Objective. Bilingualism has been shown to benefit executive function (EF) and delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. This study aims at examining whether a bilingual advantage applies to EF in Parkinson's disease (PD). Method. In a cross-sectional outpatient cohort of monolingual English (n = 57) and bilingual Welsh/English (n = 46) speakers with PD we evaluated the effects of bilingualism com...

This paper examines current practices that embrace the union between foreign language (L2) teaching and translation in higher education (HE). The rejection of monolingualism prescriptive principles favour bi-, multi-, or plurilingualism; a diversified interdisciplinarity; new sociocultural realities characterised by greater international mobility; different needs challenges teaching; an opennes...

The recent rise in the number of English-medium journals non-Anglophone countries stems from hegemony English global scholarly communication, and language requirements outlined by such to authors offer a valuable yet often overlooked source information terms underlying values assumptions concerning knowledge production circulation. Drawing on notion “semiperiphery” refer Brazil’s current standi...

We study the role played by bilinguals in the competition between two languages and in the formation of a bilingual community. To this aim we introduce a simple three-state model that combines the Minett-Wang model, in which the bilinguals do not affect directly the probability of transition of an individual from monolingualism to bilingualism, and the Baggs-Freedman model, in which such a tran...

Understanding the cultural and linguistic diversity of young children with hearing loss informs the provision of assessment, habilitation, and education services to both children and their families. Data describing communication mode, oral language use, and demographic characteristics were collected for 406 children with hearing loss and their caregivers when children were 3 years old. The data...

This paper concerns the conceptual and pedagogical issues that revolve around target language (TL) only instruction and teacher codeswitching in the context of TL classrooms. To this end, I first examine four intertwined ideas (that is, monolingualism, naturalism, native-speakerism, and absolutism) that run through the monolingual approach to TL teaching, with a discussion of why these assumpti...

Academic writing centres in non-Anglophone countries navigate language policies that encourage the development of local languages and English within multilingual university settings. These entail diverging ideologies connect use to diversification standardisation aims. Although are stakeholders academic therefore participants policy process, their role agency this process has been neglected. Th...