increasingly intercultural dimension of communication in the 21st century has brought about challenging aims in efl (english as a foreign language) pedagogy, such as ascertaining the enhancement of the learners' intercultural awareness and promoting their ability to communicate in intercultural settings. taking the disadvantage of efl environment in terms of intercultural input into account, co...

Abstract To address racial inequity and the exclusion of African Americans in applied linguistics, second-language acquisition, world language (WL) education, our field must reckon with social justice problems racism anti-Blackness. Theoretical frameworks critical race theory (CRT) pedagogy (CRP) elucidate how such injustices are perpetuated, plus, propose solutions for them. This article discu...

Language learning is a relatively new application for natural language processing (NLP) and for intelligent tutoring and learning environments (ITLEs). NLP has a crucial role to play in foreign language ITLEs, whether they are designed for explicit or implicit learning of the vocabulary and grammar. FLUENT is an implicit approach, in which NLP and sharedcontrol animation support a two-medium co...

Language exerts a powerful influence on our concepts. We review evidence documenting the developmental origins of a precocious link between language and object categories in very young infants. This collection of studies documents a cascading process in which early links between language and cognition provide the foundation for later, more precise ones. We propose that, early in life, language ...

This paper publishes the results of a study of Hong Kong Chinese upper secondary students (Form 4 and Form 6) regarding their motivation orientations for learning English. The study analysed male and females student groups using Gardner and Lambert’s (1972) ‘extrinsic and intrinsic motivation’ theoretical framework in order to elicit the most revealing results from the data. Findings will have ...