The discourse about immigrants. Argumentation strategies in Polish weekly magazines

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...

Argumentation Mining in Scientific Discourse

The dominant approach to argumentation mining has been to treat argumentation scheme detection as a machine learning problem based upon superficial text features, and to treat the relationships between arguments as support or attack. However, applications such as accurately representing and summarizing argumentation in scientific research articles require a deeper understanding of the text and ...

Argumentation Mining in Parliamentary Discourse

We examine whether using frame choices in forum statements can help us identify framing strategies in parliamentary discourse. In this analysis, we show how features based on embedding representations can improve discovering various frames in argumentative political speech. Given the complex nature of the parliamentary discourse, the initial results that are presented here are promising. We fur...

The Surrogate Hegemon in Polish Postcolonial Discourse

Smoking characteristics of Polish immigrants in Dublin

BACKGROUND This study examined two main hypotheses: a) Polish immigrants' smoking estimates are greater than their Irish counterparts (b) Polish immigrants purchasing cigarettes from Poland smoke "heavier" (>/= 20 cigarettes a day) when compared to those purchasing cigarettes from Ireland. The study also set out to identify significant predictors of 'current' smoking (some days and everyday) am...