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OH sole Mio: Ascona. (Going places).(Brief Article)
Swiss News
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April 1, 2002
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With its picturesque location on Lake Maggiore in canton Ticino, this small town (population 5,000) offers the gentlest climate in Switzerland. In Ascona, it's already spring.
Artistic and cultural heritage:
Many artists who lived in Ascona during the Renaissance era left behind a treasure of artistic works, the most famous of which is the baroque edifice, "Casa Scrodine." At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century a group of idealists seeking a return to nature founded a colony on Ascona's most prominent ...
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Bilinguality and Bilingualism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Bilinguality and Bilingualism. By JOSINE F. HAMERS AND MICHAEL...overview of the main issues of bilingualism. It is designed as a source of...dimensions of bilinguality and bilingualism: the former term is reserved for...
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Magazine article from: Bilingual Review
; ...cognitive development in the studies of bilingualism? The belief widely held up to the 1960s that bilingualism had only negative effects on children...challenged. It is now believed that bilingualism has a positive effect on children...
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Official Bilingualism in Country - the Real Challenges.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...commemorate re-unification and official bilingualism in Cameroon. This year, the celebrations...it came about. February 11, like bilingualism in Cameroon, marks the reunification...enactment of that option? In appreciating bilingualism in Cameroon, I wish to affirm that...
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Our Bilingualism is in Quest of Excellence - Yang.
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; ...Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- "Bilingualism has come to stay in Cameroon. There...Regional Linguistic Centre, Buea."The bilingualism policy is doing very well. It is not...train their workers in the spirit of bilingualism so as to make them competitive in the...
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Bilingualism, cultural transmutation, and fields of coexistence: California's Spanish language legacy.(Report)
Magazine article from: Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
; ...in California and their impact on bilingualism as a natural acquisition process. Factors that propagate bilingualism such as a continual flow of Spanish...persistence of Spanish/English bilingualism and cultural nuances of language...
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Born-Again Bilingualism [Sorry, I Don't Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away]
Magazine article from: Literary Review of Canada
; Born-Again Bilingualism An anglo journalist charts the ups...it, after 40 years of official bilingualism. Three hundred thousand kids are...terms with its French fact. Because bilingualism has not moved much beyond the political...
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Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy, and Cognition
Magazine article from: Bilingual Research Journal
; ...University Bialystok, Ellen (2001). Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy...Cambridge University Press. The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in...perspectives in order to understand how bilingualism affects cognitive abilities like memory...
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Bilingualism as a future investment: The case of Japanese high school students at an international school in Japan
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Bilingualism brouhaha in Canada.
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; ...fact that the spread of Ottawa's bilingualism policy since its introduction on the...French-speakers and AIDS. Comparing bilingualism opponents to cancer and wolfpacks is...praiseworthy vigilance. Canada's official bilingualism was supposed to prevent the inexorable...
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