Exploring students’ performance using lingua franca in science education: a study of grade ten students in Capiz, Philippines [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 Background Currently global competitiveness is the main thrust of the country’s education department, raising the quality of education in the Philippines has become a priority for government officials, who see it as one way to address other teaching and ...
Dirk Diestro
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International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020 Conceptualizations of English as standard, as a lingua franca, or as part of translingual practice form part of the discourses surrounding its use in EMI.
Maria Kuteeva
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Epistemic Diversity and the Question of Lingua Franca in Science and Philosophy [PDF]
Foundations of Science, 2019 Epistemic diversity is the ability or possibility of producing diverse and rich epistemic apparati to make sense of the world around us. In this paper we discuss whether, and to what extent, different conceptions of knowledge—notably as ‘justified true ...
Federico Gobbo, Federica Russo
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The learning potential of English as a lingua franca contexts in the eyes of study abroad students
Studies in Second Language Learning and TeachingThis paper presents insights from two interview studies with the aim of shedding light on the learning potential of studying abroad in an area where English is used as a lingua franca. The majority of previous research on study abroad focuses on students’
Sybille Heinzmann +2 more
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Self-denigration as a relational strategy in lingua franca talk: Asian English speakers
Journal of Pragmatics, 2018 This paper examines how Asian speakers of English as a lingua franca employ self-denigration as a relational strategy (i.e. contributing to the ongoing management of interpersonal relationships) in talk-in-interaction.
Ian Walkinshaw +2 more
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High-performance Deterministic Concurrency Using Lingua Franca [PDF]
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2023 Actor frameworks and similar reactive programming techniques are widely used for building concurrent systems. They promise to be efficient and scale well to a large number of cores or nodes in a distributed system.
Christian Menard +9 more
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Symbols as a Lingua Franca for Bridging Human-AI Chasm for Explainable and Advisable AI Systems [PDF]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Despite the surprising power of many modern AI systems that often learn their own representations, there is significant discontent about their inscrutability and the attendant problems in their ability to interact with humans.
Subbarao Kambhampati +4 more
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Comparing L2 learning outcomes in traditional and English as a lingua franca study abroad contexts
Language Learning Journal, 2023 The number of students embarking on a study abroad experience continues to grow steadily. A new setting for study abroad in English has developed recently where students may be studying in an environment where English is used as a lingua franca but is ...
Judith Borràs
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Toward a Lingua Franca for Deterministic Concurrent Systems
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2021 Many programming languages and programming frameworks focus on parallel and distributed computing. Several frameworks are based on actors, which provide a more disciplined model for concurrency than threads.
Marten Lohstroh +3 more
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L’ITALIANO LINGUA FRANCA NEL CALCIO. IL CASO DELL’ATALANTA BERGAMASCA CALCIO
Italiano LinguaDue, 2021 Il presente contributo si propone di indagare quale sia la lingua franca usata nelle interazioni dall’Atalanta B.C., una delle squadre di Serie A dal più marcato profilo multietnico e multilinguistico.
Sara Colombo
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