The Impact of Silozi Language on the Teaching of Numeracy in the Zambezi Region
International Journal of Trends in Mathematics Education Research, 2020 The study reports on the challenges lower primary numeracy teachers in the Zambezi Region face when using Silozi language as a medium of instruction. The use of Silozi language as a medium of instruction is part of the Namibian language policy in schools.
M Mukwambo, D Mhakure, N Sitwala
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Defining a Lingua Franca to Open the Black Box of a Naïve Bayes Recommender [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Many AI systems have a black box nature that makes it difficult to understand how they make their recommendations. This can be unsettling, as the designer cannot be certain how the system will respond to novelty. To penetrate our Na\"ive Bayes recommender's black box, we first asked, what do we want to know from our system, and how can it be obtained ...
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A Compositional Atlas of Tractable Circuit Operations: From Simple Transformations to Complex Information-Theoretic Queries [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Circuit representations are becoming the lingua franca to express and reason about tractable generative and discriminative models. In this paper, we show how complex inference scenarios for these models that commonly arise in machine learning -- from computing the expectations of decision tree ensembles to information-theoretic divergences of deep ...
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MAINTAINING VERNACULARS TO PROMOTE PEACE AND TOLERANCEIN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITY IN INDONESIA [PDF]
, 2011 Indonesia is a large nation in terms of ethnics, cultures, and vernaculars. Indonesian constitution guarantees that the cultures, vernaculars will be taken care of by the government.
,, Rustipai , Katharina
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The Importance of English Language in Facing Asean Economic Community (AEC) [PDF]
, 2017 Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA) harus dihadapi oleh Indonesia segera. Diperlukan berbagai persiapan untuk siap di pasar bebas masyarakat ASEAN. Satu hal yang sangat penting dalam kesuksesan MEA ini adalah penguasaan bahasa Inggris.
Shobikah, Nanik
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Lower Income Marriage Migrants and Domains of Integration in Singapore
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the domains of integration, this paper illuminates the integration experiences of female marriage migrants from lower income cross‐national families in Singapore. Through interviews with 38 cross‐national families of the Singaporean‐husband and foreign‐wife pairing, we show how the integration of lower income marriage migrants in ...
Bernice Loh +3 more
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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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English for Specific Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]
, 2012 This chapter shows that English as a lingua franca (ELF) and English for specific purposes (ESP) share common ground. ESP, and the research methodologies that support the ESP, can be seen to have made an important contribution to the understanding of ...
Nickerson, Catherine
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INTERVIEW: Interview with Professor Barbara Seidlhofer
Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018 Professor Barbara Seidlhofer is a professor of English and applied linguistics at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research and teaching focus is on English as a lingua franca (conceptualization, description, theoretical implications), the nature ...
Davoud Amini
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Translation of Werner Heisenberg's Paper "Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations" Zeitschrift für Physik 33, 1925, 879-893 into Czech language [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 To facilitate teaching of quantum mechanics on undergraduate and even advanced secondary school levels, we present an unabridged translation of the original German text of the famous Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough paper of 1925 into Czech language.
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