyntactic structures: the case of cross-linguistic transfer

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One question central to both bilingual first language acquisition (2L1) and second language development (L2) research is to understand the mechanisms that lead to systematic interaction between the languages, i.e. cross-linguistic influence (CLI). To-date, we know that bilinguals’ two languages are continuously co-activated to some extent at the lexicon and sentence level. Bilinguals need to map different syntactic forms, i.e. one or more for each language, onto the same discourse function, which occasionally leads to the entrenchment of the non-targetlike form. Yet, little is known about how the age of acquisition (2L1 vs. L2) and language dominance (expressive abilities, language exposure) affect the processing mechanisms governing this phenomenon. This project focuses on an aspect of morphosyntactic development (the article system) known to be particularly challenging for both bilingual children and adults. It adopts a unique comparative approach to investigate whether simultaneous French-English bilingual children’s and L2 adult bilinguals’ sentence comprehension is affected by the parallel activation of the article system in specific and generic contexts in two studies using the self-paced moving window method. French is a very restrictive language and requires the projection of a determiner in argument position. In contrast, English allows bare mass nouns and bare plural nouns in non-specific and generic contexts. These cross-linguistic differences will allow us to test (i) whether the co-activation of distinct morphosyntactic forms (article system) depending on the semantic context (specific vs. generic) leads to language interference in French-English bilinguals’ comprehension of sentence structure; (ii) the role of language exposure vs. productive measures of the relative language dominance on the direction and magnitude of cross-linguistic transfers; (iii) to what extent this phenomenon operates differently depending on the age of language acquisition.
Year 2017
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25 Project

Her Mother’s Tongue: Bilingual Dwelling, Being In-Between, and the Intergenerational Co-creation of Language-Worlds

Authors Helen Ngo
Year 2024
Journal Name Critical Philosophy of Race
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26 Journal Article

Nonparametric bounds on the returns to language skills

Authors L Gonzalez
Year 2005
Journal Name JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS
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27 Journal Article

A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Metacognitive Strategies and Multimodal Tools in Blended Learning English Language Classroom

Authors M. Monika, Anitha Devi. V
Year 2022
Journal Name Theory and Practice in Language Studies
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29 Journal Article

Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment

Authors Hania Janta, Peter Lugosi, Lorraine Brown, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Tourism Management
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30 Journal Article

ERP Response Unveils Effect of Second Language Manipulation on First Language Processing

Authors Elvira Khachatryan, Wim Fias, Marc M. Van Hulle, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 3
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31 Journal Article

Language acquisition, unemployment and depressive disorder among Southeast Asian refugees: a 10-year study

Authors M Beiser, F Hou
Year 2001
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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32 Journal Article

Multilingual Lexicon Extraction from Comparable Corpora

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'Given large collections of parallel (i.e. translated) texts, it is well-known how to, by successively applying a sentence- and a word-alignment step, establish correspondences between words across languages. However, parallel texts are a scarce resource for most language pairs involving lesser-used languages. On the other hand, human second language acquisition seems not to require the reception of large amounts of translated texts, which indicates that there must be another way of crossing the language barrier. Apparently, the human capabilities are based on looking at comparable resources, i.e. texts or speech on related topics in different languages, which, however, are not translations of each other. Comparable (written or spoken) corpora are far more common than parallel corpora, thus offering the chance to overcome the data acquisition bottleneck. Despite its cognitive motivation, in the proposed project we will not attempt to simulate the complexities of human second language acquisition, but will show that it is possible by purely technical means to automatically extract information on word- and multiword-translations from comparable corpora. The aim is to push the boundaries of current approaches, which typically utilize correlations between co-occurrence patterns across languages, in several ways: 1) Eliminating the need for initial lexicons by using a bootstrapping approach which only requires a few seed translations. 2) Implementing a new methodology which first establishes alignments between comparable documents across languages, and then computes cross-lingual alignments between words and multiword-units. 3) Improving the quality of computed word translations by applying an interlingua approach, which, by relying on several pivot languages, allows a highly effective multi-dimensional cross-check. 4) We will show that, by looking at foreign citations, language translations can even be derived from a single monolingual text corpus.'
Year 2014
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33 Project

Bilingual communicators within the health care setting

Authors M Johnson, C Noble, C Matthews, ...
Year 1999
Journal Name Qualitative Health Research
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34 Journal Article

Development of the First Language is not a Barrier to Second-Language Acquisition: Evidence from Vietnamese Immigrants to the United States

Authors Anne Nguyen, Fay Shin, Stephen Krashen
Year 2001
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
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35 Journal Article

Determinants of Second Language Proficiency among Refugees in the Netherlands

Authors F. van Tubergen
Year 2010
Journal Name Social Forces
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36 Journal Article

Making Sense of Public Policy on Refugee Integration

Authors Elizabeth Ferris
Year 2020
Journal Name ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Citations (WoS) 11
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37 Journal Article

Speaking fluency, writing fluency and earnings of migrants

Authors Christian Dustmann
Year 1994
Journal Name Journal of Population Economics
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38 Journal Article

Language-based earnings differentials on the Swiss labour market: is Italian a liability?

Authors F Grin, C Sfreddo
Year 1998
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
Citations (WoS) 16
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39 Journal Article

Hebrew language usage: Determinants and effects on earnings among immigrants in Israel

Authors Barry R. Chiswick
Year 1998
Journal Name Journal of Population Economics
Citations (WoS) 83
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40 Journal Article

Bilingual education in an Aboriginal context: examining the transfer of language skills from Inuktitut to English or French

Authors Esther Usborne, Julie Caouette, Qiallak Qumaaluk, ...
Year 2009
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
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41 Journal Article

Arabic transfer in French spoken by Maghreb women living in the Paris region

Authors Maria Ballarin Rosell
Year 2021
Journal Name ANAQUEL DE ESTUDIOS ARABES
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42 Journal Article

Language skills in an ethnically segmented labour market: Estonia 1989-2012

Authors Sven-Kristjan Bormann, Svetlana Ridala, Ott-Siim Toomet
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
Citations (WoS) 1
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43 Journal Article

Language Skills and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in the Netherlands

Authors Yuxin Yao, Jan C. van Ours
Year 2015
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44 Working Paper

Myths about bilingual learning in family life settings: Werner Leopold's child language biographies and contemporary work on children's play practices

Authors Karin Aronsson
Year 2020
Journal Name Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
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45 Journal Article

Bilingualism and Translation: A Teaching Proposal

Authors Monica Perotto
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 1
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46 Journal Article

Learning English in a Third Space? Malay Students in an English-Speaking University in Malaysia

Authors Ridwan Wahid, Zahariah Pilus
Year 2017
Journal Name PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES
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47 Journal Article

Language Proficiency and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from Immigrants in Australia

Authors Jongkwan Lee, Anthony Niu, Hee-Seung Yang
Year 2021
Citations (WoS) 2
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48 Journal Article

Effect of language proficiency on proactive occulo-motor control among bilinguals

Authors Jay Prakash Singh, Bhoomika R. Kar
Year 2018
Journal Name PLOS ONE
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49 Journal Article

Online Political Participation of Refugees in Germany: Analysis of a Survey in Bavaria

Authors Simon Schmidbauer, Maria Becker, Sonja Haug
Year 2024
Journal Name Sage Open
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50 Journal Article

Preschools as language learning environments for children of immigrants. Differential effects by familial language use across different preschool contexts

Authors Oliver Klein, Birgit Becker
Year 2017
Journal Name Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Citations (WoS) 7
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51 Journal Article

Translators and mediators: bilingual young people's accounts of their interpreting work in health care

Authors J Green, C Free, Bhavnani, ...
Year 2005
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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52 Journal Article

Contextualizing Second Language Writing in Literature Courses

Authors Mir Abdullah Miri, Bui Phu Hung
Year 2021
Book Title Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies
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53 Book Chapter

The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Authors Dominique Lemmermann, Regina T. Riphahn
Year 2018
Journal Name Economics of Education Review
Citations (WoS) 2
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54 Journal Article

German Language Acquisition of Refugee Children—The Role of Preschools and Language Instruction

Authors Julian Seuring, Gisela Will
Year 2022
Journal Name Frontiers in Sociology
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55 Journal Article

Multilingual language acquisition in Canada and Germany

Authors Britta Hufeisen
Year 1995
Journal Name Language, Culture and Curriculum
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56 Journal Article

Different Approaches to Cross-Lingual Focus Groups: Lessons From a Cross-Cultural Community-Based Participatory Research Project in the ENRICH Study

Authors Maira Quintanilha, Maria J. Mayan, Jessica Thompson, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name International Journal of Qualitative Methods
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57 Journal Article

Validation of a questionnaire about linguistic attitudes towards a second language learning due to Papua app's use

Authors Beatriz Pena-Acuna, Rafael Crisman-Perez
Year 2021
Journal Name Immigrant Youth and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Analysis of LSIC and 82 Lived Stories
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58 Journal Article

THE INFLUENCE OF HOTEL COMMUNICATION PRACTICES ON MANAGERS' COMMUNICATION SATISFACTION WITH LIMITED ENGLISH-SPEAKING EMPLOYEES

Authors Mary Dawson, Juan M. Madera, Jack A. Neal, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM RESEARCH
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59 Journal Article

Language Proficiency and Health Status: Are Bilingual Immigrants Healthier?

Authors Ariela Schachter, Rachel T. Kimbro, Bridget K. Gorman
Year 2012
Journal Name JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
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60 Journal Article

FROM THE PROBLEMS OF THE THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AMONG NEOPHILOLOGY STUDENTS. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Authors Dagmara Nowacka
Year 2015
Journal Name ROCZNIKI HUMANISTYCZNE
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61 Journal Article

Neurodidactics of Performing Arts: The Impact of Drama Teaching on Second Language Acquisition

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'Since the 1990s, Educational Neuroscience has become an emerging field of research which studies cognitive brain functions (thinking, memory, attention, emotions) and interfaces with the educational environment with the aim of improving teaching and learning. Simultaneously, 'Drama Teaching', a teaching methodology based on performing arts introduced in the 1970s, is now generating interest, especially in Foreign Language Learning. This research project will investigate aspects of cognition involved in the language learning process and it will analyse how Drama Teaching dynamics can impact language learning and proficiency. In order to define Drama Teaching as a methodology which involves the brain-mind-body dimension and fosters development of the learner as a whole person, a cognitive perspective will be adopted in relation to issues of a) embodied cognition, b) role of emotions in learning, c) impact of context and experience on learning d) cross-cultural identity process, development and awareness. Theoretical scientific investigation will be conducted on cognitive aspects relevant to learning, followed by the study and observation of dramatization practices. Development of curriculum and course implementation will follow. Particular attention will be given to the assessment of learning results and proficiency levels, as well as to the cognitive and emotional factors. The inter-disciplinary perspective adopted by this study is aimed at contributing to the debate on creative, interactive Foreign Language Education taking place in Europe and in the world. The scope is to contribute to the multi-disciplinary inquiries of Educational Neuroscience by elaborating a neuroscientifically grounded theory of Drama Teaching which gives educators guidelines to expand the range of teaching possibilities in accordance with the principles of Learning/Teaching of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages”. '
Year 2015
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63 Project

Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities anddisorders in multilingual Europe

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PredictAble aims to train a new generation of young scientists at the crossroads between academic research, technological development in the private sector and clinical practice to pioneer an interdisciplinary approach to language related developmental disorders, like specific language impairment (SLI) and developmental dyslexia (DD). The innovative and timely research program will enhance the understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie developmental disorders of spoken and written language by pooling international experts from academia and the private sector. For the first time, PredictAble applies a truly multidisciplinary and cross-linguistic perspective with a unique and novel combination of cutting-edge approaches and techniques for studying mono- and bilingual children. Thus, PredictAble will provide young researchers with an excellent foundation for making scientific progress in this area, in collaboration with technology development and the transfer of research outcomes to applicants in the private sector and the health sector/clinical practice. Highly recognized experts in the area of language acquisition in very young mono- and bilingual children will work together on the acquisition of spoken and written language in a cross-linguistic approach. The complementarity of the different languages in PredictAble will make it possible to identify language-specific and cross-linguistically valid effects. In cooperation with technological partners from the private sector, PredictAble will optimize recently developed technologies in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience to render them suitable for use with very young children and as diagnostic tools to detect early risks for language-related impairments.
Year 2015
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64 Project

Teaching the Children of Migrants and Refugees

Authors Zala Bojovic
Year 2016
Journal Name ARS & HUMANITAS
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65 Journal Article

Optimizing Second Language Learning: An Examination of Individual Differences in Speech Processing and their Role in Language Learning

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Even though multilingualism is highly prevalent in Europe, those who speak a second or third language often differ substantially from native speakers in ways that hinder efficient communication. Despite it being acknowledged that individual differences play a critical role in learning a foreign language, the majority of research has focused on a narrow subset of factors such as learning strategies and personality traits. OptiSeLL aims to expand this exploration by looking at individual differences in phonological processing and the role they play in second language acquisition. OptiSeLL is based on recent findings from basic research in psycholinguistics showing that listeners differ substantially in how they process the speech signal. Our aim is to expand these novel findings and assess the degree to which they can be applied to second language learning. OptiSeLL specific objectives are to: 1. Examine whether individual differences in speech processing affect the acquisition of new phonological contrasts. 2. Examine whether such differences can also affect novel word learning. 3. Assess the degree to which exposure to different phonetic systems may lead to a more flexible speech processing. In other words, this project will take advantage of the existing individual variability to identify the key factors that facilitate second language learning, possibly through the development of flexible speech perception systems. Once known, we can then explore how we can manipulate these factors to design educational environments that support flexible communication and efficient language learning. In addition, the findings of this project will be of high theoretical significance to the field as they will considerably advance our understanding of basic speech perception mechanisms.
Year 2019
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66 Project

Erwerb von sprachlichen und kulturellen Kompetenzen von Migrantenkindern

Principal investigator Hartmut Esser (Principal Investigator), Oliver Klein (Principal Investigator)
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"Das Projekt „Erwerb von sprachlichen und kulturellen Kompetenzen von Migrantenkindern“ (ESKOM) hatte zum Ziel, die Entwicklungs- und Bildungsverläufe von Kindern mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund und Kindern ohne Migrationshintergrund ab der frühen Kindheit (im Alter von drei Jahren) bis zum Übergang in die Sekundarstufe I (Ende der vierten Klasse) zu analysieren. Hierzu wurden circa 1.200 Familien (die Hälfte davon mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund) in sechs Erhebungswellen befragt. Zusätzlich fanden in verschiedenen Kompetenzbereichen standardisierte Tests mit deren Kindern statt. Darüber hinaus wurden die besuchten Kindergärten und Grundschulen schriftlich befragt. Kompetenzunterschiede zwischen Kindern mit und ohne (türkischem) Migrationshintergrund finden sich bereits im Alter von drei Jahren. In den Bereichen Kognition und Mathematik fallen diese gering aus, im Bereich der deutschen Sprachfähigkeiten finden sich größere Nachteile für türkischstämmige Kinder. Die Kompetenzentwicklung verläuft in den Bereichen Kognition und Mathematik in beiden Gruppen sehr ähnlich. Im Bereich der deutschen Sprachfähigkeiten nehmen die anfänglichen Kompetenznachteile über die Zeit ab, beim kulturellen Wissen hingegen zu. Frühkindliche deutschsprachliche Fähigkeiten erweisen sich als bedeutend für spätere schulische Leistungen und die Übergangswahrscheinlichkeit auf ein Gymnasium. In der frühen Kindheit stellen die Familie sowie vorschulische Bildungseinrichtungen wichtige Lernumgebungen für Kinder dar. Anregende Eltern-Kind-Aktivitäten (z.B. Vorlesen) sind positiv mit der Entwicklung in allen Kompetenzbereichen assoziiert und finden in türkischstämmigen Familien seltener statt als in autochthonen Familien. Die Bedeutsamkeit der Aktivitäten für gesellschaftsspezifische Kompetenzen (deutsche Sprache, kulturelles Wissen) ist vom kulturellen Inhalt der familiären Lernumwelt abhängig. Kinder türkischer Herkunft treten durchschnittlich später in vorschulische Bildungseinrichtungen ein als autochthone Kinder und besuchen häufiger Einrichtungen mit höherem Anteil an Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund. Für türkischstämmige Kinder mit nichtdeutscher Familiensprache zeigt sich ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen einer längeren Kindertagesstättenbesuchsdauer und Deutschsprachfähigkeiten. Qualitätsmerkmale und die ethnische Komposition der Einrichtungen moderieren diesen Zusammenhang. Auch die Ausstattungsqualität der besuchten Grundschule ist positiv mit den Leseleistungen von türkischstämmigen Kinder in der dritten Klasse assoziiert."
Year 2006
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67 Project

Theory and practice: from Delphi-study to pedagogical training

Authors Melina Andronie, Sebastian Krzyzek, Lena Bien-Miller, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name QUALITATIVE RESEARCH JOURNAL
Citations (WoS) 4
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68 Journal Article

Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel

Authors Uschi Cop, Denis Drieghe, Wouter Duyck
Year 2015
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 19
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69 Journal Article

Embodiment of social communication: The affective and sensory bases of second language in early and late bilinguals

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The proposed research program consists of a series of integrated experiments designed to make a contribution to an improved understanding of communication dynamics in the current reality of multicultural societies that requires participation in two (or more) linguistic communities. Specifically the research investigates the implications of emotion language in primary (L1) and secondary language (L2) in early and late bilinguals. The general argument is that the modalities that ground concepts in L1 and L2 are unlikely to be equivalent on behavioral and physiological indicators, particularly with late bilinguals. The main theoretical contribution of this proposal is to be found in the implications that this research is likely to have to the current debate on the embodiment perspective on language. As far as we know, these are the first studies on embodiment using bilingual samples, which may lend new and additional support to the assumptions that cognition and language are grounded on affective bodily states and identify the constrains of such assumptions when L2 is at stake. The applied implications of investigating differences in the modality driven grounding of concepts between L1 and L2 are far reaching for intercultural communication. The proposed research elucidates the factors and conditions that constrain the use of L2 in everyday discourse across a variety of contexts where the daily use of a second language for professional, recreational and interpersonal purposes is increasingly required and has implications for the educational policies regarding second language acquisition.
Year 2012
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Životní styl, jazykové znalosti a potřeby ukrajinských a vietnamských migrantů v ČR

Principal investigator Yana Leontiyeva (principal investigator)
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Výzkumný projekt realizovaný Sociologickým ústavem AV ČR, v.v.i. ve spolupráci s externími odborníky na zakázku Národního ústavu pro vzdělávání. Hlavním cílem projektu bylo zmapování životního stylu a potřeb migrantů v ČR s ohledem na jejich jazykové znalosti a potřeby. Cílovou skupinou projektu byli občané Ukrajiny a Vietnamu pobývající v ČR. Projekt se zaměřil především na první generaci migrantů a migrantek, kteří žijí v ČR poměrně krátce a mají zájem o složení pobytové jazykové zkoušky úrovně A1, nebo tuto zkoušku absolvovali v nedávné době. Projekt se skládal ze dvou částí: 1) sekundární analýza již dostupných výzkumů a dat o situaci migrantů a migrantek, a 2) realizace vlastního kvalitativního pilotního výzkumu metodou hloubkových rozhovorů se zástupci cílové skupiny.
Year 2013
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Životní styl, jazykové znalosti a potřeby ukrajinských a vietnamských migrantů v ČR

Principal investigator Yana Leontiyeva (principal investigator)
Description
Výzkumný projekt realizovaný Sociologickým ústavem AV ČR, v.v.i. ve spolupráci s externími odborníky na zakázku Národního ústavu pro vzdělávání. Hlavním cílem projektu bylo zmapování životního stylu a potřeb migrantů v ČR s ohledem na jejich jazykové znalosti a potřeby. Cílovou skupinou projektu byli občané Ukrajiny a Vietnamu pobývající v ČR. Projekt se zaměřil především na první generaci migrantů a migrantek, kteří žijí v ČR poměrně krátce a mají zájem o složení pobytové jazykové zkoušky úrovně A1, nebo tuto zkoušku absolvovali v nedávné době. Projekt se skládal ze dvou částí: 1) sekundární analýza již dostupných výzkumů a dat o situaci migrantů a migrantek, a 2) realizace vlastního kvalitativního pilotního výzkumu metodou hloubkových rozhovorů se zástupci cílové skupiny.
Year 2013
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72 Project

Diverging views on integration in Estonia, determinants of Estonian language skills among ethnic minorities

Authors H Kulu, T Tammaru
Year 2004
Journal Name Journal of Baltic Studies
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73 Journal Article

Do I need want to speak? Foreigners in a "small" language country

Authors Jogile Teresa Ramonaite
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Baltic Studies
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74 Journal Article

Access to Health Care for Pregnant Arabic-Speaking Refugee Women and Mothers in Germany

Authors Julia Henry, Christian Beruf, Thomas Fischer
Year 2020
Journal Name QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Citations (WoS) 29
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75 Journal Article

PREDICTORS of intercultural capital embodiment in contemporary Mexico

Authors C. Andreas Poellmann
Year 2017
Journal Name REVISTA UNIVERSIDAD Y SOCIEDAD
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76 Journal Article

The Unequal Distribution of Linguistic Capital in a Transnational Economic Order

Authors Jörg Rössel, Julia H. Schroedter
Year 2021
Journal Name Frontiers in Sociology
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77 Journal Article

Neighbourhood Ethnic Density, Local Language Skills, and Loneliness among Older Migrants—A Population-Based Study on Russian Speakers in Finland

Authors Laura Kemppainen, Teemu Kemppainen, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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78 Journal Article

Medium of Instruction in Education: Perceptions of Teachers and Students from Pakistani School, College and University

Authors Muhammad Fareed, Almas Ashraf, Shazia Mushtaque
Year 2019
Journal Name FWU JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Citations (WoS) 6
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79 Journal Article

Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: A Research Synthesis and Methodological Guide

Authors Grazyna Kilianska-Przybylo, Agnieszka Slezak-Swiat
Year 2021
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80 Journal Article

Immigrants' language skills: The Australian experience in a longitudinal survey (vol 38, pg 611, 2004)

Authors BR Chiswick, PW Miller, YL Lee
Year 2004
Journal Name International Migration Review
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81 Journal Article

Integrating an Immigration Law Simulation Into EAP Courses: Instructors' and Students' Perceptions

Authors Ana M. Codita
Year 2016
Journal Name Simulation & Gaming
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82 Journal Article

Influence of English-language Proficiency on the Cognitive Processing of Survey Questions

Authors Hyunjoo Park, M. Mandy Sha, Gordon Willis
Year 2016
Journal Name FIELD METHODS
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84 Journal Article

Performance in Nonword Repetition Tasks among Mandarin-English Bilingual Children in Malaysia

Authors Chai Ping Woon, Ngee Thai Yap, Hui Woan Lim
Year 2020
Journal Name PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES
Citations (WoS) 1
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86 Journal Article

Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child: A Sociolinguistic Perspective.

Authors Sheryl L. Santos, Alvino E. Fantini
Year 1986
Journal Name International Migration Review
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88 Journal Article

Language acquisition of a bilingual child: A sociolinguistic perspective

Authors Armeda C. Reitzel
Year 1982
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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89 Journal Article

Spanish language opportunities in genetic counseling training programs in the United States

Authors Maria Katia Vine, Elizabeth Kellom, Ashley Kuhl, ...
Year 2024
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91 Journal Article

How do German bilingual schoolchildren process German prepositions? - A study on language-motor interactions

Authors Daniela Katharina Ahlberg, Barbara Kaup, Heike Bischoff, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name PLOS ONE
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92 Journal Article

The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in The Netherland

Authors Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman
Year 2003
Journal Name Journal of Population Economics
Citations (WoS) 77
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93 Journal Article

Sharing the same languages helps us work better together

Authors W. Quin Yow, Tony Zhao Ming Lim
Year 2019
Journal Name PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS
Citations (WoS) 8
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94 Journal Article

The role of parents in the speech therapy work with early age children having delay in speech development in a bilingual environment

Authors Irina Aleksandrovna Yudina, Nariyana Vasilyevna Stepanova, Agrafena Dmitriyevna Ivanova
Year 2019
Journal Name AMAZONIA INVESTIGA
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95 Journal Article

NARRATIVES OF NOT BELONGING: THE SYMBOLIC AND FUNCTIONAL MEANING OF LANGUAGE USE IN THE RELATION OF RUSSIAN AU PAIR MIGRANTS TO THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY IN GERMANY

Authors Caterina Rohde-Abuba
Year 2017
Journal Name Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research
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96 Journal Article

"Keep your friends close": Przyswajanie języka obcego poprzez interakcje rówieśnicze a edukacja zdalna w dobie pandemii

Authors Andrzej Jarynowski, Karolina Czopek, Michał B. Paradowski
Year 2021
Journal Name Acta Neophilologica
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98 Journal Article

Language Acquisition of Korean Children in an Indian Multilingual Society

Authors Swati Priya, Rajni Singh
Year 2017
Journal Name RUPKATHA JOURNAL ON INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN HUMANITIES
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99 Journal Article

Discourse connectives and the mind: a cross-linguistic analysis of processing and acquisition

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'Discourse connectives like ‘because’ or ‘so’ in English can be used to relate various kinds of propositional contents, such as two events unfolding in the world (The temperature rises because the sun is shining) or a premise and a conclusion in the mind of a speaker (Max is ill because he didn’t come to work). The proposed study will make use of an array of state-of-the-art empirical methods such as eye-tracking, comprehension experiments, constrained elicitation and corpus analysis in order to investigate the cognitive differences between these different uses of connectives along four complementary axes: their acquisition by normally-developing children and children suffering from autism, their processing by adult speakers, and a cross-linguistic comparison between closely related languages. In addition to enriching our knowledge of the way connectives work, the planned studies will provide answers to several on-going scientific debates with far-reaching implications, both applied and theoretical. In the domain of language acquisition, they will provide important answers for the debate on the relation between language and cognition, and more specifically on the role of children’s mother tongue as a trigger for language acquisition and cognitive development. These studies will also reveal possible differences in processing between school-age children and adults, with important pedagogical implications for syllabus design and the evaluation of textual productions. In the field of autism, they will bring an important contribution to the understanding of the linguistic and communicative impairment of this population. Finally, the cross-linguistic comparisons will contribute to the development of a collaborative multilingual database of connectives, containing a more accurate representation of their meaning than the one found in bilingual dictionaries.'
Year 2012
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