Semantic Prosody Revisited: Implications for Language Learning

Cultural Conceptualizations in Persian Language: Implications for L2 Learning

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

Cultural Conceptualizations in Persian Language: Implications for L2 Learning

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

cultural conceptualizations in persian language: implications for l2 learning

The effect of language complexity and group size on knowledge construction: Implications for online learning

This  study  investigated  the  effect  of  language  complexity  and  group  size  on  knowledge construction in two online debates. Knowledge construction was assessed using Gunawardena et al.’s Interaction Analysis Model (1997). Language complexity was determined by dividing the  number  of  unique  words  by  total  words.  It  refers  to  the  lexical  variation.  The  results showed  that...

Implications of Prosody Modeling for Prosody Recognition

This paper introduces Stem-ML, which is a model of the prosody generation process with an associated description language, and suggests how it may help prosody recognition. We applied Stem-ML modeling to three topics: the modeling of prosodic strengths, intonation types, and noun phrase patterns. Stem-ML parameters derived from )&* contours may have a more consistent relationship with prosodic ...