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In this poster, we discuss ideas on how to support cross-language communication, which tends to arouse cultural gaps, even if trans-lingual interpretation is provided. Many people usually write article (diary/essay/ etc.) on their daily experiences as UGC (User-Generated Content) through social media. Among them there may be certain situation of miscommunication caused by cultural gaps. Using text...
The article is a study based on the ZOE European project (Zoonoses Online Education/ 2016-1-RO01-KA203-024732) aiming at helping students acquire and practice medical language skills by using ZOE language MOOC. The article highlights transferable lessons to be learned from previous MOOC experiences of medical universities in Iasi as quality items in further developments of MOOCs.
The focus of this research was to explore the impact of Six Creative and Assimilated Navigation, SCAN model, covering the six cultural metaphorical factors: TIME, SPACE, BODY, VISION, EMOTION and SOCIALIZATION aspects on the acquisition of cultural metaphor through cultural factors blended in Taiwanese public media based on the perspectives discovered from the participants, selected from registered...
Reading ability is one of the most important skills to language learners. Grade-level reading corpus can be more targeted to improve learners' reading abilities. Based on the Corpus of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (CTC), this paper presents a grade standard for the construction of a grade-level reading corpus. The corpus is tagged with linguistic information, and it can be used as a language...
Research abstract is a text of foremost importance to students of science and engineering. However, explicit teaching of it tends to be missing in EGP and EGAP curricula of general Japanese English education. This paper reports the evaluation of abstracts written by 3rd-year students in an undergraduate ESP course at a Japanese university of science and engineering. At first, students were taught...
The paper presents various Russian language corpora to discuss professional advantages and cultural benefits of linguistic corpora technology in comparison with the pre-computational and pre-corpora state-of-the-art in language research and Arts and Humanities. As the most faithful ‘mirror’ of political, intellectual and spiritual life of a nation during current state and in historical perspective,...
In our current information society, the development of information competency is one of the basic objectives to be developed in primary [1], secondary [2] and even higher education, as pointed out by both the Horizon Report [3], [4], [5] and UNESCO [6], [7]. At the tertiary stage of education, it has been observed that in both Chile and Spain students in many cases have not developed the basic skills...
The brief description of intellectual monitoring system of university students competences formation process using the complex-valued status function method is suggested. Algorithm for formation of SF are present. Monitoring system and possible aspects of intellectualized of this system are described. This work is devoted to the discussion of the intellectualization of the IS for monitoring of the...
MOOC environments seem to offer massive potential for social learning. However, MOOC environments have unique challenges for pedagogy which are not present in other socio-constructivist learning environments: the scale and diversity of participation. Many points of view are accessible, but few means of filtering. This paper examines interaction data from several MOOCs. Interaction data is an indicator...
Globalisation is one of the key terms used to describe actual trends as positive, but there are many aspects of this concept that should be carefully considered, such as people's cultural identity. Africa is one of the most diverse and culturally rich continents in the world, something that is not widely known. Heritage is one of the building blocks of cohesion and solidarity of the society and in...
In this paper, we report on changes made to a module that is taken by all first-year electronic engineering students, and which covers transferable and engineering skills. To improve students' perception of and learning experience on the module, half of the taught material was migrated from a traditional ‘physical’ lecture format to specially recorded ‘online’ lectures. The changes were evaluated...
In Seleskovitch's interpretive theory of translation, the construct of sense is the core of the triangular process of translation. Taking this as a starting point, the present paper argues that the construct of sense is only part of the truth of the reality in translation. The translator in a translation not only constructs sense at the stimulus of the source text, but also makes meaning for the readers...
This research investigated the effects of using WebQuest on developing first year secondary students' reading comprehension skills and cultural awareness in an experimental school in Egypt. 31 students was selected at random and assigned to an experimental group. One form of a reading comprehension test and a cultural awareness test were administered to the students as pre-and post-tests. Statistical...
The paper identifies the characteristics of the post Y-Generation in relation to information processing and knowledge management in order to support the growing awareness of the digital age and the assumption that socialization and acculturation in the digital era rests on a significant paradigm change in the realm of social cognition. Digital culture is claimed to be acquired by the members of modern...
This paper presents a research on the design and development of a serious game called EU-Topia. This serious game aims to raise students' awareness of interculturality during job mobility. EU-Topia is developed through an approach based on participatory design. After design and development phases, the serious game has been assessed by users as generally satisfactory which, in our opinion, can be inherent...
As traditional lecture styles have become nowadays less desirable and profitable, more and more demands are made on the part of both teachers and learners. One way of helping teachers fulfil their students' ‘growing’ needs in the age of globalisation is through the introduction of technology in the classroom. The present paper, therefore, intends to exploit the notion of cultural responsiveness in...
Internet is an attractive cultural exchange platform in the language and literature intelligent teaching system, particularly for foreigner which is difficult to understanding cultural background. The process the traditional teaching system is suited to native culture background but because of the long time required, conventional Education facilities would require excessive student carrying capacity...
In today's global intercultural activities, individuals and organizations must be culturally intelligent. Research on Cultural Intelligence provides a new perspective and a promising means of reducing intercultural conflicts and obstacles. Up until now, research in this domain has used traditional methods in aiding cultural experts, and has relied mainly on questionnaires to test manually the Cultural...
The purpose of this paper is to explore how user experience (UX) influences user satisfaction when interacting with digital culture heritage online collections from non-expert perspective. Non-experts are categorised as apprentice investigator and general public. UX factors and website features that influence user satisfaction were identified and investigated. The relevancy is to examine whether existing...
In the attempt to shed light on the multifaceted complexity of privacy, this paper explores the frames that emerged in American coverage of privacy since the 1980s. Informed by framing theory, this study assumes that media frames represent an important component of how society approaches and discusses issues. The author collected 2,473 articles covering privacy published in three timeframes. The author...
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