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Noisy-parallel and comparable corpora filtering methodology for the extraction of bi-lingual equivalent data at sentence level [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Text alignment and text quality are critical to the accuracy of Machine Translation (MT) systems, some NLP tools, and any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data.
Wołk, Krzysztof
core   +3 more sources

Local Milestones in Scholarly Publishing: Five Years of the BC TEAL Journal

open access: yesBC TEAL Journal, 2020
This editorial marks the fifth anniversary of the BC TEAL Journal. Remaining committed to free and open access scholarly publishing that draws connections to English as an additional language (EAL) teaching and learning in British Columbia, the journal ...
Scott Roy Douglas
doaj   +1 more source

Service-Learning: Boldly Going Where EAL Students Have Not Gone Before

open access: yesBC TEAL Journal, 2017
Service-learning is an experiential pedagogy which integrates curriculum and volunteer service through ongoing reflection. Research suggests that service-learning offers notable benefits for post-secondary English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) students.
Heather Wisla, Wendy Krauza, Jim Hu
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Cultural responses to pain in UK children of primary school age: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Pain-measurement tools are often criticized for not addressing the influence of culture and ethnicity on pain. This study examined how children who speak English as a primary or additional language discuss pain.
American Academy of Pediatrics: American Pain Society   +34 more
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Are Academic English Words Learned Incidentally? A Canadian Case Study

open access: yesBC TEAL Journal, 2020
This study at a Canadian university grew out of the need to know whether students acquired academic vocabulary incidentally through text exposure (extensive reading) in class.
Hilda Freimuth
doaj  

Building a Career in English: Users of English as an Additional Language in Academia in the Arabian Gulf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This study investigates how a group of 30 multilingual academics, all users of English as an additional language (EAL) working at a private university in Oman, acquired discourse community membership in their ...
Buckingham, L.
core   +1 more source

Pedagogical Strategies to Diminish Concepts of Language Privileging Among Pre-service Teachers

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2022
Pre-service teachers are simultaneously replacing the English Learner’s home language with a foreign language for a significant segment of the student’s day, creating a situation of potential language endangerment.
Anna Burnley
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Lessons Learned from a Discipline-Specific Language Support Initiative for Multilingual Students (MLSs) in a Foundational Course in Health Sciences: A Mixed-Methods Case Study from a Western Canadian University

open access: yesCanadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This mixed methods explanatory case study intends to explain low utilization of a joint initiative to improve language skills targeted to English as an additional language (EAL)/multilingual students (MLSs) in a disciplinary context.
Tun Myint   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deconstructing the instrumental/identity divide in language policy debates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Debates about language and literacy policies are increasingly constructed at national levels in relation to their potential contribution to the ‘knowledge economy’, and to the ability of nation-states to compete economically in an increasingly globalised
May, Stephen
core   +1 more source

Effects of frequency and idiomaticity on second language reading comprehension in children with English as an additional language

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Vocabulary plays an important role in reading comprehension in both the L1 and the L2 (Murphy, 2018). In measuring vocabulary knowledge, however, researchers typically focus on mono-lexical units where vocabulary assessments tend not to take into account
Rachel T. Y. Kan , Victoria A. Murphy
doaj  

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