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Dimensions of Language Awareness of Multilingual Migrant Adolescents – A Means to Enhance Epistemic Diversity in the Classroom

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingualism is very prevalent in German schools. However, the German school system does little justice to this fact and persists in a monolingual habitus. This appears problematic not only in respect to educational equity, but it also undermines holistic approaches to learning.
Nora von Dewitz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internet: Culture Diversity and Unification [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Culture specifics of the Internet usage is analysed. The analysis done is a preliminary work for the application of the socio-historical theory of human mental development.
Voiskounsky, Alexander E.
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Self‐Consumption Translation: Exploring Interlingual Translation Within Multilingual (mainland) China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interlingual translation, as defined by Roman Jakobson, refers to the transfer of meaning between languages. However, this concept has often been conflated with linguistic shifts between distinct cultures and nation‐states. To challenge this misconception, I propose the concept of self‐consumption translation (SCT), a subfield of interlingual ...
Bilin (Belen) Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic Variation in Online Communities of Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We introduce a framework for quantifying semantic variation of common words in Communities of Practice and in sets of topic-related communities. We show that while some meaning shifts are shared across related communities, others are community-specific ...
Del Tredici, Marco, Fernández, Raquel
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The future of historical sociolinguistics? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Peer ...
Auer, Anita   +3 more
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Linguistic and Cultural Immersion of American Students in Spanish Universities: Implications for Higher Education and Study Abroad Programs

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Direct enrollment (DE) study abroad programs offer linguistic and cultural immersion by allowing students to enroll in coursework at partner universities worldwide. However, there is limited research on students’ perspectives of such programs and the necessary measures for success.
Jillian M. Pandor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investing in Game‐Based Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE): A Chinese‐Speaking Gaming Community

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
While the field of variationist sociolinguistics has advanced rapidly since Labov (1966), it remains the case that a socially informed theory of language change continues to be influenced by only very few languages, typically English and a handful other ...
Adkins   +84 more
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Co‐Authorship in Applied Linguistics Research: Patterns and Trends, 1991–2023

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been 18 years since Greene's featured article in Nature, The demise of the lone author. In that time, there have been enormous shifts in how educational research has been conducted, with a move towards greater teamworking, anecdotally evident from author bylines in published documents. This bibliometric study investigates patterns of co‐
William S. Pearson
wiley   +1 more source

Personalized Dialogue Generation with Diversified Traits

open access: yes, 2019
Endowing a dialogue system with particular personality traits is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, due to the challenge of embodying personality via language expression and the lack of large-scale persona-labeled dialogue data,
Chen, Guanyi   +4 more
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