Language Awareness Amongst Teachers in a Central German Dialect Area

‘Not Knowing is Hence, Not Loving’ The Significance of Raising Language Awareness Amongst Teachers of Content Area Learning

Listening to or speaking another language that we do not know or rarely use can be a daunting or even a frustrating experience in communication. Similarly, for language not to be addressed in content area, teaching and learning may hence do a disservice to students especially ones that find learning in another language challenging. Thus ‘Not knowing is hence not loving’, a literal translation f...

The Evolution of Teachers’ Language Awareness

German Alcohol Language Corpus - the Question of Dialect

Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schellingstr. 3, 80799 München, Germany schiel|[email protected] Abstract Speech uttered under the influence of alcohol is known to deviate from the speech of the same person when sober. This is an important feature in forensic investigations and could also be used to detect intoxication in the auto...

Awareness about Ethics Committee amongst the Medical Teachers in a Medical College.

INTRODUCTION The Ethics Committees (EC) are established to safeguard the safety and rights of the subjects participating in a research study. No formal training about Ethics Committee is given to the medical students in undergraduate and post graduate education as a part of curriculum. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To study the awareness about the composition and functioning of EC amongst the medical t...

Willingness to Communicate (WTC) among Beginning-level German Learners: Teaching German as a Foreign Language in a U.S. University Classroom

This action research examines the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in a second language acquisition context. The researcher investigated the contributors of WTC in a foreign language classroom setting. Therefore, a multiple assignments method and sequence was applied. Participants of this study were students who matriculated in a United States (U.S.) undergraduate program, studying G...