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Effects of Language Relatedness for Cross-lingual Transfer Learning in Character-Based Language Models

open access: yes, 2020
Character-based Neural Network Language Models (NNLM) have the advantage of smaller vocabulary and thus faster training times in comparison to NNLMs based on multi-character units. However, in low-resource scenarios, both the character and multi-character NNLMs suffer from data sparsity.
Singh, Mittul   +3 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Students’ beliefs, basic psychological needs, classroom participation, foreign language anxiety, and academic adjustment: A correlation study in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

open access: yesHeliyon
This study aimed to explore the relationships between study variables that directly and indirectly affect students' beliefs and academic adaptation. A measurement tool model was used to assess participants' ‘academic adjustment’ (academic motivation ...
Nargiza Nuralieva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficacy of Using Social Networks in Learning and Teaching Based on Self-Determination Theory: An Interventional Study [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences, 2018
Background: Self-determination theory, which deals with motivation and personality, comprises three factors of autonomy, competence and relatedness that can be influenced by the features and potentials of social networks.
Elham Akbari, Robert-Jan Simons
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Dimensional Personality and Autistic Traits to Predict Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury in Autistic Adults

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the elevated rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) in autistic adults, we examined whether autism‐informed traits and transdiagnostic personality tendencies jointly relate to these outcomes.
Aliona Tsypes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution and Epiphany: Language in Biological and Theological Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Brief sketches are given, on the one hand, of three \"biological\" accounts of human language that construe its function in terms of evolutionary adaptation, and, on the other hand, of three \"theological\" accounts of language that construe its function
Lee, Maurice
core   +1 more source

Knowledge-rich Image Gist Understanding Beyond Literal Meaning

open access: yes, 2018
We investigate the problem of understanding the message (gist) conveyed by images and their captions as found, for instance, on websites or news articles. To this end, we propose a methodology to capture the meaning of image-caption pairs on the basis of
Dietz, Laura   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Relatedness as a Factor in Language Contact

open access: yesJournal of Language Contact, 2013
Contact-induced change among related languages has been considered problematic for language reconstruction. In this article, I consider several aspects of the theory of language change and ways in which contact might interact with language relatedness.
openaire   +2 more sources

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

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