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Applied linguistics for teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse learners/ Nabat Erdogan and Michael Wei, editors.
No full text"This book examines linguistics and its application in English language teaching and learning. It bridges the gap between linguistic theory and its application in practice in order to prepare effective English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers and professionals"--Applied linguistics for teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse learners / Nabat Erdogan, Michael Wei -- 1. Morphosyntax: Morpho-Syntactic Marking of Inflectional Categories in English / Gulsat Aygen -- 2. Sociolinguistics: Factors Influencing English Language Learning / Jon Bakos -- 3. English Sounds in Context: The Pronunciation of Phonemes and Morphemes / Caroline Wiltshire -- 4. Morphemes / Nikki Ashcraft -- 5. Knowledge of language: the sound system, words, and sentences / Patricia Kilroe -- 6. Understanding Language in Context: Key Concepts in Pragmatics / Anna Krulatz -- 7. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis / Soe Marlar Lwin -- 8. Speech Acts and Implicatures / Clara Bauler -- 9. Sentence Structure: Intricacies Surrounding the Verb / Hye Pae -- 10. Articulatory Phonetics: English Consonants / Nabat Erdogan -- 11. English Pronunciation: The Causes of Learner Pronunciation Problems / John Rothgerber -- 12. Syntax: English Noun Phrase Structure / Trinh Ngoc Thanh.1 online resourc
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Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement
No full textAssessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement is a comprehensive resource that intends to build bridges that promote educational equity, particularly in the areas of instruction and assessment. The book consists of two parts each of which includes four chapters. Part I, entitled “Assessment as a Context for Teaching and Learning: Bridges to Equity,” focuses on the issues of equity concerning the assessment of language learners, more specifically, English Language Learners (ELLs). In the introduction to Part I, Gottlieb provides her rationale for focusing on assessment equity for ELLs, where she mentions the increasing numbers of linguistically and culturally diverse students in U.S. schools, the different life and educational experiences of ELLs, some of whom are refugees and immigrants, the importance of promoting equal educational opportunities for all students as well as these groups of students, and so on. Gottlieb provides some facts showing the changing demographics in U.S. public schools. According to Gottlieb, while language learners is an umbrella term descriptive of all students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, there are also many other terms that can be associated with this population of learners, such as linguistically and culturally diverse students, heritage language learners, English language learners, dual language learners, emergent bilinguals, long-term English language learners, etc. The author lists educators and their primary instructional and assessment responsibilities for the education of language learners, which can serve as a useful guide in determining the varied expectations from different educators in regard to their contribution to comprehensive services for ELLs. Gottlieb describes linguistically and culturally responsive classrooms and schools, and asserts that establishing a responsive learning environment is the only way to optimize learning opportunities and to effectively and equally serve the increasingly heterogeneous U.S. public school student population
Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement
No full textAssessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement is a comprehensive resource that intends to build bridges that promote educational equity, particularly in the areas of instruction and assessment. The book consists of two parts each of which includes four chapters. Part I, entitled “Assessment as a Context for Teaching and Learning: Bridges to Equity,” focuses on the issues of equity concerning the assessment of language learners, more specifically, English Language Learners (ELLs). The author lists educators and their primary instructional and assessment responsibilities for the education of language learners, which can serve as a useful guide in determining the varied expectations from different educators in regard to their contribution to comprehensive services for ELLs. Gottlieb describes linguistically and culturally responsive classrooms and schools, and asserts that establishing a responsive learning environment is the only way to optimize learning opportunities and to effectively and equally serve the increasingly heterogeneous U.S. public school student population
Integrating ai in language learning: Boosting pragmatic competence for young English learners
No full textThis article explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in enhancing pragmatic language skills of young English learners (ELs). It defines terms such as interlanguage pragmatics, pragmatic competence, and intercultural communicative competence, and discusses key concepts in pragmatics, including maxims of discourse, implicatures, presuppositions, and speech acts. The article emphasizes the importance of sociocultural context and interaction in promoting ELs’ pragmatic skills in the second language (L2). It also explores different ways AI can be utilized to teach essential pragmatic skills, including understanding implicatures, making inferences, interpreting presuppositions, applying speech acts properly, and adhering to the maxims of discourse for effective communication in the target language – specifically, English. By creating immersive and interactive learning environments, AI chatbots, dialogue systems, and platforms facilitate contextual learning that engages ELs and promotes practical language use. The article concludes by discussing the limitations and challenges related to teaching pragmatics to language learners, advocating for targeted research efforts to enhance our understanding of pragmatic development among young ELs and the role of AI tools in this proces
Integrating AI in Language Learning: Boosting Pragmatic Competence for Young English Learners
No full textThis article explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in enhancing pragmatic language skills of young English learners (ELs). It defines terms such as interlanguage pragmatics, pragmatic competence, and intercultural communicative competence, and discusses key concepts in pragmatics, including maxims of discourse, implicatures, presuppositions, and speech acts. The article emphasizes the importance of sociocultural context and interaction in promoting ELs’ pragmatic skills in the second language (L2). It also explores different ways AI can be utilized to teach essential pragmatic skills, including understanding implicatures, making inferences, interpreting presuppositions, applying speech acts properly, and adhering to the maxims of discourse for effective communication in the target language – specifically, English. By creating immersive and interactive learning environments, AI chatbots, dialogue systems, and platforms facilitate contextual learning that engages ELs and promotes practical language use. The article concludes by discussing the limitations and challenges related to teaching pragmatics to language learners, advocating for targeted research efforts to enhance our understanding of pragmatic development among young ELs and the role of AI tools in this proces
Soviet Project of Nation-State-Building in Afghanistan
No full textThe article examines the Soviet Union’s policy in Afghanistan during the period of its military
presence there (1979–1989) as a set of measures corresponding to the modern interpretation
of the concepts of nation-building and state-building. It also analyzes modern theories of nation-
and state-building and highlights their main trends, forms, and problems. The author
also proposes a unique approach that combines these two concepts as “nation-state-building”
in relation to the Soviet project in Afghanistan. The article elaborates on the main tasks of the
Soviet policy in the 1980s in Afghanistan as well as their implementation and results. Due to
the combination of “nation-building” and “state-building” concepts in a complex structure of
“nation-state-building”, the article draws conclusions, first, about the applicability of this approach
to the specific Soviet project of state-building in Afghanistan, and, second, about the
complexity of the project itself, which included ideological, political, economic, and military
components. On the basis of archive documents, memoirs of military and diplomatic actors,
and a wide scope of academic research, the author substantiates the idea of large-scale tasks
of nation-state-building in Afghanistan in Soviet foreign policy, and also indicates that the
implementation of the project encountered great difficulties from the unfolding civil war to
the inability of the Afghan leaders to consolidate the political life of the country. Soviet leadership
quickly realized the unreadiness of the Afghan society for the proposed systemic social
transformations. Despite the fact that the goals of the Soviet project were not achieved, this
does not diminish its scale and historical significance
The USSR’s economic assistance strategy to Afghanistan on the threshold of the Soviet Troops’ withdrawal
No full textThe article examines the USSR’s economic assistance strategy to Afghanistan on the threshold
of the Soviet Troops’ withdrawal on the basis of recently declassified data from the Russian
State Archive of Social and Political History. The main aspects of the Soviet economic assistance
strategy are analyzed in detail, including cooperation with the Afghan private sector,
a program of “direct links” between the Soviet Republics and the provinces of Afghanistan,
as well as a multiple increase in the volume of gratis aid. The author concludes that with the
emergence of a new military and political situation in Afghanistan on the eve of the Soviet
Troops’ withdrawal, the USSR developed a special strategy of economic assistance to Afghanistan
aimed at increasing support for the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA)
and President Najibullah among the population of this country
Al-istifadah min al-handasah al-wirathíyah fi al-hayawan wa al-nabat wa dawabituha al-Shar'iyah
No full textThis paper was submitted to the symposium held by the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS) in Kuwait during the period 13-15 October 1998 on genetics. The author speaks first about the possible benefits and harms of applying the techniques of genetic engineering on animals and plants. The larger part of this paper is dedicated to delineating ten religious rules whose consideration would make applying these techniques permissible from an Islamic perspective
