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The Future of Assessment in Language Education: What Have We Learnt from the Pandemic?
This chapter lays out a framework for the reconsideration of assessment systems used in language modules in the wake of the move to emergency remote...
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I-vectors and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Language Identification in Clean and Reverberant Environments
In the current study, a method for automatic language identification based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) and the i-vector paradigm is...
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Colombian English Language Teachers’ Storied Agency Contesting the Inset of Globalization and Capitalism of Education
This chapter focuses on the reflexivity and agency of language teachers’ personal, academic, and research profiles as a step toward a critical...
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Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish
The current study investigates the representational status of [Ch] sequences in Sevillian Spanish. Like many Spanish varieties, Sevillian...
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Digital Competence and Teaching Practices of Language Teachers in Sweden in a COVID-19 World
Digital competence is seen as one of the important skills for lifelong learning, and schools have begun to focus on the effect of digitalisation on...
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New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Introduction
This section introduction describes the common themes of the seven chapters included in the volume “New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign...
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The Interview-Based Study: Exploring Teachers’ Views Concerning Language Tasks
This chapter reports the findings of an interview study conducted with teachers of the students whose questionnaire and task-based data were analyzed...
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Translating Health Risks: Language as a Social Determinant of Health
The chapter conceptualizes how translation and interpreting are risk reduction tools that are quintessential aids to reduce health inequity in...
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Global ESOL Assessment Practices: The Washback Effect and Automated Testing in China
The washback effects of ESOL assessment have not attracted adequate attention in terms of the teaching and assessment practices in language...
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Develo** Language Teacher Cognition about Technology-Enhanced Assessment: A Case of Student Teachers in a TESOL Programme
Language teacher cognition has received considerable attention in the past 30 years for its crucial role in improving effective pedagogy and...
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The Role of a Mother and Siblings in Enhancing Two Young Iranian EFL Students’ Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language Through Serious Game Play
Many studies have demonstrated that commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games can foster learners’ second language (L2) willingness to communicate (WTC)....
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Named Entity Recognition for Classifying Technoscientific Persons: Combining Pre-trained Language Models and Silver Standard Datasets
Research question: While generic named entity recognition (NER) models perform well on general tasks, custom NER models can provide more efficient...
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Multisensory Pronunciation Training in a Video Conference-Based Foreign Language Classroom
Speech production is multimodal and multisensory. We present a novel approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that directs foreign...
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Teacher Education in Mobile Assisted Language Learning for Adult Migrants: A Study of Provincial Centres for Adult Education in Italy
Provincial Centres for Adult Education (It. Centri Provinciali per l’Istruzione degli Adulti, CPIA) have in recent years been tasked with teaching...
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Investigating the Chinese and English Language Proficiency of Tertiary Students in Hong Kong: Insights from a Student Translation Corpus
This study aims to investigate the Chinese and English language proficiency of tertiary students in Hong Kong through the unique lens of translation....
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The View of Language Through the Paradigm of Linguistics
This chapter outlines what we came to see as being a ‘paradigm of linguistics’. We came to see this as a way of seeing the supporting of students,...
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Changing Language Assessment New Dimensions, New Challenges
This edited book brings together fifteen original empirical studies from a variety of international contexts to provide a detailed exploration of...
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Testing the impact of online training in areas of reading instruction on educator knowledge
Considerable effort has been exerted to identify effective instructional methods to teach reading in the early grades. Ideally, these practices would...
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Innovative Strategies for Stabilizing Enrollment in Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) Education
Korean Foreign Language (KFL) education in the U.S. reached a turning point in the mid-1980s, spurred by the rising international visibility of two...
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Traces of Language Contact in Nominal Morphology of Late Northumbrian and Northern Middle English
This chapter investigates the potential influence of Old Norse on the nominal morphology of Late Northumbrian and Northern Middle English. The study...