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Media Competence As a Part of Students’ Language Competence

Modern Communication Studies, 2015
In this article we examine the notions of media competence and media critics, which means a critical approach to mass media texts, from the point of view of the needs of modern education not only for native speakers, but also for students of foreign languages practicing with mass media material. Special attention is paid to the ...
A. Kovrigina, null Ковригина
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Language Competence

2004
Abstract Many newly arrived international adoptees have delayed speech in their primary languages (Table 31–1) (see Chapter 13). These delays may not be obvious after immersion in a new language milieu. Inexperienced parents may overlook the important delays in pre-speech development common among young children.
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Assessing will-be CLIL Teachers' language competence : issues of testing and language competence of education professionals

Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata : XV, 1, 2015, 2015
The increasingly integral role of CLIL in the discourse surrounding secondary schooling in Italy suggests that this innovative teaching approach will become a protagonist in the future of learning in Italy. Yet, the implementation of CLIL in the Italian context raises a series of questions and concerns, the most pressing of which regard the level of ...
Jacqueline Aiello, Emilia Di Martino, Bruna Di Sabato   +2 more
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Language Competence and Language Mediation Competence in Translation Studies and Language Teaching

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
In this article, I will compare the concept of mediation competence, its modelling and its relationship to language competence in Translation Studies and Language Teaching. While competence modelling has a long tradition in Translation Studies and focuses on describing the competences of professional translators (often opposed to bilinguals’ competence)
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Competing Patterns for Language Engineering

2000
In this paper we describe a method of effective handling of linguistic data by means of covering and inhibiting patterns - patterns that "compete" each other. A methodology of developing such patterns is outlined. Applications in the areas of morphology, hyphenation and part-of-speech tagging are shown.
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Analytical competence and language impairment in aphasia

Brain and Language, 1980
Abstract Matched groups of Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics, brain-damaged patients without aphasia and chronic schizophrenics were tested in a nonverbal matching task where the subject had to indicate which of two pictures was more closely linked to a clue picture. Eight additional verbal and nonverbal reference tasks were administered.
R, Cohen, S, Kelter, G, Woll
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Language competence in movement: a child's perspective

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
This article examines how, in a multilingual perspective, language competence is experienced, talked about and practiced by language users themselves. By viewing children as active co-creators of the spaces in which language is used, this article contributes to a research tradition in which focus is shifted from viewing the individual's language ...
Laursen, Helle Pia; id_orcid 0000-0001-9496-676X, Mogensen, Naja Dahlstrup   +1 more
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Global Health Language and Culture Competency

Journal of Special Operations Medicine, 2012
This article presents findings from a survey conducted to examine the availability of foreign language and culture training to Civil Affairs health personnel and the relevance of that training to the tasks they perform. Civil Affairs forces recognize the value of cross-cultural communication competence because their missions involve a significant level
Charles, Beadling, John, Maza, Gregg, Nakano, Maysaa, Mahmood, Shakir, Jawad, Ali, Al-Ameri, Scott, Zuerlein, Warner, Anderson   +7 more
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Mediated Language Competence

This chapter advances Mediated Language Competence (MLC), a transdisciplinary model of translation as mediated praxis. It integrates Translation Studies (skopos, loyalty, habitus), Applied Linguistics (Vygotskian mediation, translanguaging), and critical technology studies to position the translator as a Mediator-Translator who makes accountable ...
Maria João Ferro, Hélder Fanha Martins
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Metaphoric Competence in Cognitive and Language Development

1985
Consideration of the age-related changes in children's language and cognitive development suggests qualitative changes in their creative language use. Many, if not most, researchers in the area have argued that some metaphoric competence emerges far earlier than would be expected on the basis of explanation or interpretation tasks alone.
M, Marschark, L, Nall
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