This essay is essentially divided into three parts. The first part is going to focus on early Soviet attitudes towards the Russian language itself, followed by a discussion of the early Soviet policies regarding non-Russian languages in the second part. The gradual shift away from the liberal language policies of the 1920s towards the new policies emerging in the late 1930s, overtly imposing Ru...

the present study was conducted to evaluate data driven learning (ddl) combined with computer assisted language learning (call) as an approach to improving vocabulary knowledge of iranian postgraduates majoring in teaching english, english literature and translation. the purpose was to help language learners get familiar with ddl as a student-centered method taking advantage of a computer progr...

Attitudes, self-management, and quality of life (QoL) in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have become important issues in Malaysia. The main objective of this study was to examine the level of attitudes, selfmanagement and QoL among people with T2DM in the Malay population. This was a cross-sectional study and 200 participants with T2DM completed the questionnaires. The original Engl...

Human speakers modulate the fundamental frequency (F0) of their utterances in order to express different 'prosodic' attitudes such as surprise or curiosity. How are these prosodic attitudes then decoded? The current research addresses the issue of how the temporal structure of F0 can be used in order to discriminate between prosodic attitudes in natural language using a temporal recurrent neura...

AIM To investigate healthcare professionals' perceptions of caring for people from ethnic minorities with poor or no English language skills when accessing health care. METHOD Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 34 healthcare professionals to identify their perception of barriers encountered by those with poor or no English language skills. FINDINGS Five main themes were identi...

Based on an ongoing attempt to integrate Natural Language instructions with human figure animation, we demonstrate that agents' understanding and use of instructions can complement what they can derive from the environment in which they act. We focus on two attitudes that contribute to agents' behavior their intentions and their expectations and shown how Natural Language instructions contribut...

The use of subtitles in a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) program can assist learners in the comprehension of the language input they are exposed to. In an interactive CALL program, subtitles may also help learners in the formulation of their own responses. This paper describes the evaluation of a speech interactive CALL program that combines speech recognition technology, embodied a...