Many scholars view translations of the Chinese classics as inevitably lacking fidelity to “original,” asserting language difference a fundamental impediment cross-cultural understanding. The present study disputes this viewpoint by employing perspective Global Laozegetics. This notion affirms continuity between native Laozi or Daodejing commentarial tradition and its corresponding foreign trans...

Sustainable development of multicultural communities affected by translingualism has gained a special importance with the recognition mixed languages within framework ecolinguistical methodology, which considers language as ecosystems. The paper aims at ecolinguistic analysis relationship between and its environment. study implies dual nature ecology (physiological social) fact that depends on ...

One of the basic documents defining, among others, language learning, teaching, and assessment within EU is CEFR (2001). Since moment its first publication, many political social changes have occurred which necessitated reshaping general teaching policy to meet new conditions. There also appeared theoretical reflections on process learning use. Through enhanced mobility a remarkable number Euro...

In an ideal cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system, a user query would generate a search over documents in a different language and the relevant results would be presented in the user’s language. In practice, CLIR systems are typically evaluated by judging result relevance in the document language, to factor out the effects of translating the results using machine translation (MT). I...

Abstract The research field of English as a lingua franca (ELF) is concerned with global communication among users, in which most often part, not the whole, their communicative repertoires. ‘The notion multilingua (EMF) repositions within multilingualism to foreground multilingual situations, influences, and practices inherent encounters (Jenkins, 2015). This paper attempts further theoretical ...

Critical computing approaches to K-12 computer science education aim promote justice in and the wider world. Despite being intertwined with inequitable power dynamics computing, issues of linguistic (in)justice have received less attention critical computing. In this article, I draw on theoretical ideas from sociolinguistics analyze qualitative data collected technology-integrated language huma...