The digitalization of cultural materials is doubtless a key-enabler for increasing accessibility of cultural heritage documents, e.g., historical texts. In the last decade Semantic Digital Libraries (see, e.g., [1]) have attracted the attention of research communities coming from different research areas, such as Cultural Heritage, History, and Knowledge Engineering. In order to find more innov...

This paper compares the oral and visual representations which 12 to 13-year-old students produced in studying computer games as part of an English and Media course. It presents the arguments for studying multimodal texts as part of a literacy curriculum and then provides an overview of the games course devised by teachers and researchers. The analysis of a group interview and a set of six drawi...

With the growing availability of digitized text data both publicly and privately, there is a great need for effective computational tools to automatically extract information from texts. Because the Chinese language differs most significantly from alphabet-based languages in not specifying word boundaries, most existing Chinese text-mining methods require a prespecified vocabulary and/or a larg...

The aim of the work reported here is to provide a tool to help secondary school (high school) age students to reflect on the structure of their essays. Numerous tools are available to help students check their spelling and grammar. Very little, however, has been done to help them with higher level problems in their texts. In order to do this, we need to be able to analyse the discourse relation...

This case describes an experience of presenting a work on pragmatism and pragmatic sociology, in the EAD class modality non-presential way, carried out by PhD students, postgraduate program Florianopolis, times pandemic. The subject Epistemology Science Administration had workload 60 hours, was held between months August to December 2020. It also sought discuss learnings arising from such discu...

Reading online is different from reading offline. Are language teachers’ strategies for reading electronic texts and reading printed texts different? Do language teachers have different attitudes toward reading printed texts and reading electronic texts, particularly web-based reading materials? Several groups of in-service language teachers enrolled in a postgraduate course on computer-assiste...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that narrative and expository texts differ in the extent to which they prompt students to integrate to-be-learned content with relevant prior knowledge during comprehension. AIMS We expand on previous research by examining on-line processing and representation in memory of to-be-learned content that is embedded in narrative or expository texts. We are par...

This study was carried out with 2 students with mild mental deficiency, one in 5 th grade and the other in 6 th grade of Turgut Özal Secondary School in Bulanık County of Muş Province. It was done during the spring semester of the 2014-2015 school year in order to observe the effect of multimedia-assisted instruction on listening skills of mainstreamed students with mild mental deficiency. The ...

During the first millennium of Common Era, Indo-Aryan (Niya Prakrit), Iranian (Khotan Saka) and Tokharian (Kentum Indo-European) languages were spoken in oasis towns at edge Tarim Basin. Many speakers those Buddhists many written documents these address Buddhist topics. The aim article is twofold. First: to show that representatives three language families (Niya, Sakian,Tokharian) displayed ten...