Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - General

This book covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to ambiguities and dependency on context and agents (humans or computational systems). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of computation, language, thought, mental states,...

This open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand.  Their collaborative aim was to develop students’ intercultural capability in the context of learning a new language. The school participants were typical of many in New Zealand’s pre-secondary sector; the teachers had limited language-teaching experience and limited prior knowledge of how to develop the intercultural dimension in their language classrooms, and the...

Dostojewskijs Beteiligung an einem Gesprächskreis, in dem frühsozialistische Ideen diskutiert wurden, hätte ihn fast das Leben gekostet. Nach seinen Sträflingsjahren wandelte sich der russische Autor zu einem erbitterten Gegner des westeuropäischen Sozialismus, in dem er gar den Antichristen zu erkennen glaubte. Dagegen predigte er einen christlich bestimmten russischen Sozialismus. Das Jahrbuch behandelt das Titelthema unter zwei Blickwinkeln: Einmal geht es darum, was verstand Dostojewskij selbst unter Sozialismus, und wie spiegelt sich dieses Verständnis in seinen Romanen wider....

This open access book provides teachers with approaches to strengthen reading comprehension instruction based on scientific research and evidence-based didactic principles. In this volume, the Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) framework is used to inform teachers about the skills and knowledge that students need to comprehend certain texts. The book gives practical guidance on how a teacher can help students to learn these skills, specifically, when teaching reading to multilingual students.  

Good practices from schools in five participating...

This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally. It illustrates the current state of multimodal composing and literacies, with an emphasis on English learners' language and literacy development. 

The book addresses issues concerning multilinguals' multimodal composing and reflects on what the nexus of multimodality, writing development, and multilingual education entails for future research. It provides research-driven and practice-oriented perspectives of...