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Hilliker, Shannon M., Chesla Ann Lenkaitis, and Angie Ramirez. "Expanding teacher candidate linguistic knowledge: Analyzing recorded virtual exchange sessions." EuroCALL Review 29, no. 1 (April 20, 2021): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2021.13241.
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<p>Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teacher candidates must have a working knowledge of English linguistics in order to support their students’ language development. This article reports on TESOL teacher candidates’ reflective practice to highlight how interaction with non-native speakers can develop awareness of linguistic features of the English language through virtual exchange. Sixteen teacher candidates from a university in the United States were paired with 22 undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners from a university in Mexico. The teacher candidates completed journal entries in which they analyzed authentic language produced by their EFL partners during their virtual meetings. Teacher candidates were taking a course that covered topics related to pragmatics, semantics, morphology, phonology and syntax. Each teacher candidate submitted a final error analysis of recorded conversations to determine how many linguistic errors were made by their partners. This study describes the errors the teacher candidates were able to identify in order to explore the benefits of this reflective activity on their understanding of linguistics. This study confirms the need to utilize virtual exchange in teacher preparation programs and subsequent self-reflection in order to give teacher candidates a way to put linguistic content area into practice.</p>
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Oliinyk, Lidiia, Nataliia Romaniuk, Halyna Kuznetsova, Inna Horbenko, and Nadiia Senchylo-Tatlilioglu. "The impact of digital and internet technologies on language development." Eduweb 16, no. 3 (September 28, 2022): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.46502/issn.1856-7576/2022.16.03.3.
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The article is devoted to studying the development of languages under the influence of computer technology. The article aims to determine the impact of digitalization and other factors on the development of Ukrainian and English languages. The study's central hypothesis is that digital technology has significant language development. To empirically confirm this hypothesis, a survey of Internet users was organized, who expressed their opinions about the use of new words (words of foreign origin and slang words) in the process of communication. The study results showed that digital technology impacts language development, but users' vocabulary is expanding following the scope of digital technology. In particular, young people, even having a good knowledge of English, do not know business slang, while the mature generation has almost no knowledge of youth slang originating from entertainment. This study has practical significance for philologists and digital technology professionals who are looking for accessible methods of communication by expanding the speech vocabulary with words of computer origin.
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Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran. "Expanding the Socio-Cultural Knowledge Base of TESOL Teacher Education." Language, Culture and Curriculum 19, no. 3 (December 2006): 278–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908310608668768.
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Washburn, Erin K., and Candace A. Mulcahy. "Expanding Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of the English Language: Recommendations for Teacher Educators." Reading & Writing Quarterly 30, no. 4 (June 18, 2014): 328–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10573569.2013.819180.
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Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana. "Expanding English Vocabulary Knowledge through Reading: Insights from Eye-tracking Studies." RELC Journal 51, no. 1 (April 2020): 134–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033688220906904.
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Students in academic contexts are expected to engage with large amounts of reading and they frequently meet unknown words and phrases in those reading materials. Previous research has shown that second and foreign language learners can acquire some of the unknown vocabulary that they encounter during reading. However, these previous findings were mainly based on scores in off-line, post-reading tests and thus, our understanding of the cognitive processes involved during learning from reading has been rather limited. Technological advancements have made it easier for researchers to explore learners’ online processing behaviour. One of such advancements is eye-tracking, which provides a rich record of online reading behaviour. The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of eye-tracking studies conducted in second/foreign language learning research, with a particular focus on vocabulary learning from reading. This article illustrates how the use of eye-tracking has helped researchers gain a better understanding of the process of vocabulary learning from reading and of the relationship between eye-movements and performance measures. This article discusses recent research findings and identifies directions for future research.
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Haines, Karen. "Expanding the knowledge base of teachers' use of communication tools for language learning." System 62 (November 2016): 102–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2016.07.008.
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Taylor, Kara Michelle, Evan M. Taylor, Paul Hartman, Rebecca Woodard, Andrea Vaughan, Rick Coppola, Daniel J. Rocha, and Emily Machado. "Expanding repertoires of resistance." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 18, no. 2 (June 3, 2019): 188–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0114.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine how a collaborative narrative inquiry focused on cultivating critical English Language Arts (ELA) pedagogies supported teacher agency, or “the capacity of actors to critically shape their own responsiveness to problematic situations” (Emirbayer and Mische, 1998, p. 971). Design/methodology/approach Situated in a semester-long inquiry group, eight k-16 educators used narrative inquiry processes (Clandinin, 1992) to write and collectively analyze (Ezzy, 2002) stories describing personal experiences that brought them to critical ELA pedagogies. They engaged in three levels of analysis across the eight narratives, including open coding, thematic identification, and identification of how the narrative inquiry impacted their classroom practices. Findings Across the narratives, the authors identify what aspects of the ELA reading, writing and languaging curriculum emerged as problematic; situate themselves in systems of oppression and privilege; and examine how processes of critical narrative inquiry contributed to their capacities to respond to these issues. Research limitations/implications Collaborative narrative inquiry between teachers and teacher educators (Sjostrom and McCoyne, 2017) can be a powerful method to cultivate critical pedagogies. Practical implications Teachers across grade levels, schools, disciplines and backgrounds can collectively organize to cultivate critical ELA pedagogies. Originality/value Although coordinated opportunities to engage in critical inquiry work across k-16 contexts are rare, the authors believe that the knowledge, skills and confidence they gained through this professional inquiry sensitized them to oppressive curricular norms and expanded their repertoires of resistance.
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Leggo, Carl. "Alphabet Blocks: Expanding Conceptions of Language With/in Poetry." TESL Canada Journal 23, no. 1 (October 1, 2005): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v23i1.81.
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As a poet and language educator, I invite and encourage writers to take risks in their writing, to engage innovatively with a wide range of genres, to push boundaries in order to explore creatively how language and discourse are never ossified, but always organic; how language use is integrally and inextricably connected to knowledge, identity, subjectivity, and being in the world. I invite writers, whether English is a first language or an additional language, to know themselves in poetry, to know themselves as poets. We live in a contemporary culture that mostly ignores poetry. This is unfortunate because poetry invites alternative ways of knowing and being and becoming. I encourage all writers to write poetry, because poetry is a capacious genre that opens up endless possibilities for expression and communication. In this essay I offer a series of poems about language, discourse, epistemology, and pedagogy. I hope these poems will invite language educators and scholars from diverse perspectives and experiences to consider how writing poetry stimulates the imagination and inspires the heart to ask questions about our lives and the world we live in.
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Fraisse, Amel, Zheng Zhang, Alex Zhai, Ronald Jenn, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Laurence Favier, and Widad Mustafa El Hadi. "A Sustainable and Open Access Knowledge Organization Model to Preserve Cultural Heritage and Language Diversity." Information 10, no. 10 (September 28, 2019): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info10100303.
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This paper proposes a new collaborative and inclusive model for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for sustaining cultural heritage and language diversity. It is based on contributions of end-users as well as scientific and scholarly communities from across borders, languages, nations, continents, and disciplines. It consists in collecting knowledge about all worldwide translations of one original work and sharing that data through a digital and interactive global knowledge map. Collected translations are processed in order to build multilingual parallel corpora for a large number of under-resourced languages as well as to highlight the transnational circulation of knowledge. Building such corpora is vital in preserving and expanding linguistic and traditional diversity. Our first experiment was conducted on the world-famous and well-traveled American novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by the American author Mark Twain. This paper reports on 10 parallel corpora that are now sentence-aligned pairs of English with Basque (an European under-resourced language), Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Ukrainian, processed out of 30 collected translations.
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Chevalier, Joan F. "Heritage Language Literacy: Theory and Practice." Heritage Language Journal 2, no. 1 (August 30, 2004): 26–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.46538/hlj.2.1.2.
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This paper analyzes the process of intergenerational language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective and proposes a pedagogical model for expanding the stylistic range of heritage learners, targeting the development of writing proficiency. The model proposes that the curriculum should be organized so that students initially draw on their knowledge of the spoken language. The norms of various written genres are introduced gradually, progressing from less to more formal and more complex discourse types, with an emphasis on text cohesion.
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Benő, Attila. "Román intézménynevek magyarítása Erdélyben." Névtani Értesítő 43 (December 30, 2021): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.29178/nevtert.2021.6.
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The study examines the translation methods used in the translation of institutional names and their common language use within the context of Hungarian-Romanian bilingualism in Transylvania, noting the language planning tasks that arise from minority status and the results of corpus design so far. The presented translation and language use phenomena emphasize that translating institutional names in minority status is a task for (professional) translation, terminology, and language planning. Within translation, it presupposes practical skills and a high level of bilingualism. In the technical and terminological context, the translation of the name of an institution presupposes an adequate knowledge of the individual fields and languages, in the absence of which unprofessional and ambiguous translations may be created. As a language planning problem, it primarily concerns corpus planning and presupposes the expansion of language rights related to status planning and expanding the scope of using vernacular languages.
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Khakimov, Nazar Kh, and Marguba A. Vakhobov. "INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE PROCESS OF TRAINING COMPETITIVE PERSONNEL." Journal of Social Research in Uzbekistan 02, no. 02 (June 1, 2022): 92–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/supsci-jsru-02-02-10.
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In the article, the authors investigated the place and role of learning foreign languages in the preparation of highly qualified bachelors. Teaching and learning foreign languages in Uzbekistan has become one of the priorities in preparing young people for social life, and expanding their horizons as students. A foreign language is an important kind of key in the knowledge of the secrets of the social humanities and fundamental sciences, including the core disciplines. Taking into account the importance of the mission of a foreign language, and the formation of the moral and spiritual world of students, especially in the knowledge of the essence, the process of deepening market economic relations, cardinal measures are being taken in the higher education system to deepen the study of foreign languages. An innovative approach to learning a foreign language is closely related to increasing the quality requirements of teaching foreign languages in higher educational institutions. The article highlights the role of foreign languages in the professional training of competent personnel. The authors emphasize that under the conditions of a new stage of the country's development, students show an increased interest in learning foreign languages.
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Rooy, A. S. Coetzee-Van. "From the Expanding to the Outer Circle: South Koreans learning English in South Africa." English Today 24, no. 4 (November 7, 2008): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078408000333.
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ABSTRACTLearners of English from ‘Expanding Circle’ countries like South Korea find new opportunities of advancing their English. There is a considerable body of knowledge about the experiences of students who go abroad to continue to learn their language of choice in a natural setting where it is the dominant language. The current position of English as the most dominant international language results in a new phenomenon related to language learning abroad. It is reported that children, and sometimes families, travel abroad to countries where they believe they could improve their English proficiency. This phenomenon seems to be particularly true for learners of English in traditional Expanding Circle contexts, for example, South Korea, where the increase in the status of English is widely reported in academic.
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Walshok, Mary Lindenstein. "Expanding Roles for US Research Universities in Economic Development." Industry and Higher Education 10, no. 3 (June 1996): 142–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042229601000302.
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In the USA, the responsibility for the development of new knowledge and the provision of advanced education and knowledge has remained very predominantly with the research universities. The author argues that it is important to recognize the value of basic science research and of social science studies which do not have an identifiable short-term application — studies in Serbo—Croat language and culture, for example, were of little tangible value in the 1970s but their existence and continuation have been more than justified in recent years. In this context, recognizing the central importance of knowledge in social and economic development and the universities as the main centres for this essential resource, the author examines how the research universities can best supply ‘knowledge linkages' and contribute to regional economic development, in terms of specific approaches and actions. While technology transfer programmes, science parks and applied degrees are all needed, universities have also to reaffirm the significance of their basic research and liberal arts programmes and at the same time to establish and develop linkages between a variety of academic programmes and a variety of constituencies within their regional communities.
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BOCALE, Paola. "HOW ARE LANGUAGES LEARNED? THEORIES ON THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION." Ezikov Svyat volume 18 issue 2, ezs.swu.v18i2 (June 30, 2020): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v18i2.1.
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is work discusses theories on teaching, learning and acquiring foreign languages. The input hypothesis has drawn attention to its role and importance in language acquisition. On the other hand, however, empirical research has emphasized the role that output and interaction play in acquiring and improving language skills. In most communicative acts, there are factors that jeopardise the process of communication, such as lack of lexical knowledge and speech too fast for the listener to understand, causing different comprehension problems. These occur between native speakers and non-native speakers, inside and outside the classroom. Negotiation of meaning can be only defined within an interactive process as the mutual collaboration between speakers and listeners in order to clarify a language misunderstanding using different linguistic strategies such as, for example, word repetition, simplified structures and clarification questions. From one point of view, negotiation of meaning is a communicative exchange and a step towards achieving communication goals. Learners and tutors are involved in communication to solve a problem whose clarification allows conversation to be carried on. From the other point of view, negotiation of meaning is an effective way of expanding the knowledge of learners, because some of the explanations can be internalised and added to their target language repertoire. Learning can be effective only if interaction is included in the overall language aquisition process.
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Zak, Kseniia L. "Characteristic of the culture of foreign language business communication of future lawyers." Focus on Language Education and Research 3, no. 2 (September 16, 2022): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.35213/2686-7516-2022-3-2-31-37.
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In the last few years, international cooperation is expanding. For this reason, the society began to need specialists who is able to carry out business communication in a foreign language. One of the main roles in this situation is played by the knowledge of foreign languages among lawyers. This paper aims to study the characteristic of the culture of foreign language business communication of future lawyers. The application of theoretical research methods contributed to the solution of the problem. The article proposes the author's definition of the concept characteristic of the culture of foreign language business communication of future lawyers, describes its structure. The significance of the results will allow us to further consider in more detail the process of teaching lawyers professional English in a non-linguistic university.
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Yallew, Addisalem Tebikew. "Expanding use of the English language for research and its Implications for Higher Education Institutions and Researchers." Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education 11, Winter (March 15, 2020): 209–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v11iwinter.1556.
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The knowledge era or the knowledge society has made universities one of the central institutions for the production of new knowledge and scholarship. In line with this development, many African universities, that were often regarded as teaching-learning laden, are reorienting their mission and vision embracing research intensiveness as one of their aspirations with the goal of becoming globally or regionally competitive and locally relevant. This qualitiative research focusing on the use of the English language for research in selected African flagship universities in Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa is conducted against a backdrop where questions related to research productivity are becoming more central not only to higher education institutions but to higher educational research pertaining to the continent. Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capital, field, and habitus in general and specifically that of linguistic capital as an aspect of cultural capital are used to inform the conceptualization and the analysis of the research. To explore issues pertaining to the interlinked concepts of language and (de)colonization in research, postcolonial perspectives on language and education are used to guide the study. The study is expected to contribute to our understanding of (English) language and research in African higher education.
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Lazar, Althier Margaret. "From Blame to Awareness: Expanding Teacher Candidates’ Understandings of Emergent Bilinguals’ Literacy and Language Capacities." Journal of Family Diversity in Education 2, no. 1 (March 29, 2016): 70–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.53956/jfde.2016.75.
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Teacher candidates today are likely to blame students and their families in underserved communities for their inability to succeed in school rather than recognize the system of failure embedded in institutional practices that disfavors and disenfranchises minority groups (Castro 2010, p. 207). In particular, many tend to view students’ literacy and language abilities as delayed, often because they assume that students’ caregivers do not have the requisite skills, knowledge, time, or desire to provide their children with school-valued print and language experiences. These deficit orientations of students and families need to be replaced with more informed understandings about the socio-political factors that shape schooling and access to school-valued literacies and languages, and more critical awareness of the types of cultural wealth that exist in these communities (Yosso, 2005). Such inquiry is needed to help candidates to see students’ inherent assets and their own roles in addressing students’ literacy/language needs. This article examines one university’s efforts to complicate teacher candidates’ understandings of children and caregivers through a course called “Literacy, Language & Culture.” Data collected over a two-year period with 191 candidates shows that many teacher candidates can evolve to see children’s literacy and language capacities to varying degrees and their own responsibility in fortifying instruction for students and connecting with caregivers, but that more focused and coordinated work is required to make this a uniform goal across teacher preparation programs.
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Kaivanpanah, Shiva, Sayyed Mohammad Alavi, Ian Bruce, and S. Yahya Hejazi. "EAP in the expanding circle: Exploring the knowledge base, practices, and challenges of Iranian EAP practitioners." Journal of English for Academic Purposes 50 (March 2021): 100971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2021.100971.
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Araeva, Lyudmila, and Stanislav Li. "The Method of the Propositional Frame Modeling in Teaching a Foreign Language." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 1 (April 2019): 187–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.1.16.
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The article describes the method of the propositional frame modeling and its application in teaching a foreign language, including the languages of the indigenous minorities of Russia. The material of the frame "berry" offers guidelines for its use in the classroom for studying foreign languages. The use of this method in teaching foreign languages helps pupils to more accurately and more deeply understand the structural, substantive and functional patterns that dominate them, helps students develop language guessing based on word formation, which is a universal way of expanding their potential vocabulary. Derived and non-derivative words are built according to the same deep structural-logical schemes – propositional structures, on the basis of which propositions are created. Propositional structures have a universal nature for all natural languages, but they are implemented quite specifically in sentences in a given language under the influence of territory, climate, life experience, and established cultural traditions of a people. Recognition of propositional structures and propositions within the frames in the semantics of derivatives of the native language and a foreign language makes it possible to see what is common in the knowledge of the world of all nations and to reveal the unique "world" of the language.
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Salaberry, M. Rafael. "Expanding the Definition of Aspect in L2 Acquisition: Assessing Advanced Levels of Competence to Understand Aspectual Knowledge." Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 87 (June 23, 2021): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/clac.76709.
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In part due to the significant influence of Andersen's Lexical Aspect Hypothesis, research on the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect has focused primarily on the construct of aspect representative of the beginning and intermediate stages of acquisition. In the present article, I review the significance of two recent developments in the study of aspectual knowledge: the expansive view of recent research proposals (e.g., shifted effect of lexical aspect toward intermediate and advanced stages), and the focus on specific sub-constructs that provide a more precise target to assess ultimate attainment (e.g., iterativity versus habituality). I argue that the relevance of advanced stages of development of aspect is central to the analysis of L2 aspectual knowledge. To that effect, the objective of future studies needs to incorporate the explicit description of the connection between lexical aspect and viewpoint aspect
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Begby, Endre. "Lexical norms, language comprehension, and the epistemology of testimony." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 44, no. 3-4 (August 2014): 324–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2014.944814.
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It has recently been argued (for instance by Sanford Goldberg, expanding on earlier work by Tyler Burge) that public linguistic norms are implicated in the epistemology of testimony by way of underwriting the reliability of language comprehension. This paper argues that linguistic normativity, as such, makes no explanatory contribution to the epistemology of testimony, but instead emerges naturally out of a collective effort to maintain language as a reliable medium for the dissemination of knowledge. Consequently, the epistemologies of testimony and language comprehension are deeply intertwined from the start, and there is no room for grounding the one in terms of the other.
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MOHAMED, Amahdouk. "TERMINOLOGY AND STRATEGIES FOR GENERATING TERMS IN THE AMAZIGH LANGUAGE- ABOUT A UNIFIED AND STANDARDIZED AMAZIGH LANGUAGE-." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 05 (June 1, 2021): 124–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.5-3.13.
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It is self-evident to say : there is no mobility of language without the kinetic of the term because it is the backbone of scientific language and the mainstay of its technical and procedural concepts. And as the sciences, arts, and technologies were constantly developing and expanding, their idiomatic structures were constantly changing and changing ; Scientific knowledge is always changing, and its change takes a kind of "accumulation", by adding the new to the old, and then the scope of knowledge is constantly expanding. If many thinkers accept the parallel between language and thought, it may happen that the linguistic development does not keep pace with the intellectual development, so the terminology will have to generate special terms to name the new concepts. The term, then, is an ancient and modern topic; It is archaic as long as it dates back to the beginnings of the formation of culture represented in original sciences for which there was a need to create a formal conceptual apparatus of its own, and it is a modern topic, because the need for the term has become more urgent in all types of contemporary thought, especially in the Amazigh linguistic thought, which He found himself suddenly in front of a scientific civilization invading him with its sciences, techniques and literature, and inviting him to consolidate his terminological structure, so that he would be at the level of the current challenges and keep pace with the many transformations taking place in the global intellectual arena. And then this study seeks, through exhuming some of all the global idiomatic generation strategies as a result of the idiomatic generation, to contribute to the workshops of standardizing the Amazigh language and its standardization, by preparing the ground for the enrichment of the various archaic and semantic fields. It has a wide production capacity and a great creative capacity in the process of generating terms, and it can sort new Amazigh linguistic units at a level of great accuracy and clarity.
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Geng, Ziyi, and John Murphy. "The knowledge base of Chinese as a second language teaching in K-12 settings." Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報). The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA 53, no. 3 (December 31, 2018): 295–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/csl.17032.gen.
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Abstract The field of teaching Chinese as a second language (CSL) is expanding and growing in importance worldwide. Related fields, such as Chinese language pedagogy, language policy, and the acquisition of Chinese as a second language, are attracting increased attention in research. However, research into K-12 CSL teacher cognition (what teachers know, think, and believe) has been very limited. It has been reported that more understanding of language teacher cognition has significant impacts on the development of teacher training and professional development programs (Borg, 2015; Kubanyiova & Feryok, 2015). Many aspects of CSL teacher cognition are underexplored when compared with language teacher cognition research in general and K-12 language teacher cognition research specifically. This article reviews current theoretical and empirical research into language teacher cognition with a particular focus on existing studies in the field of CSL teaching in the context of K-12 education. The purposes of the review article are (1) to document the current knowledge base of CSL teaching, and (2) to discuss current gaps in and future directions of teacher cognition research in this area. It first discusses general theories and research concerning second language teacher cognition within current research paradigms, and then provides a review of CSL teacher cognition research. Finally, it reviews pressing issues and suggests directions for future research in K-12 Chinese teacher cognition.
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Angelovska, Tanja. "Beyond instructed L2 grammar acquisition: Theoretical insights and pedagogical considerations about the role of prior language knowledge." Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 7, no. 3 (September 15, 2017): 397–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2017.7.3.3.
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The prior language knowledge of learners for whom the target language is not the first foreign language poses a different starting learning situation that should merit pedagogical attention. The present paper seeks to contribute to the question of which pedagogical considerations can be made in regard to the role of prior language knowledge beyond instructed L2 grammar acquisition. Moreover, it fills a significant gap expanding the limited existing pedagogical options that instructors have at their disposal when it comes to teaching in classrooms where one foreign language is simultaneously chronologically first to some and second to others. Starting with (combinations of) existing theoretical accounts and associated pedagogical aspects (such as explicit information, negative evidence, metalinguistic explanations, grammar consciousness raising, and input enhancement), a recently developed method (Hahn & Angelovska, 2017) is discussed. The method acknowledges equally the three phases of input, practice and output and is applicable in instructed L2 grammar acquisition and beyond.
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Nguyen, Long H. B., Viet H. Pham, and Dien Dinh. "Improving Neural Machine Translation with AMR Semantic Graphs." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2021 (July 8, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9939389.
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The Seq2Seq model and its variants (ConvSeq2Seq and Transformer) emerge as a promising novel solution to the machine translation problem. However, these models only focus on exploiting knowledge from bilingual sentences without paying much attention to utilizing external linguistic knowledge sources such as semantic representations. Not only do semantic representations can help preserve meaning but they also minimize the data sparsity problem. However, to date, semantic information remains rarely integrated into machine translation models. In this study, we examine the effect of abstract meaning representation (AMR) semantic graphs in different machine translation models. Experimental results on the IWSLT15 English-Vietnamese dataset have proven the efficiency of the proposed model, expanding the use of external language knowledge sources to significantly improve the performance of machine translation models, especially in the application of low-resource language pairs.
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Fahmi Aajami, Raghad. "A Cognitive Linguistics Study of the Conceptual Derivation of Word Meaning." Arab World English Journal 11, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 223–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol11no4.15.
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To maintain understanding, usage, and interrelations of English vocabularies by Iraqi second language learners (L2) is a challenging mission. In the current study, the cognitive linguistic theory of domains by Langacker (1987) is adopted to provide new horizons in learning vocabulary and qualify Iraqi students with a deep knowledge analysis of the meanings of lexical concepts. This paper aims to test the validity of expanding the English language vocabulary for second language learners from Iraq through domains theory. It also attempts to find how the domains theory supports L2 learners in identifying meanings related to lexical concepts. Accordingly, an experimental study is conducted on fifty-eight university students of the second year level from the University of Baghdad, Iraq. The pre and post-tests are analyzed by using the Editor for the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results show the following: First, a progression of more than (0.05≤) is discovered in terms of students' understanding of the interrelationships between lexical concepts. Second, a new vision is dealt with to connect lexical concepts with their meanings according to the focus of the speakers using Langacker's theory. Third, domains theory (profile/ base organization, active zone, and the perceptual basis for knowledge representation) has proven effective in expanding Iraqi students' treatment and perception of semantic domains of English lexical concepts precisely.
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Oranje, Jo, and Lisa F. Smith. "Language teacher cognitions and intercultural language teaching: The New Zealand perspective." Language Teaching Research 22, no. 3 (February 13, 2017): 310–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362168817691319.
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The New Zealand school curriculum was last revised in 2007, at which time a new emphasis was placed on culture in language teaching. The practice of intercultural language teaching is implicit in the curriculum document and explicit in the curriculum guide, which features a set of principles for intercultural communicative language teaching (iCLT). This article presents a study on the extent to which New Zealand language teachers’ beliefs and practices are aligned with intercultural language teaching (ILT). A questionnaire administered to New Zealand language teachers included a number of items used in a seminal seven-nation comparative study conducted by Lies Sercu and her colleagues, as well as other items developed from relevant literature. Expanding on previous studies’ use of item-by-item analyses, multi-item scales to measure alignment of New Zealand teacher’s beliefs and practices with ILT were developed, which yielded good internal reliabilities. The findings revealed an apparent mismatch between beliefs and practices, with teachers being favourably disposed towards ILT but not practising the approach in their classrooms. Interpretation of the data using concepts from teacher cognition research suggested that the differences represented tensions between teachers’ abstract, theoretical beliefs and their concrete, practical beliefs. We argue that supporting teachers’ applied knowledge of developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) will allow them to recognize that those beliefs need not be discordant.
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Xie, Yuan, Jiawei Ren, and Ji Xu. "Underwater-art: Expanding information perspectives with text templates for underwater acoustic target recognition." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152, no. 5 (November 2022): 2641–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0015053.
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Underwater acoustic target recognition is an intractable task due to the complex acoustic source characteristics and sound propagation patterns. Limited by insufficient data and narrow information perspective, recognition models based on deep learning seem far from satisfactory in practical underwater scenarios. Although underwater acoustic signals are severely influenced by distance, channel depth, or other factors, annotations of relevant information are often nonuniform, incomplete, and hard to use. In this work, the proposal is to implement underwater acoustic recognition based on templates made up of rich relevant information (UART). The templates are designed to integrate relevant information from different perspectives into descriptive natural language. UART adopts an audio-spectrogram-text trimodal contrastive learning framework, which endows UART with the ability to guide the learning of acoustic representations by descriptive natural language. These experiments reveal that UART has better recognition capability and generalization performance than traditional paradigms. Furthermore, the pretrained UART model could provide superior prior knowledge for the recognition model in the scenario without any auxiliary annotation.
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Panev, Violeta, and Aneta Barakoska. "THE NEED OF STRENGTHENING THE PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCES IN TEACHING FROM THE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE." International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education 3, no. 1 (June 20, 2015): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/2334-8496-2015-3-1-43-50.
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The traditional concept of the teaching staff continually is expanding and changing not only in the content but in the methodology and in the forms of learning as well because of the permanent change of the social conditions and the advancement of the science and technology. The teacher is a mediator of the knowledge and a key person who realizes the reforms and the teaching processes into practice and that is why the present and the future requires from the teacher qualified, expert and fundamental pedagogical knowledge .The competences and the skills as a changeable category mainly recognized and focused on the enrichment and the personal development of someone who learns, besides the initial education implies flexibility as well. Even more it implies improvement of the skills and the knowledge according to the given time frame periods and life conditions by the science and the technology development. During the teachers’ initial education there is a need of expanding their pedagogical skills and competences in order the pedagogical function to be fulfilled in a modern world using the foreign language in the teaching process as a tool for an entry to new resources and innovative techniques of studying.In the paper there is a presentation of a short comparison of the teachers’ competences in the English linguistic speaking areas and in Macedonia through comparing the educational programs of the higher faculty institutions and colleges.We will present their attitudes and opinions in terms of the level of the acquired competences in the initial education. The results are to be used in the professional improvement of the teaching competences of the English language and other subject teachers during their initial education. The research implemented with the teachers in the schools led to the conclusion that there is an immense need of expanding the teachers’ competences during their initial education.
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Rao, Yongsheng, Lanxing Xie, Hao Guan, Jing Li, and Qixin Zhou. "A Method for Expanding Predicates and Rules in Automated Geometry Reasoning System." Mathematics 10, no. 7 (April 4, 2022): 1177. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math10071177.
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Predicates and rules are usually enclosed as built-in functions in automated geometry reasoning systems, meaning users cannot add any predicate or rule, thus resulting in a limited reasoning capability of the systems. A method for expanding predicates and rules in automated geometry reasoning systems is, thus, proposed. Specifically, predicate and rule descriptions are transformed to knowledge trees and forests based on formal representations of geometric knowledge, and executable codes are dynamically and automatically generated by using “code templates”. Thus, a transformation from controlled natural language descriptions to mechanization algorithms is completed, and finally, the dynamic expansion of predicates and rules in the reasoning system is achieved. Moreover, the method has been implemented in an automated geometry reasoning system for Chinese college entrance examination questions, and the practicality and effectiveness of the method were tested. In conclusion, the enclosed setting, which is a shortcoming of traditional reasoning systems, is avoided, the user-defined dynamic expansion of predicates and rules is realized, the application scope of the reasoning system is extended, and the reasoning capability is improved.
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Parra, Maria Luisa. "Expanding Language and Cultural Competence in Advanced Heritage- and Foreign-Language Learners through Community Engagement and Work with the Arts." Heritage Language Journal 10, no. 2 (September 30, 2013): 253–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.46538/hlj.10.2.7.
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The purpose of this article is to describe the methodology and pedagogical practices of an advanced language course, Spanish and the Community,that addresses the strengths and needs of both Spanish heritage language learners and foreign language learners in classrooms that contain both populations, i.e., in mixed classrooms. Focused on the Latino experience in the United States, the course’s main goals are to advance translingual competence, transcultural critical thinking, and social consciousness in both groups of students. Three effective and interrelated pedagogical approaches are proposed: (a) community service as a vehicle for social engagement with the Latino community; (b) the multiliteracies approach (New London Group,1996), with emphasis on work with art; and (c) border and critical pedagogy drawn from several authors in the heritage language field (Aparicio, 1997; Correa, 2011; Ducar, 2008; Irwin, 1996; Leeman, 2005; Leeman &Rabin, 2001; Martínez &Schwartz, 2012) and from Henry Giroux and Paulo Freire’s work. The effectiveness of this combined approach is demonstrated in students’ final art projects, in which they: (a) critically reflect on key issues related to the Latino community; (b) integrate knowledge about the Latino experience with their own personal story; (c) become aware of their relationship to the Latino community; and (d) express their ideas about their creative artifact in elaborated written texts in Spanish (the project’s written component).
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KOGUT, PAUL, STEPHEN CRANEFIELD, LEWIS HART, MARK DUTRA, KENNETH BACLAWSKI, MIECZYSLAW KOKAR, and JEFFREY SMITH. "UML for ontology development." Knowledge Engineering Review 17, no. 1 (March 2002): 61–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269888902000358.
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Ontologies are becoming increasingly important because they provide the critical semantic foundation for many rapidly expanding technologies such as software agents, e-commerce and knowledge management (McGuinness, 2002). The Unified Modelling Language (UML)1 has been widely adopted by the software engineering community and its scope is broadening to include more diverse modelling tasks. This paper discusses the recent convergence of UML and ontologies and suggests some possible future directions.
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Kuznetsova, O., and V. Zlatnikov. "APPROACHES AND EFFECTIVE METHODS OF INSTRUCTION IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES." Visnyk Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Military-Special Sciences, no. 1 (45) (2021): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/728-2217.2021.45.17-20.
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At the present stage of expanding international contacts in various fields of activity for students it is becoming increasinglyimportant to expand their knowledge of languages outside of everyday foreign language (English). Learning foreign languages hasa number of benefits, including facilitating effective communication and building partnerships, business and military relationships with people from other countries/cultures. Since there are a number of factors that affect the effective acquisition of a foreign language in the context of bilin gualism, modern methods of teaching foreign languages have their own characteristics, considering the target areas and standards. There are many approaches to foreign language teaching developed at the end of the last centurythat have become widely used in teaching foreign languages for special purposes in higher education at the present stage of learning. The range of teaching methods varies depending on which aspects of language acquisition they emphasize – from teaching grammar to the lexicographic component of modern English-language culture of business and professional communication, which are seen as an element of communication skills of young military and civilian professionals [1]. As there is a wide range of different approaches and methods of teaching a foreign language for professional purposes used in lessons, the question will be whether there is evidence that some methods are more effective in acquiring and maintaining acquired skills. The article presents practical recommendations for motivating students to free oral/written communication in a foreign language, taking into account professional needs; the sequence of stages at which new programs for studying a foreign language of special purpose are logically executed, and also offers concerning a vocabulary is provided. The article evaluates and analyzes the latest trends in the methodology of teaching foreign languages, which provides a basis for effective study of a foreign language for professional purposes, taking into account the communicative orientation military, business and professional communication.
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Shooshtari, Zohre G., Anahita Bordbar, and Reza Banari. "Pragmatic Knowledge and Its Reflection in ESP Textbooks: The Case of Unauthentic Textbooks." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 7, no. 8 (August 1, 2017): 701. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0708.14.
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Textbooks play a crucial role in language teaching particularly in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms since they are considered as an important and primary source of linguistic input. EFL textbooks are expected to develop EFL students’ knowledge, no difference in linguistic or pragmatic competences (Gholami & Mahboobrezaei, 2011). As some scholars believed pragmatics is the fifth skill in language learning, then, it is essential to incorporate it like an integral component of EFL textbooks. However, there exists little knowledge on how well pragmatic perspectives of language are taken into consideration in expanding EFL textbooks generally and Iranian English for specific purposes (ESP) textbooks particularly. In fact, ESP textbooks are written by non-native authors and are considered as unauthentic textbooks. This study, therefore, attempted to explore pragmatic knowledge incorporation into ESP textbooks that have been published for computer engineers by SAMT publication as university textbooks. This study was also an attempt to investigate the frequency and rate of ‘politeness principle’ and ‘irony principle’ from the subcategories of inter-personal rhetoric as the umbrella term in two textbooks in the field of psychology. Book A was an authentic book written by natives for native speakers; however, book B was written by Iranians writers for Iranian university students (SAMT book). This paper then presented some results abstracted from the whole research project. EFL teachers and researchers whose professional and academic interests lie in syllabus design and ESP field may benefit from the findings of the study.
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Köksal, Fatma Nazlı, and Ümit İnatçı. "Visual rhetoric based on triadic approach: Intellectual knowledge, visual representation and aesthetics as modality." Semiotica 2020, no. 233 (March 26, 2020): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0075.
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AbstractThe aim of the present study is to evaluate Sonja Foss’s Rhetorical Schema for the Evaluation of Visual Imagery (1994) as well as reflect upon several points for further consideration; and finally suggest a renewed triadic approach as a method for analyzing art-relevant visual imagery. The triadic approach to be discussed assumes three correlative layers: the intellectual knowledge, function of the artistic content as the visual representational component, and aesthetics as modality. This study will include the analysis of a print advertisement that used an artwork as its content of visual rhetoric, and this will inform further discussions on the proposed approach. The contribution of this renewed triadic approached to the field of visual rhetoric has the advantage of expanding and possibly improving rhetorical analysis methods of visual imagery.
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Schissel, Jamie L., and Martha Reyes. "Preparing to teach emergent bilinguals." Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices 1, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 290–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jmtp.17669.
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Our ethnographic action research case study addresses the unique concerns that arise when expanding bilingual education methods within teacher education for non-ESL preservice teachers concerning ideological and practice-based shifts in pedagogy. The conceptual framework connects language ideologies and pedagogical practices. The qualitative analyses of three key assignments document preservice teachers’ ideological leanings as tending toward heteroglossia, tending toward monoglossia, or ideologies in flux. Our findings illustrate the attempts by preservice teachers to engage in practices along continua of heteroglossic and monoglossic language ideologies and the importance of defining concrete practices that value bilingual community knowledge.
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Sadovets, Olesia. "The Relevance of Applied Linguistics in Relation to Language and Communication Studies: A Worldwide Overview." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 9, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rpp-2019-0026.
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Abstract The paper outlines the peculiarities of Applied Linguistics as a branch of science and specialty provided by universities worldwide. Its scope, relevance in modern labour market and immediate relation to communication and language studies have been analyzed. Its advantages as a flourishing educational program for tertiary education and as an occupation in modern digital world with diverse realms of communication and language application have been substantiated. A wide range of activities pressuposed by Applied Linguistics study have been outlined: researching language in classrooms (classroom-based research); work with different kinds of written and spoken texts (corpus linguistics); approaching language learning (learner autonomy); testing and assessment of language learning; expanding vocabulary (including multiword expressions); dictionary making; interpretation and translation; studies of bilingualism and multilingualism. It has been determined that five most important concepts are basic for understanding the relation of Applied Linguistics to language and communication studies: Functional Linguistics, Language and its Application, Communicative Competence; Cognitive Discourse Analysis, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Contemporary Discourse Analysis; Barriers in Specialized Translation fields and their overcoming (by means of technology); Linguistics and Culture; Language hierarchy, authority, policy, and planning. Applied Linguistics program in tertiary education provides students with necessary studies in relation to language and communication in terms of language communication, its components, conditions of successful communication and cooperation; language etiquette; speech codes, their switching and mixing; speech acts and their types; context of culture, situation and co-texts; assembling and working with corpora; researching collocations and units of meaning. Undergoing the program of Applied Linguistics in tertiary education students can broaden knowledge of linguistics and language; deal with contemporary issues concerning the diversity of languages and cultures in societies; learn and teach foreign languages; eliminate language and communication gaps between people of different cultures; enhance the development of languages and communication skills.
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Savitri, Ayu Ida, and Wiwiek Sundari. "Developing Self-Learning Habit and Building Self Confidence by Integrating TBLT in Listening and Speaking Activities." PAROLE: Journal of Linguistics and Education 11, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/parole.v11i1.10-20.
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A common problem related to Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL) in an expanding circle country like Indonesia is students were accustomed to passively follow what the teacher told them to do. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is an effective method to let students develop their knowledge and creativity by learning the materials with their peers. It develops students’ self-learning habit that is beneficial for them to expand their knowledge, improve their competence and build their self-confidence as they were proud of their self-achievement. This research shows the integration of TBLT into listening and speaking class for second-grade students of State Vocational Senior Highschool, Central Java, majoring in electrical power engineering to fulfill their need as a technician with certain adaptations to suit the custom without decreasing its function and effectiveness
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Walldén, Robert, and Pia Nygård Larsson. "“Can you take a wild guess?” Using images and expanding knowledge through interaction in the teaching and learning of history." Linguistics and Education 65 (October 2021): 100960. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2021.100960.
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Sulaiman, Suraiya. "LITERATURE AND HUMAN VALUES: AN EXPERIENCE FROM AN EFL CLASSROOM AT PSU, PATTANI." UAD TEFL International Conference 1 (November 20, 2017): 476. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/utic.v1.203.2017.
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Being a rich source of language and culture, literature has been an ideal tool for the study of a language. As literature offers a bountiful and extremely varied body of written material that deals with enduring human issues, it facilitates in enhancing students’ language proficiency as well as expanding their knowledge horizon. Accordingly, literature seems to provide answers for the question posed by the 4th UAD TEFL International Conference: how to teach English in order to boost students’ language proficiency while empowering them with knowledge, skills and attitude in endorsing sustainable development and promoting global awareness. In this article I will share my experience from my literature class at PSU, where I deal with the concerned question. I use two main literary works, A Street Cat Named Bob (2012), a biography by James Bowen and The Kite Runner (2003), a novel by Khaled Hosseini, to teach my students about human values such as love, loyalty, courage and social justice. At the same time, I introduce them to the world’s current issues such as diaspora, immigration, war and the idea of multicultural society.
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Liu, Qi, Yaoyi Xu, Peng Zhan, Xin Li, and Qike Wu. "Realization of A Knowledge-based Intelligent System for Power Dispatching Plan Management." E3S Web of Conferences 182 (2020): 02004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202018202004.
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With the expanding of power grid scale in Chinese metropolis, the task intensity of power dispatchers increases rapidly in regulation of the power system operation structure and states to deal with everyday scheduled maintenance. In this paper, we propose a knowledge-based intelligent system developed to deal with daily management of the power dispatching plans. The system will analyse all the operation state changing tasks arranged for the next day and group the plans according to their association. It will automatically check the security of each power dispatching plan and generate the corresponding dispatching-order tickets. The proposed system builds up power grid ontology knowledge and first-order logic rules and integrates techniques of knowledge reasoning, natural language understanding and network topology analysis. Application shows that it can effectively realize the day-ahead power dispatching plan management (PDPM) instead of the human dispatchers.
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Beykont, Zeynep F. "‘Why didn’t they teach us any of this before?’." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 35, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 156–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.35.2.02bey.
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This article examines youth assessment of the quality and success of languages provision. The discussion draws on data collected from students and graduates of Victoria’s 16 secondary Turkish programs in large-scale surveys (n=858) and follow-up interviews (n=177). Surveys revealed that upper secondary Turkish classrooms serve predominantly Australian-born Turkish students. Nine out of ten respondents rated their English language and literacy skills considerably higher than Turkish despite regular Turkish exposure beyond school, an average of four years of Turkish study, and a positive orientation toward Turkish maintenance in Australia. Thematic interview analyses indicated that informants found classes beneficial in expanding contexts and purposes of Turkish use, improving Turkish fluency and understanding, broadening cultural knowledge, deepening communication with family, creating a sense of belonging to the larger Turkish community, and helping students prepare for the comprehensive language exam. Across all sites, student motivation and learning were adversely affected by increasingly heterogeneous class composition and a lack of a cohesive Turkish-as-a-second-language curriculum. Youth recommendations included redesigning the curriculum to teach Turkish language and literacy skills systematically, emphasizing literacy development throughout the program, parallel teaching of Turkish and English writing styles, enhancing professional development, improving school outreach, and establishing prerequisites to prolong student participation.
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Suima, Iryna. "DEVELOPMENT OF SPEAKING SKILLS WHILE LEARNING UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE." Theory and Practice of Teaching Ukrainian as a Foreign Language, no. 16 (October 6, 2022): 128–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/ufl.2022.16.3728.
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The study of foreign languages in modern society becomes an integral part of the professional training of specialists of various fields of activity, and their further career growth may largely depend on the degree of their language training. Studying the Ukrainian language as a foreign one contributes to the development of communicative competence, forms the student’s ability to use it as means of communication. At the center of the educational process for foreign students should be activities aimed at developing knowledge and communication skills in the Ukrainian language in a professional context. Its purpose is the formation and improvement of communication skills and abilities of students studying the Ukrainian language, that is, the ability to communicate using a foreign language in various situations in the process of professional interaction with other communication participants. In the learning process, it is possible to take some tasks that ensure the formation and improvement of professional communication in a foreign language: actualization of knowledge of lexical units and grammatical rules; formation of the ability to choose and use adequate language norms depending on the purpose and situation of communication; improving the ability to understand different types of communicative situations, as well as to build coherent and logical utterances; development of abilities to choose verbal and non–verbal means in case of communication failure; expanding knowledge about the socio–cultural features of the representatives of the countries of the language being studied, their traditions and norms of language behavior, as well as the formation of the ability to understand and adequately use them in the process of communication, while keeping student’s own culture. It is necessary to emphasize the special relevance of business communication in the orientation of preparation for personal and professional development of the student. At the same time, language information is the most reliable and perfect social means of communication and information acquisition, which serves as an exchange of thoughts and feelings and at the same time expresses the meaning of social relations. Therefore, the motivation of communicative orientation is one of the most important means of increasing the effectiveness of students’ foreign language learning. Key words: speech activity, dialogue, monologue, communicative approach, communicative task, initiating replica, replica–reaction.
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Fridman, Clara, and Natalia Meir. "A Portrait of Lexical Knowledge among Adult Hebrew Heritage Speakers Dominant in American English: Evidence from Naming and Narrative Tasks." Languages 8, no. 1 (January 20, 2023): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8010036.
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While the field of heritage language (HL) bilingualism has grown substantially in recent years, no studies have considered heritage Hebrew speakers dominant in American English. Expanding HL studies to new language pairs is crucial to understand the generalizability of prior findings across diverse linguistic contexts. In the current study, we assess 40 adult participants (16 M, 24 F) and present an overview of their lexical abilities, as derived from a quantitative and qualitative analysis of performance on the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) and a narrative elicitation task. We consider target accuracy, types of non-target responses, and cross-linguistic influence in the form of code-switching and calquing. Participants’ non-target responses indicated a strong grasp of Hebrew root-pattern word formation and creativity in the face of lexical gaps. Code-switching and calquing patterns in the narratives suggest that the dominant English is the clear framing language, from which speakers draw resources directly or indirectly. Although this linguistic blending leads to innovative lexical formations that would not be found in standard monolingual speech, the speakers’ overall message is still understandable. We conclude that heritage Hebrew speakers are able to clearly communicate complex thoughts in their HL while relying on their dominant language to fill lexical gaps.
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Dudzik, Agnieszka, and Agnieszka Dzięcioł-Pędich. "Online tools for individual study of specialised vocabulary – selected challenges." Linguodidactica 26 (2022): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/lingdid.2022.26.03.
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The acquisition of lexis is an important part of language learning. It is also a vital component of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) education, as knowledge of specialised vocabulary is considered integral to success in occupation-specific communicative activities. Expanding professional lexis is essential to help ESP learners understand the language and concepts of their academic or professional discipline and achieve specific communication goals. This paper aims to discuss selected challenges of using online tools (which were subjected to a qualitative analysis) to develop specialised lexis at the tertiary level. An outline of difficulties in professional vocabulary learning and a review of the main characteristics of teaching ESP are also included.
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Weber, Rose-Marie. "Literacy in the U. S." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 12 (March 1991): 172–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026719050000221x.
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In recent years the term “literacy” has rapidly expanded its space in the lexicon. Only a short time ago it was an abstract and rarely used noun, usually referring to the state of communities or societies. It was not in the vocabulary of American schooling, along with reading, writing, language arts, or English. The related terms literate and illiterate, if applied to individuals, were limited to adults and to either highly refined or very rudimentary knowledge of written language. Now the word literacy has been extended on the American scene to express knowledge of other domains in such phrases as computer literacy and scientific literacy, and it is even being pluralized as literacies. It is also being used more and more, along with literate (but not illiterate), as an over-arching term for knowledge and activities that were until recently designated separately as reading and writing in discussions of theory, research, and practice. This use of the term reflects a more unified, holistic view of reading and writing as linguistic enterprises situated in social and intellectual contexts, a view that has been expanding with marked consequences.
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Koroleva, Inna A. "LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE RUSSIAN-BELARUSIAN BORDERLANDS." ISSUES OF ETHNOPOLITICS, no. 2 (2020): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2658-7041-2020-2-39-53.
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In the light of modern processes of globalization, the importance and significance of cross-border cooperation between the border regions of Russia and the Republic of Belarus in various fields: economic, political, administrative and, of course, socio-cultural, is quite obvious. Particular attention should be paid to the language policy in the border zone, in particular – to the language processes in the educational environment that form and socialize the personality of a young person, schoolchildren and student. Using the example of the implementation of language policy in a separate region, the Smolensk-Vitebsk borderland (the Smolensk region borders the Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus for more than 200 km), it is shown how the study of sociocultural realities in the territories of contacting languages, Russian and Belarusian, can be practically implemented in educational practice, which contributes to the formation of knowledge of the interaction of different national languages, Russian and Belarusian, among students of schools and universities of the borderlands. It has been proved that there are both processes of cultural globalization and self-identification of ethnic communities in the borderlands. It is considered how the correct language policy in the educational environment helps to solve the problem of the growing generation’s awareness of cultural dialogue in the bilingual space, makes it possible to develop national self-identification while simultaneously perceiving the value attitude towards the Russian language. The attention is focused on the role of the process of cooperation in the field of education. It has been proven that the correct implementation of the language policy strengthens the relationship between Russia and the Republic of Belarus, allows expanding contacts in the professional educational and scientific environment. It is assumed that the further introduction of the socio-cultural component into the educational practice of the borderlands will expand the possibilities of dialogue between the native languages – Russian and Belarusian.
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Koirala, Deepak, and Navin Duwadi. "NEPALESE NETWORKING BUSINESS STARTUPS AND INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION." Nepalese Journal of Management Science and Research 5, no. 1 (May 20, 2022): 139–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.53056/njmsr-2022.5.1.008.
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The research aims to identify the business networking practices used by Nepalese startups on international expansion. It encompasses the factor that stop the Nepalese startup to become global. The research provides the answer to specific business strategies adopted by the Nepalese startups to expand themselves in the international market. The research methodology used in this study is qualitative research. The findings of this research show that people are optimistic towards business networking practices that Nepalese startup used when expanding their business in the international market and challenge faced by Nepalese startup during expansion. This study shows specific business strategies applied by and current status of Nepalese startups. Similarly, use of local knowledge, skills, IP, innovation as well as other things are major factors that are responsible for expanding international business network. The Startups should focus on collaboration as well as joint venturing strategy while expanding their business through international business network. The additional factors like funding, vision, language, culture & tradition, international trade policy, etc. are responsible for international business network.
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Таnsykbayevа, B., and G. Каlambаeva. "REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH CULTURE." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 71, no. 1 (April 23, 2020): 640–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-1.1728-7804.108.
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Expanding the scope of the native language is a problem that requires constant attention. Knowledge of the language culture, continuous enrichment of the individual's vocabulary, the ability to use the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Kazakh people-should be required from every person who studies the Kazakh language. The beginning of the path to language culture is the ability to speak culturally and oratory. The article talks about the role of oratory in life, the importance of conscious selection of language tools in the formation of speech culture among young people. It also considers ways to increase the expressiveness of speech, raises questions about the methods and ways of developing the culture of speech, the structure of speech ethics. Speaking about the reasons for non-compliance with speech culture, the authors indicate their elimination. They come to the conclusion that in order to improve the culture of speech skills, it is necessary to use the media of the language correctly.