The migrant women's AOD study employed both professional interpreters and a range of bilingual workers from different backgrounds to assist with various aspects of the project.
UNICEF has been active at the country level, with various programmes and activities specifically designed to advance the rights of indigenous peoples, and with projects ranging from bilingual and intercultural education to culturally sensitive health services, birth registration and the fight against violence, abuse and exploitation.
For example, the current study found that the bilinguals scored within the average range on receptive vocabulary, whereas most studies of Spanish English bilinguals and ELLs find the opposite (e.g., Fernandez, Pearson, Umbel, Oller, & Molinet-Molina, 1992; Uchikoshi, 2006).
A steady stream of studies over the past decade has shown that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in a range of cognitive and social tasks, from verbal and non-verbal tests to how well they can "read" other people.
They urged that parents be given several choices at the beginning, ranging from the traditional bilingual approach to a "sink-or-swim" system that involves virtually full-time immersion in English.
These were 33 English-Japanese bilingual children and 59 Japanese monolingual children ranging from 55 to 85 months.
Fifty-five children successfully completed the study: 40 Sylheti-English sequential bilinguals (Mage at start = 52.7 months, range = 46 57 months; 25 female, 15 male) and 15 monolingual English controls (Mage at start = 54.2 months, range = 47 57 months; 7 female, 8 male).
For each of the categories, English and bilingual researchers looked across the data and explored the range of attitudes and experiences of sub-groups (i.e patients and doctors, male and female, new and re-treated patients, and across counties).
Strategies to overcome barriers to recruitment ranged from transport assistance and monetary incentives, bilingual staff, and inclusion of caregivers.
The topics of the stories range from the confusions of a bicultural and bilingual childhood to the struggles of a dark-skinned woman to recognize her own beauty in the land of Barbie dolls and blond beauty queens".
