Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing … pronunciation and vocabulary of language pairs. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period from 1997 to … 2003, the linguistic distance measure is applied within a human capital framework of language acquisition. It is shown that …

continuous approach to characterize the optimal resolution of the trade-off between the precision of a language and the … complexity of the structures it uses, and its dependence on the information the language is used to describe. Notably, when the … cost of communication is endogenized using information theory, all words in an optimal language are equally precise and …

Can language be centrally planned and controlled? Friedrich Hayek considered language the archetypal example of … spontaneous order, yet many countries adopt a planned order approach to language, attempting to centrally plan and control it … through language academies. I collect original data on the regulation of language across countries, and show that countries …

lie, and revealing the factors influencing professional adjustment in the sphere of foreign language teaching. The … studied using a valid sample of specialists in language teaching: resilience was considered one of the central, individual …

Although a variety of the English language written olympiads (language competitions) exist, fairly little is known … about how they are different from traditional forms of language assessment. In Russia, olympiads in the English language are …. The present study examined major differences between language olympiads and traditional forms of language assessment. A …

We experimentally investigate whether using a foreign language affects social and personal norms on dishonesty, and … whether language dependent norms explain lying behaviour. Participants can inflate their relative performance in a real effort … task, and thereby increase their own payoff at a cost to another. As our main treatment manipulation, we vary the language …

Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …

effective language learning. Although various studies have been conducted on this particular topic, perceptions from diverse …. This study hence, explored the perceptions of language learners from varied cultural backgrounds to provide a better … out the varied factors that influence language learning. Result showed five important factors as technology, environment …