Explaining employees’ reactions towards a cross-border merger:the role of English language fluency [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we focus on the role of language in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and explore how organization members’ language skills, or fluency, in the adopted lingua franca may impact their reactions to a merger.
Cornelissen, Joep P. +2 more
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines everyday International Baccalaureate Educator Certificate (IBEC) environments in Japanese higher education through a theoretical framework of whiteness. Exploring dissonances shaped by English and constructivism at two universities, I argue that communities challenge Anglo‐American and Euro‐American epistemologies imbued ...
Akira Shah
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The use of English as a Lingua Franca to overcome language barriers and raise the level of education in modern conditions [PDF]
, 2022 The present research considers the thesis about the determining role of English as a lingua franca. The purpose of the academic paper lies in establishing the features of teaching English as a lingua franca in educational university practices, as well ...
Konchovych, Kateryna +3 more
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Translation of Werner Heisenberg's Paper "Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" Zeitschrift für Physik 33, 1925, 879-893 into Czech language [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 To facilitate teaching of quantum mechanics on undergraduate and even advanced secondary school levels, we present an unabridged translation of the original German text of the famous Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough paper of 1925 into Czech language.
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Disagreement Strategies used by Speakers of English as a Lingua Franca in Business Meetings
, 2020 Numerous studies have attested to the consensus-orientation and cooperative nature of English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions. However, limited attention has been given to moments of disagreements in ELF communication, with most of the little ...
A. Alzahrani
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Lingua Custodia's participation at the WMT 2021 Machine Translation using Terminologies shared task [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper describes Lingua Custodia's submission to the WMT21 shared task on machine translation using terminologies. We consider three directions, namely English to French, Russian, and Chinese. We rely on a Transformer-based architecture as a building block, and we explore a method which introduces two main changes to the standard procedure to ...
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English as a lingua franca vs. interpreting: battleground or peaceful coexistence? [PDF]
, 2010 The article addresses the contentious issue of the spread of English as a lingua franca in a number of domains – a trend that is not viewed very favourably by many interpreting professionals.
Reithofer, Karin
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English as "Lingua Franca" and the Internationalization of Academe [PDF]
International Higher Education, 2015 English has become the major language of scientific communication, and to a lesser extent, teaching worldwide. Using data from a international study of the academic profession, this article discusses some of the themes, positive and negative, of the role of "global English.
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Drug and Alcohol Review, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Various services and mutual‐aid groups, such as SMART Recovery, provide support for substance use rehabilitation in Singapore. Despite this, substance use remains a growing public health concern with a large treatment gap. This suggests potential barriers to accessing substance use treatment unique to Singapore's sociocultural ...
Wan Jie Tan +5 more
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Defining a Lingua Franca to Open the Black Box of a Naïve Bayes Recommender [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Many AI systems have a black box nature that makes it difficult to understand how they make their recommendations. This can be unsettling, as the designer cannot be certain how the system will respond to novelty. To penetrate our Na\"ive Bayes recommender's black box, we first asked, what do we want to know from our system, and how can it be obtained ...
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