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Question Time: A Bonus or Pain in the Quest for Political Accountability in the Zimbabwean Parliament
This chapter examines ‘Question Time’ (Nguva yeMibvunzo) as a tool for political accountability (tsananguro yekutarira yezvematongerwo enyika) in...
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Assessing the Relevance of Emerging Technologies in Disaster Mitigation and Relief Efforts
Southern Africa, which is the site of the study, has been subjected to several floods in recent years. While there have been some considerable...
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Foreign Language Education in the Southern Caribbean: An Overview
This chapter provides an overview of foreign/second language learning and teaching research and innovation in the Southern Caribbean region. A brief...
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South Korea: Community Interpreting in South Korea—A Case Study of Police Interpreting
This chapter presents an overview of interpreter training programs commissioned by the Korean National Police Agency between 2018 and 2020. The short...
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The Representation of Refugees and Migrants in the Italian Media Discourse
The ‘migration discourse’, including the ‘refugee crisis’, has been the subject of different works analyzing how the public images and identities of...
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Barriers and Opportunities in CALL PD in Romania: Judging the Effectiveness of Teacher-Led PD
The pandemic was a turning point in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Professional Development (CALL PD) in Romania, as very little had been done...
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Remote Chinese Teaching and Learning at Japanese Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Universities in Japan have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter summarizes Emergent Remote Teaching (ERT) during 2020, based...
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COVID-19-Related Information: The Politics in Crises and Disaster Management Communication in sub-Saharan Africa
Media statements by various political figures and politicians across the world regarding the COVID-19 pandemic are often laced with political nuances...
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Ukraine: Training Interpreters and Translators in Times of Crises: A Case Study of an Ukrainian University Working Through the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War
This chapter focuses on describing our adaptation to remote interpreter training in conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the adjustment of our...
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Credibility in Risk Communication: Oman’s Official Arabic COVID-19 Risk Communication and Its English Translation
Risk communication relies on credibility and trust. Communicators create credibility in their discourse by using a range of discursive strategies...
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Canada: Canadian Interpreter Education During a Pandemic
This chapter explores the experiences of two Canadian sign languageInterpretingsign language interpreter education programs as they shifted to...
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After the Evacuation
Publicity in the West around the chaotic Evacuation in August 2021 had brought a wider group of endangered Afghan civilians into the civic...
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An English Literature Professor Applies CALL PD in Her Classroom and Outreach Programs: Reflections and Implications
Most computer-assisted language learning professional development (CALL PD) in Romania is self-driven. At the university level, PD happens in an even...
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Introduction
This book gathers a collection of selected contributions from the “9th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference” (ICLC9), which was organised...
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Develo** an Online Community and Intercultural Competence: Travelling Virtually to China
In this chapter we will illustrate and analyse the outcomes of an online exchange programme that took place in 2020–2021 and 2021–2022 between the...
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Speaker Identification
This chapter aims to provide information on how the analysis of a voice can assist in solving a crime. The field of phonetics is the science that...
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Things to Do in the Translation Class When Technologies Change: The Case of Generative AI
The rapid evolution of translation technologies, especially the emergence of generative artificial intelligence, presents major pedagogical...
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Teaching argument writing in math class: challenges and solutions to improve the performance of 4th and 5th graders with disabilities
Incorporating argument writing as a learning activity has been found to increase students’ mathematics performance. However, teachers report...
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Topics
This chapter focuses on topic modelling, i.e. the automatic extraction of topics or themes from a corpus. Topic modelling goes a step further than...
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Portuguese as a Welcoming Language: Breaking Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries
In the linguistic education process, the reasons for teaching and learning Portuguese for migrants and refugees are associated with the needs related...