Sökning: "Linguistic skills"

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  1. 6. Determinants and Consequences of Language-in-Education Policies : Essays in Economics of Education

    Författare :Christelle Garrouste; Holger Daun; Henry M. Levin; François Grin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Language-in-education policies; decision-making analysis; non-cooperative game; language skills; HLM; human capital theory; rate of return analysis; post-colonial Africa; IALS; SACMEQ; International education; Internationell pedagogik; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three empirical studies. The first study, Rationales to Language-in-Education Policies in Postcolonial Africa: Towards a Holistic Approach, considers two issues. First, it explores the factors affecting the choice of an LiE policy in 35 African countries. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Immigrant Careers - Why Country of Origin Matters

    Författare :Jonas Helgertz; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; income attainment; early-life; glass ceiling; occupational mobility; immigrants; labor market; Sweden; pre-migration characteristics; linguistic distance;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the labor market outcomes of a population of natives and immigrants in Sweden from 1968 and until 2001. Previous research has consistently pointed to the importance of an individual’s country of origin, without being able to fully explain why this is the case. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Lire et comprendre en français langue étrangère : Les pratiques de lecture et le traitement des similitudes intra- et interlexicales

    Författare :Anna Nilsson; Inge Bartning; Gunnel Engwall; Michel Fayol; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; foreign language; reading comprehension; reading practices; cross-linguistic similarities; intra- and interlingual processing; L3 mental lexicon; French language; Franska språket; French; franska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates learners’ reading practices and especially the processing of cross-linguistic similarities at the lexical level. The aim is to determine how learners proceed in order to understand text in French (L3). Data were collected using various reading comprehension tasks in combination with the think-aloud method. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Supporting mathematical reasoning through reading and writing in mathematics : making the implicit explicit

    Författare :Cecilia Segerby; Malmö högskola; []
    Nyckelord :Educational Design Research; Grade 4; Mathematic reasoning; Reading; Reciprocal Teaching Model; Systemic Functional Linguistic; Writing;

    Sammanfattning : In school mathematics, mathematical reasoning with an emphasis on language is considered an important competence. A student’s competence to reason in mathematics requires specific reading and writing skills, but suitable activities to support these skills are difficult to find. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Communicating Your Way to a Theory of Mind. The development of mentalizing skills in children with atypical language development

    Författare :Kerstin Falkman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cognitive development; Kommunikationspsykologi; Language development;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aimed to study the development of theory of mind (ToM) in two groups of children with atypical language development, using a longitudinal design. The two groups were children with cerebral palsy and severe speech impairment (SSPI) (aged between 5 and 7 years at the first data collection) and deaf non-native, early signing, children (aged between 7 and 10 years at the first data collection), the emphasis being on the deaf children. LÄS MER