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  • Common European Framework of Reference and L2 learners with a low level of education 
    Janssen-van Dieten, Anne-Mieke (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "The aim of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF) (Council of Europe, 2001) is to achieve more coherence and harmony in the field of languages and comparability of language qualifications within ...
  • Portfolio Methodology for Literacy Learners: The Dutch Case 
    Stockmann, Willemijn (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "In 2001 the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF) was published as the end product of the overall language policy of the Council of Europe. (See Janssen-Van Dieten, this volume.) Members of the ...
  • Preparing Teachers to Help Low-Literacy Adult ESOL Learners 
    Faux, Nancy (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "Across the United States adult immigrants that do not speak English attend ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes in publicly-funded adult education programs. These classes are generally free or at very ...
  • Working Memory, Second Language Acquisition and Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Learners 
    Juffs, Alan (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "The role of memory in language learning has long been of interest to researchers in first and second language acquisition (SLA) (Baddeley, 1999; Ellis, 2001). At an intuitive level, it seems obvious that part of the ...
  • Discovering features of language: metalinguisitc awareness of adult illiterates 
    Kurvers, Jeanne; Vallen, Ton; Hout, Roeland van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "What do illiterate adults know about writing and language? Can they recognize environmental print? How do they think about the representational nature of writing? How would they judge word length? Do they know where in ...
  • Instruction, Language and Literacy: What Works Study for Adult ESL Literacy Students 
    Condelli, Larry; Wrigley, Heide Spruck (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "Adult English as a Second Language (ESL) literacy students lack literacy skills in their native language as well as English communication skills. These learners face the challenge of developing basic skills for decoding, ...
  • Phonological Awareness and Learning to Read a First Language: Controversies and New Perspectives 
    Geudens, Astrid (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "There is a growing consensus among researchers that basic difficulties in learning to read and spell stem from weaknesses in alphabetic and phonological coding (Adams, 1990; Vellutino, Fletcher, Scanlon, & Snowling, ...
  • First-time L2 readers: Is there a critical period? 
    Young-Scholten, Martha; Strom, Nancy (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "The view in post-industrial countries that immigrants are the main source of economic growth rests on the misguided assumption that the typical immigrant has spoken and written second language skills (see Dustman & Fabbri, ...
  • Research on Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition 
    Craats, Ineke van de; Kurvers, Jeanne; Young-Scholten, Martha (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-08)
    "For more than half a century, every adult in post-industrialized societies has been assumed to have had ten or so years of schooling. In these countries “many of the characteristic features of reading are so familiar and ...
  • Evidentiality and epistemic mood in Lakondê 
    Telles, Stella; Wetzels, Leo (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Lakondê represents one of the dialects of Northern Nambikwára, which itself belongs to the larger Nambikwára linguistic family. Already the earliest sources locate the Nambikwara groups in central western Brazil in an ...
  • What’s in a verb? Studies in the verbal morphology of the languages of the Americas 
    Rowicka, Grażyna J.; Carlin, Eithne B. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    Verbal morphology tends to be the most complex part of the grammatical structure of indigenous American languages. Studies in this volume look into the structural complexity that verbal forms can exhibit on the American ...
  • Verbs in Uchumataqu 
    Muysken, Pieter; Hannss, Katja (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Uchumataqu is the by now almost extinct language of the Uru people of Iruitu, a community along the Desaguadero river, which runs from Lake Titicaca into the Bolivian altiplano, the high plateau stretching from La Paz ...
  • Stative verbs vs. nouns in Sateré-Mawé and the Tupian family 
    Meira, Sérgio (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Mawé (or Sateré-Mawé) is a Tupian language with approximately 5,000 speakers living mostly along the Marau and Andirá rivers in the states of Amazonas and Pará, in Brazil. Several studies have already sketched analyses of ...
  • Object cross-reference in Leko 
    Kerke, Simon van de (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "During the second half of the sixteenth century both civilian and missionary expeditions went in search of gold and converts into the lowland Moxos area, in Bolivia. They used the paths that had been followed by the Incas ...
  • The verbalizers in Trio (Cariban): a semantic description 
    Carlin, Eithne B. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Trio has a range of verbalizers, many with aspectual meanings, which are suffixed to a nominal to form a verb. Some of the verbalizers are more productive than others; some result in a transitive, others in an intransitive verb. ...
  • The vicissitudes of directional affixes in Tarma (Northern Junín) Quechua 
    Adelaar, Willem F.H. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Quechua(n) is the name of a family of closely related languages spoken in the Andean nations Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and Chile (here enumerated in order of importance as regards the number of speakers). It ...
  • Verbal number in Itonama 
    Crevels, Mily (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Itonama or sihnipadara (1PL.EXCL-speech) is a genetically unclassified language spoken in lowland Amazonian Bolivia, in the northeast, near to the Brazilian border. Nowadays Itonama is only spoken by a few elders in the ...
  • Valency-changing devices in Metzontla Popoloc 
    Veerman-Leichsenring, Annette (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "The subject of this paper is the valency-changing effect of derivational processes in Metzontla Popoloc. Popoloc is a member of the Popolocan family and is a typical representative of the Otomanguean stock. The ...
  • The transitive linker in Upper Chehalis (Salish) 
    Rowicka, Grażyna J. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "Upper Chehalis (q’way’áyi…q’) belongs to the Salish family and is the best studied language of its Tsamosan branch. It was formerly spoken in central Washington State, USA. Most information about this language comes from ...
  • Athabascan verb stem structure: Tahltan 
    Nater, Hank (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2006-03)
    "In Tahltan, an Athabascan SOV language spoken in northwest British Columbia (Canada), the predicate is complex, as a rule consisting of prefixes and a variable verb stem. Below, I will show that morphonological ...