The purpose of this study is to examine the effect computer-assisted instruction on language achievement (Kazakh, English and Russian) attitudes university students who will work in general education schools future. In line with purpose, pre-test post-test model control group was applied study. research consisted 64 pre-service teacher studying at a Astana second year 2022-2023 academic year. T...

"Our Lexicon Has Gone “Viral.” The Vocabulary of Health, Economic and Social Emergency at the Time COVID-19 Pandemic. pandemic is a global public health crisis which has radically changed our lives. Its impact goes far beyond sector, affecting all aspects society lives, including vocabulary. Since its outbreak it led to thousands newly coined words expressions (neologisms) both in English other...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of normative data on linguistic development among child speakers of Southern African languages, especially in the case of the multilingual children who constitute the largest part of this population. This inevitably impacts on the accuracy of developmental assessments of such speakers. Already negative lay opinion on the effect of early multilingualism on language d...

In an age when demand for innovative and motivating language teaching methodologies is at a very high level, TREAT the Trilingual REAding Tutor combines the most advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques with the latest second and third language acquisition (SLA/TLA), as well as computer-assisted language learning (CALL) research in an intuitive and user-friendly environment that ha...

In this article the I3Media corpus is presented, a trilingual (Catalan, English, Spanish) speech database of neutral and emotional material collected for analysis and synthesis purposes. The corpus is actually made up of six different subsets of material: a neutral subcorpus, containing emotionless utterances; a ‘dialog’ subcorpus, containing typical call center utterances; an ‘emotional’ corpu...

The linguistic repertoire of the tundra Yukaghir-Polylinguals in Lower Kolyma, Yakutia, with a population approximately 400 and fewer than 50 speakers, is represented by Yukaghir, Chukchi, Even, Yakut, Russian languages. Their speech can be characterized as mixed, including spontaneous code-switching within between utterances. Our goal to provide first description one common cases — repetition....