Linguistically responsive teaching (LRT) means understanding the role that language has in building meaningful learning environments. In this paper linguistically is viewed as one way of implementing notion intercultural education. This qualitative study analysed data from 10 specialist teachers and mainstream to examine their perceptions linguistic responsiveness Spanish a second immigrant stu...

BACKGROUND Health promotion has the potential to empower people to develop or maintain healthy lifestyles. However, previous research has visualised serious health and healthcare inequities associated with ageing, cultural affiliations and linguistic preferences. Therefore, this study was part of a larger health promotion project, set out to bridge barriers to health for ageing persons who have...

Abstract Progress in cross-lingual modeling depends on challenging, realistic, and diverse evaluation sets. We introduce Multilingual Knowledge Questions Answers (MKQA), an open- domain question answering set comprising 10k question-answer pairs aligned across 26 typologically languages (260k total). are based heavily curated, language- independent data representation, making results comparable...

It has previously been suggested that there is a need for more language focused science instruction, especially in linguistically diverse classrooms, where many students are second learners. But it also teachers may feel uncertainty about how to teach ways promote learning of both subject matter and language. Previous studies have revealed the science, written used create certain meaning. Resea...