“Daddy, Can You Speak Our Language?” Multilingual and Intercultural Awareness through Identity Texts

Do you speak the language of dyspnea?

Developing Intercultural Awareness and Language Speaking Proficiency for Foreign Language Learners through Cross-Cultural Voicemail Exchange

To expand global and intercultural communication, the effectiveness of asynchronous online communication devices, especially email, have been discussed in the area of foreign language teaching. A lack of specific research exists that addresses the application of online voicemail. This paper reports on a five month period of voicemail exchanges between 53 EFL learners in Taiwan and 56 CFL learne...

Learning to Tag Multilingual Texts Through Observation

This paper describes RoboTag, an advanced prototype for a machine learningbased multilingual information extraction system. First, we describe a general client/server architecture used in learning from observation. Then we give a detailed description of our novel decision-tree tagging approach. RoboTag performance for the proper noun tagging task in English and Japanese is compared against huma...

Intercultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching: A Chinese Perspective

The paper discusses the status quo of the English culture teaching and learning in Chinese colleges. In the pedagogical level, most foreign language teachers have very vague idea of what the culture should be and what should be taught in terms of English culture. Lacking in the principled methodology in promoting students’ intercultural awareness, teachers either turn deaf to the new trend or f...

Exploring students' language awareness through intercultural communication in computer-supported collaborative learning

Students seldom think about language unless they are instructed to do so or are made to do so during learning activities. To arouse students’ awareness while learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), this study formed a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community to engage teachers and students from different domains and countries in intercultural communication. Participating...