Socioeconomic Status, English Exposure and CLIL Motivation in High and Low Exposure CLIL Groups

Lead Exposure and the Perpetuation of Low Socioeconomic Status

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Intelligibility within a Modified CLIL Framework

The paper provides a brief summary of what CLIL is and why it is regarded as a mainstream pedagogical approach today. The paper’s aim is to state the significance of language within Zydatiß’ modified version of 4Cs framework of CLIL and to recommend the re-modified 4Cs framework of CLIL. The paper further stresses the importance of pronunciation for communication focusing on intelligibility as ...

Lead Exposure, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Disparities

Do socioeconomic status and family circumstances mediate the adverse effects of childhood lead poisoning? Or put more precisely, holding early-life lead exposure constant, do individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds exhibit more serious cognitive and behavioral deficits than individuals from more privileged backgrounds? Using a unique data set that links U.S. army recruits to early life circu...

Supporting Active Learning in CLIL through Collaborative Search

In CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) the context is to explicitly teach a subject through a foreign or second language but also implicitly to teach a language through a subject; adding the activity of social networking is part of making the context, and hence language learning, real. In this paper we describe the learning design and infrastructure of a CLIL seminar for trainee tea...