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Image as a Foreign Language: BEIT Pretraining for Vision and Vision-Language Tasks

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023
A big convergence of language, vision, and multimodal pretraining is emerging. In this work, we introduce a general-purpose multimodal foundation model BEIT-3, which achieves excellent transfer performance on both vision and vision-language tasks ...
Wen Wang, Hangbo Bao, Li Dong, Johan Bjorck, Zhiliang Peng, Qiangbo Liu, Kriti Aggarwal, O. Mohammed, Saksham Singhal, Subhojit Som, Furu Wei   +10 more
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Content Generator Technology for Young English-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners’ Reading Enjoyment

RELC Journal : A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 2023
Artificial intelligence has recently seen tremendous growth, and been applied to several fields, including the second-language domain. In this article, we share an innovative practice based on one of potential artificial intelligence technologies for ...
J. Lee, Dongkwang Shin, Won-jun Noh
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Demystifying the predictive role of students’ perceived foreign language teacher support in foreign language anxiety: The mediation of L2 grit

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Within students’ proximal social environment, the crucial role of their perceived foreign language teacher support in their academic learning has emerged in numerous empirical studies in recent decades.
Honggang Liu*, Xiaoxue Li, Yan Yan
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Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2023
Since teacher work engagement is argued to substantially affect education quality and learners’ performance, unveiling the factors affecting teacher engagement is of high significance. As an attempt to explore the antecedents of this construct in English-
J. Fathi, L. Zhang, M. H. Arefian
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Foreign language learning boredom and enjoyment: The effects of learner variables and teacher variables

Language Teaching Research, 2022
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting.
Chengchen Li
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The effectiveness of machine translation in foreign language education: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
With a significant number of students using machine translation (MT) for academic purposes in recent years, language teachers can no longer ignore it in their classrooms.
Sangmin-Michelle Lee
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Foreign language acquisition via artificial intelligence and extended reality: design and evaluation

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR) have been employed in several foreign language education applications to increase the availability of experiential learning methods akin to international immersion programs.
Rahul R. Divekar, Jaimie Drozdal, Samuel Chabot, Yalun Zhou, Hui Su, Yue Chen, Houming Zhu, J. Hendler, J. Braasch   +8 more
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Conceptualisation and measurement of foreign language learning burnout among Chinese EFL students

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The study seeks to conceptualise foreign language learning burnout and provide its corresponding measurement. The 15-item Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS) was rephrased to fit an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learning context.
Chengchen Li, L. Zhang, Guiying Jiang
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A longitudinal study of foreign language anxiety and enjoyment

Language Teaching Research, 2021
The present longitudinal study investigated the changes of FLE (foreign language enjoyment) and FLA (foreign language anxiety) over time in the foreign language classroom and their relationship with foreign language learning motivation and learners ...
Chunmei Pan, Xian Zhang
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Interactions of trait emotional intelligence, foreign language anxiety, and foreign language enjoyment in the foreign language speaking classroom

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The present study investigated the interactions of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) in the foreign language speaking classroom.
Zhuo Chen, Ping Zhang, Yi Lin, Yanxia Li
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