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Flexibility and Interaction at a Distance: A Mixed-Model Environment For Language Learning [PDF]

, 2003
This article reports on the process of design and development of two language courses for university students at beginning levels of competence. Following a preliminary experience in a low-tech environment for distance language learning and teaching, and
Bouvet, Eric James, Strambi, Antonella
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Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The article examines incidental vocabulary acquisition, focusing on the differential impacts of input modalities—reading versus listening—on learning of single words and multi‐word expressions. Eighty‐eight university students of L2 Italian were assigned to one of the three groups: (a) reading half of an authentic Italian novel, (b) listening ...
Mahnaz Aliyar, Anna Siyanova‐Chanturia, Stephen Skalicky   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

Languages
Reception studies in audiovisual translation seek to explore how translation choices affect the audience’s comprehension, emotional engagement, enjoyment, and overall viewing experience of audiovisual materials.
Willian Moura
doaj   +1 more source

Reading speed in subtitling for hearing impaired children: an analysis in Spanish television [PDF]

, 2016
Reading speed is one of the essential parameters to consider when designing subtitles for a hearing impaired audience. Images, subtitles and spoken dialogue are the three sources of information in a subtitled audiovisual text.
Tamayo, Ana
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Imagining the Nation in the 21st Century

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how our imagining of the nation has evolved from the 1600s to this day. Reviewing the well‐known analysis of Benedict Anderson, this paper carries the argument further, investigating how our imagining of our national communities has changed alongside sociopolitical, economic and technological transformations.
Anna Triandafyllidou
wiley   +1 more source

Subtitling for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: Not Only Functionality but Art

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Subtitling practices for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have advanced significantly, addressing both opportunities and challenges in literacy development.
Ewa Domagała-Zyśk
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InCHORRRuS: Infant‐Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
In the InCHORRRuS (Infant‐directed (ID) Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure) framework, increased rhythmicity in ID speech and the beat‐based metrically structured rhythmicity in ID song naturally organize the multimodally redundant and repetitive cues in the caregiver's communicative signals ...
Camila Alviar, Warren Jones, Miriam Lense   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transition to online psychological support – Barriers, stereotypes and challenges from the perspective of service providers

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This qualitative study, which provides practical insights for the field, described the transition process of psychological service providers towards online care provision. We aimed to describe the process of professionals' adaptation to new methods of distant psychological care, including its main facilitating and complicating ...
Miroslav Charvát, Leona Jochmannová, Petra Zia Sluková, Lucie Viktorová   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating the Essentials Core Competencies Related to Health Literacy Into Undergraduate Curriculum: Tapping Traditional and Emerging Education Strategies

Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in healthcare systems regarding health literacy. Although involving individuals, families, and communities in healthcare decision‐making improves their outcomes, their ability to interpret information depends on attention to health literacy and readability of materials.
Karen L. Valcheff, Deidra S. Pennington, Sarah K. Keaton, Kimberly Ferren Carter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source