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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Modern language"”.
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Portland, Maine : toward an essential modern language
… of a specific place, and scruples toward the modern era we live in.
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The stating of behavioral objectives for a college level modern language program
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
… it notoriously difficult to render into other languages, leading to claims that this genre is `untranslatable'. While this is patently untrue, any attempt to maintain the form of skaldic poetry, communicate the content, and, at the same time, convey its metonymic implications in translation …
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A tale of two courses: exploring the relationship between identity, modern language, and career aspirations of undergraduate students in language for specific purposes classrooms
This study concerns itself with how identity, modern language, and career aspirations function on a micro-level and macro-level as it pertains to the Trump administration. Through two language for specific purpose (LSP) classrooms, questions explore personal identity, Spanish major and minor …
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A statistical study of the contributions of certain Greek and Roman mythological terms to the modern English language
… music, literature, and other arts. However, the modern, questioning student is not entirely satisfied with this answer. A more practical appeal is made in this study of the contributions of mythology to modern language.</p>
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An Urban Monastery and Its Genius Loci
… religious persecution and infiltration of its language, culture and environment, the challenge of this program is to represent the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism in a modern language of architecture.
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Unicorns Are Not Real and Neither Are You: Peter S. Beagle's Postmodern Fairy Tale
… lacking a sense of reality through its mixing of modern language with a medieval, fantasy setting. However, the novel’s purposeful muddling of reality raises questions of ontology and the nature of storytelling/world-projection. The objective of this study is to not only to act as a sort of …
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StreamJIT : a commensal compiler for high-performance stream programming
… applications. On the other hand, domain-specific languages are rare despite the performance advantages of compilation. We believe the reason is the multiple orders-of-magnitude higher cost of building a compiler compared to building a library. We propose commensal compilation, a new strategy for …
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The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
… design in Beijing is by all means exploring the modern language appropriated in Chinese idioms, especially in significant public projects which are often sponsored by the government. In these projects, the cultural and social concerns intensively emerge together. Amidst these concerns, …
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The influence of morphological and lexical competences in the reading proficiency of fourth year students from modern languages major at the department of foreign languages of the University of El Salvador during the year 2014
English is a worldwide language and several researches have been done about this language. Many scholars have written books about English as a second language and books for teaching English but these investigations have been carried out in diverse countries with contexts totally different from the …
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Entrance=Eingang
… site are traditional elements of architectural language. If we continue to use these elements and transform them into our modern language, we provide another means for people to identify with a work of architecture. To find a way to transform or incorporate the old language into contemporary …
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The Effects of Context, Voice, and Vowelization on the Word Recognition Speed, Accuracy, and Comprehension of L2 Arabic Readers at Different
The present study focuses on the effects of context, grammatical voice (hereafter, voice), and vowelization on the word recognition of L2 Arabic readers at different proficiency levels. It examined the role of different context and voice conditions and different types (amounts) of vowelization …
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Filología reflexiva: Hacia una pedagogía “evaluadora”. Reflexión y evaluación del campo filológico español (1936-1968)
… role that Spanish scholars, inside Hispanic and Modern Language Departments, played in this renegotiation of a new and crucial sociopolitical mission for College Education. By focusing on the period between 1939 and 1968, a moment of sociopolitical instability and conservative literary and …
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Hal Lindsey's <i>The Late, Great Planet Earth</i> and the Rise of Popular Premillennialism in the 1970s
… Lindsey translated this complicated system into modern language and connected it with contemporary geopolitics in powerful ways which helped make LGPE incredibly popular and influential in the 1970s and beyond.</p> <p>This paper includes an introduction to some essential concepts and terms …
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Multimodal Approaches to Literacy and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University Level
<p>This double case study of language learners and teachers examines literacy events as described in subjects’ journals. In TESOL, a case typically “refers to a person, either a learner or a teacher” (TESOL.org, 2018), and in this thesis one case was a group of four English Language Institute Level …
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Literacy Revolution: How the New Tools of Communication Change the Stories We Tell
… As a result, the cultural authority of written language is changing along with the cultural memory that it preserves. I wanted to understand what our son might gain and lose as his reading and writing skills are slowly eclipsed by visual literacy. Human brains will continue to grow symbiotically …
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Eustache Deschamps' <i>"L'art de dictier"</i>
… Since it had never been translated into any modern language, <em>L'Art de dictier</em> has been translated here.</p>
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Inference-Time Learning Algorithms of Language Models
Modern language models (LMs) can perform complex tasks through in-context learning (ICL)—they can adapt to a task via examples provided in their input without any parameter updates. However, fundamental questions remain about when this adaptation works, what algorithms underlie it, and how to …
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Living Latin: Exploring a Communicative Approach to Latin Teaching Through a Sociocultural Perspective on Language Learning
… and pedagogical frameworks, this study draws on modern language learning theories and teaching practices and explores the application of Vygotskian sociocultural theory to learning events taking place under a communicative teaching approach. <br></br><br></br> Research methods were selected …
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Forecasting the success of environmental and sustainability activities in international development using language models
… combining classical statistical methods with modern language model techniques. Novel techniques were applied to improve forecasting skill, including using the reasoning and information-gathering abilities of large language models (LLMs) to improve forecasts, introducing LLM summaries of …
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