Slovene-English Language Contact and Language Change

Language Change and Language Contact

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Topic ontology construction from English and Slovene language technologies corpora

This paper presents the OntoGen topic ontology construction tool and the process of building topic ontologies from English and Slovene research papers in the domain of language technologies. We were interested in how cleaning the documents (e.g. removing the references section), manual concept moving and renaming, or using supervised active learning affect the ontologies. Gradnja ontologij tema...

Language Contact and Deliberate Change

Historical linguists have always known that some linguistic changes result from deliberate, conscious actions by speakers. But the general assumption has been that such changes are relatively trivial, confined mainly to the invention or borrowing of new words, changes in lexical semantics, and the adoption of a few structural features from a prestige dialect. The goal of this paper is to show t...

Postmodernism and English Language Teaching

This paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the TESOL. Postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the TESOL theoretically in some ways. The elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...