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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"learning language"”.
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Learning language through collaboration
… form-focused instruction on aspects of foreign-language learner’s spoken English, argument production, and attitude towards English use. Four freshman English classes (N=136) from a university in Taiwan participated in this quasi-experimental study. Two classes were randomly assigned to either …
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Learning Language with Multimodal Models
Language acquisition by children and machines is remarkable. Yet while children learn from hearing a relatively modest amount of language and by interacting with people and the environment around them, neural language models require far more data and supervision, struggle with generalizing to new …
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Persuasiveness of text messages generated by machine learning language model
… of our algorithm that applies a machine learning language model to convert the message to be memorable and persuasive. We designed an algorithm that takes an input sentence, and by changing the sentence to be more general in the syntax level, and more distinctive at the lexical level with …
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E-learning, language education and the role of writing : a case study
This case study of a Swiss adult-learning institution investigates changing literacy practices and skills in adult foreign language education with relation to e-Iearning and with reference to the role of writing. Aspects concerning autonomous learning, teaching presence, and factors influencing the …
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Learning Language and Culture outside the Classroom: Korean Study Abroad Students' Experience
… study examined seven Korean students' language and culture learning experiences in a study abroad context. The purpose of this study is to gain insight about the processes of students' social interactions and development of communicative competence outside the classroom. My …
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StoryScape : fun technology for supporting learning, language and social engagement through story craft
… I have sought to develop a more holistic learning technology around communication. The StoryScape platform connects web, mobile, and physical technologies through interactive stories, enabling fun and engaging learning through story creation and other activities. While the main focus of …
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The Smartpen as a Mediational Tool for Learning Language and Content Areas: The Case of English Learners in Mainstream Classrooms
… devices for supporting the instruction of second language (L2) learners is an emerging and rapidly growing area of inquiry. Previous research on mobile assisted language learning (MALL) has concentrated on the development of isolated linguistic skills through a common set of mobile technologies, …
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A Case Study of the Preventing Academic Failure Orton-Gillingham Approach With Five Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Using the Mediating Tool of Cued Speech
… from kindergarten to Grade 5, had additional learning, language, and socioeconomic challenges, and were mainstreamed in a public school district. Data were obtained in the fall, winter, and spring of one academic year from assessments (DRA, DIBELS, PAF), interviews with classroom teachers, and …
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How Parents, Teachers, Psychologists, and Educational Environments Influence Developmental Transitions of Preadolescent Twice-Exceptional Students
… and explicitly teaching social and emotional learning language all contribute to successful development transitions.</p>
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Christian Curricular Emphases and Academic Rigor in Fine Arts: A Mixed Methods Study
… course descriptions for integration of faith and learning language, then transformed them into quantitative data for analysis. The fourth and last phase performed a multivariate analysis of variance with covariates on all collected data.
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Neural techniques for modeling visually grounded speech
… Chapter 1, I provide a background on multimodal learning and motivate the need for further research in the area. In addition, I give an overview of Harwath et al. (2016)'s model, variants of which will be used throughout the rest of the thesis. In Chapter 2, I present a quantitative and …
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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
… and factual comprehension questions based on language-mixed prose. Language-mixed (i.e., codeswitched) prose varied in the number of foreign words presented in each sentence (i.e., 0, 1, 2, or 3 words per sentence). Results indicated that Monolinguals and Bilinguals' ability to translate …
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Structurally Motivated Deep Learning for Genome Scale Protein Interaction Prediction
… across species. We combine advances in neural language modeling and structurally-motivated design to develop D-SCRIPT, a deep learning model which is interpretable and generalizable to species with limited training data. We show that a D-SCRIPT model trained on 38,345 human PPIs enables …
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Yoghurts for fruit-time : a narrative study of language learning in the kindergarten
… teachers perceive their practices to support the language learning of young children. From a socio-cultural perspective, developing language competency at Kindergarten is a priority because of its pivotal role across all learning areas and the opportunity it creates for all children to add to …
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Gaining Proficiency in French Through Service Learning: An Action Research Project with Secondary French Students in California and Secondary Students in a French School in France
<p>Engaging in service learning at the high school level in a world language classroom is integral to gaining oral proficiency in the target language. Service learning helps students to see the practical application of the language and it increases student motivation. In many high schools, students …
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Teaching subjects as languages: academic English development in the multilingual post-primary classroom
… these research questions: 1. How can academic language development be integrated into mainstream curriculum lessons to the benefit of all pupils in a multilingual post-primary context? 2. What are pupils’ and teachers’ attitudes towards classroom interventions designed to integrate academic …
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Factors contributing to poor Matriculation performance at schools in uMkhanyakude District
… resources, lack of support by parents in their learning, poverty, not being sure about group studying, not having a good command of a teaching and learning language and not prac-tising it. They seemed afraid to talk about their teachers .The educators perceptions tallied with those of educators, …
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Harmony through disharmony in online communication : an investigation of rapport management in discussion forums from a perspective of situated learning
… in interpersonal relations in the context of language learning–related forums in two websites, Japan Reference and Reddit. In the intercultural contexts of these fora, the participants negotiate their beliefs and values about communication alongside learning language, which I suggest is a part …
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O skype como ferramenta de interacção e colaboração no ensino e aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras em teletandem
… como nova opção em CALLT (Computer Assisted Learning Language and Teaching), poderá ser um modo de ensino-aprendizagem. Recorrendo a aplicativos de Instant Messaging (Msn, Skype, ...) e às suas ferramentas de escrita, leitura, áudio e vídeo, procura-se, através de actividades de interacção, …
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The 'Who' and 'Where' of Events: Infants' Processing of Figures and Grounds in Events
Learning relational terms such as verbs and prepositions is fundamental to language development. To learn relational words, children must first dissect and process dynamic event components, and then uncover how the particular language they are learning encodes these constructs. Building on a new …
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