I explore my experiences as a settler teacher and emerging scholar by unpacking time place in the short children’s story The Little Hummingbird Michael Nicoll Yahgaulanaas. demonstrate understanding with hyperlapse video of traditional beading, skill taught to me local Indigenous Elders. begin unpack myself others centering hummingbird, protagonist who continues put drops water on raging forest...

While the role of task repetition has received much attention in task-based research, few studies have examined how exact affects performance child second language learners. Also, little is known about impact on trade-off effects between linguistic areas among To help fill this gap, we investigated 40 Chinese EFL learners’ oral production. The children repeated same story-telling three times, a...

This study discusses the concept of virtual selves created in the virtual spaces [e.g. social network services or virtual reality (VR)]. It analyzes the activities in the different virtual spaces and claims that experience gained there can be transferred to real life. In respect to that, the effects of the VR treatment on the self as well as the concept of creating a life story are analyzed as ...

Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (e.g., deictic, iconic) from a very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This study investigated the use of stroke-defined non-referential ‘beat’ gestures in a story-retelling and an exposition task by twelve 6-year-olds, an age at which proficiency in discourse is beginning to de...

SV sentences with unaccusative verbs like The leaf fell involve movement from object to subject position. This line of studies tested whether young children can produce this movement and whether they represent SV sentences with unaccusatives as derived by movement. In Hebrew, unaccusatives appear in both SV and VS orders. This optionality allows for the testing of the acquisition of object-to-s...

Automatically assessing the fidelity of a retelling to the original narrative – a task of growing clinical importance – is challenging, given extensive paraphrasing during retelling along with cascading automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors. We present a word tagging approach using conditional random fields that allows a diversity of features to be considered during inference, including som...

The story of Israel and its raison d’être are suffused by memories the Holocaust, which construct self-definition identity state. This article examines works three contemporary Israeli women artists—Dvora Morag, Miri Nishri, Bracha Ettinger—who subvert traditional telling history enable rethinking past as basis for individual’s existence in nation Through these artists, official memory disinteg...

   The aim of our article is a brief literary analysis Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) by Irish writer John Boyne. We tried to show how well text fits genre fable as author his work himself. Also, whether this good vessel pour there Holocaust, one most dreadful events twenetieth century. highlighted narration technique writer- retelling story third person, though it read if were wri...

We present the first child emotional speech corpus in Russian, called “EmoChildRu”, which contains audio materials of 3-7 year old kids. The database includes over 20K recordings (approx. 30 hours), collected from 100 children. Recordings were carried out in three controlled settings by creating different emotional states for children: playing with a standard set of toys; repetition of words fr...