Designing an Afrikaans (third language) communicative syllabus

Designing Networked Publics for Communicative Action

Designing a Scenario-Based Syllabus for Young Learners

As we tentatively proceed into this brave new teaching world of the 21 st century, much debate is centering on the effective teaching of English to young learners. Key to this discussion has been the role of the young learner syllabus. While this article makes reference to the teaching of English to young learners in an ESL context based on documentation developed within the European Union, the...

Language and identity--the Afrikaans community in the UK.

UNLABELLED The role of language in the identity package of Afrikaans-speaking South African expatriates in the UK is investigated in this paper. A description of the community is provided and the domains of use of their first language identified. The main research problem is the relationship between language and identity in a diasporic community such as this. THE MAIN FINDINGS OF THE STUDY In...

Designing an Artificial Robotic Interaction Language

The project described hereunder focuses on the design and implementation of a “Artificial Robotic Interaction Language", where the research goal is to find a balance between the effort necessary from the user to learn a new language and the resulting benefit of optimized automatic speech recognition for a robot or a machine.

ENGLISH SPEAKER IN AN INTERNATIONAL SETTING ACOUSTIC AND LANGUAGE MODEL LlBRAR AFRIKAANS ALBANIAN ARABIC AZERBAIJANI

Automatic language identification is the process by which the language of a digitized speech utterance is recognized by a computer. In this paper, we will describe the set of available cues for language identification and discuss the different approaches to building working systems. This overview includes a range of historic approaches, contemporary systems that have been evaluated on standard ...