Linguistic Capital in Iran: Using Official Language or Mother Tongue

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

Rereading the ratio of two language backgrounds (standard language and mother tongue) in education based on lived experience of primary teachers

The purpose of the current research is to review the ratio of two linguistic approaches (standard language and mother tongue) in education based on the lived experience of elementary teachers. The research paradigm is interpretive/constructive, the research approach is qualitative, the research strategy is phenomenology, and the research tactic is latent content analysis. The purposeful samplin...

Official language minority communities in Canada: is linguistic minority status a determinant of mental health?

OBJECTIVES Language has been identified as a determinant of mental health. Within Canada, individuals may speak an official language and still belong within the linguistic minority (Francophones outside Quebec and Anglophones within Quebec). The objectives of this study were to compare mental health problems between minority and majority official language communities, and examine the associatio...

Using detailed linguistic structure in language modelling

Recently, considerable attention has been accorded to attempts to apply natural language processing techniques to language modelling for speech recognition. Another extension to the standard n-gram technique has been the use of trigger-pair predictors. In the present experiments, we incorporate into language models, information derived from detailed syntactic and semantic parses and taggings. W...