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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"language resources"”.
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A Description of Monolingual English Teachers Appreciations of Student Language Repertoires in Hutterian Colony Schools
… English teachers’ understandings of the language repertoires of their students in a Hutterian colony context. The five participants deliver the provincial curriculum through the English language to Hutterian colony students who have the three languages of spoken Hutterisch, written High …
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What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms
… through practices in particular ways. Language and literacy practices in schools produce and re-produce certain things that count. In this dissertation I asked what counts as English and what practices were employed in varying contexts to validate what counted in a greater context. I …
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The Experiences of Non-Native English Speaking Teachers and Their Professional Identity Constructions in an ESL Context
… develop their English proficiency and classroom language resources through a language improvement component built in their curriculum. Another implication draws attention to the importance of institutional support for NNES teachers in TESOL teacher education programs. Two of the NNES teachers in …
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Breaking down barriers, building up communities : implementing project labor agreements with targeted hiring goals
… sources to explore the importance of contract language, resources, and relationships in the implementation of four project labor agreements that included targeted hiring goals. It identifies five potential hurdles to expanding access to jobs in the Trades, and evaluates the use and success of …
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The construction of a linguistic linked data framework for bilingual lexicographic resources
Little-known lexicographic resources can be of tremendous value to users once digitised. By extending the digitisation efforts for a lexicographic resource, converting the human readable digital object to a state that is also machine-readable, structured data can be created that is semantically …
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English Teachers and English Language Learners in Middle School Classrooms: Perspectives and Practices
… lags significantly behind that of their language-majority peers.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, opinions and practices of middle school language arts/reading teachers regarding the inclusion of ELL students and the support they receive in their classrooms. …
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Automating vocabulary tests and enriching online courses for language learners
… most of which are offered in the English language. However, although more people speak English as their second language than as their first, online course providers do not offer language assistance. Providing online learners with language resources would allow them to both learn about a …
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Automatic Detection of Nastiness and Early Signs of Cyberbullying Incidents on Social Media
… expand these methods and propose a Natural Language Processing system that constantly monitors online conversations, and triggers an alert when a possible case of cyberbullying is happening. We design a new evaluation framework, and show that our system is able to provide timely and accurate …
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Элементы яркой разговорной речи в прозе В. Шукшина
Russian language MPhil thesis; English title, "Elements of vivid colloquial speech in V. Shukshin's prose". [Also includes 16 page English language summary, first three paragraphs below]: Russian is one of the richest and most distinctive languages in the world. This is the result of its …
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Werkzeuge zur flachen Annotation von Transkriptionen gesprochener Sprache
… and maturing methodology for the annotation of language resources, is playing a prominent role in the fields of computational and corpus linguistics. While progress in the search for the right annotation model and format is undeniable, these results only sparsely become manifest in actual …
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FINE-GRAINED EMOTION DETECTION IN MICROBLOG TEXT
… in text is concerned with using natural language processing techniques to recognize emotions expressed in written discourse. Endowing computers with the ability to recognize emotions in a particular kind of text, microblogs, has important applications in sentiment analysis and affective …
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Designed to fail: evaluating grade 1-3 English first additional language textbooks as preparation for English medium grade 4 natural sciences and technology in South Africa
Despite official school language policies mandating English as the medium of instruction from Grade 4 onwards, nearly half of South Africa's English Language Learners (ELLs) are obtaining less than 50% in their final (matric) English examinations. These same students are writing all of their other …
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“When do I get to see the dog?”: The communicative environment during animal assisted speech therapy sessions for adults with acquired cognitive-communicative disorders
… Foundation Hospital (CFH), 2) to describe the language resources used by all participants in an Animal-Assisted ST session and to compare those patterns to a Traditional ST session, and 3) to trace the process and progress made by SLPs towards increasing their personal goals of independence, …
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Data-Efficient Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Pretrained Language Models
Bilingual dictionaries are essential language resources that play a crucial role in the development of modern multilingual and cross-lingual natural language processing (NLP) systems, particularly for resource-lean languages. Although there are 7,000+ languages spoken worldwide, existing bilingual …
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Advancing Language Equity and Sample Efficiency in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
… developed for English and several high-resource languages, resulting in a significant disparity between the speakers of the majority and minority languages. Equitable multilingual TOD systems should not only be accessible (able to converse with the users in their language) but also useful …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… African constitution recognises 11 official languages, of which isiXhosa is one. IsiXhosa belongs to the Nguni language family which also comprises of isiZulu, isiNdebele, and siSwati. IsiXhosa is mostly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. Those that regard isiXhosa as their …
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International languages in New Zealand secondary schools and universities: Coherence, consistency and transparency
… of the teaching and learning of international languages other than English in secondary schools and, to a more limited extent, in universities in New Zealand. The Introduction summarizes the aims and objectives of the research and outlines the research methods. Chapter 1 introduces the context …
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Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Bilingual Learners: Primary School Teachers’ Perspectives, Perceptions and Experiences.
… identified as using English as an Additional Language (EAL). Against the backdrop of rising linguistic diversity in English primary schools, where over 22% of pupils use EAL, the research critically examined the suitability of SSP and the statutory Year 1 Phonics Screening Check (PSC) for …
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STaRS.sys: designing and building a commonsense-knowledge enriched wordnet for therapeutic purposes
… investigates the possibility to exploit human language resources and knowledge extraction techniques to build STaRS.sys, a software system designed to support therapists in the rehabilitation of Italian anomic patients. After an introductory section reviewing classification, assessment, and …
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