Multidimensional (MD) analysis contributes to a comprehensive linguistic description of second language (L2) writing texts. However, cross-linguistic studies based on MD are still insufficient and need be increased. In particular, the unavailability comparable corpora prevents current MD-based L2 research from making reliable comparisons differences between native writers learners. Considering ...

The objective of this work is to design and implement a didactic proposal aimed at strengthening the communicative competence Spanish Pedagogy students based on genre-based writing and, in addition, supported by contributions neuroeducation, particularly executive functions. For purpose, was carried out using guidelines that emerge from Gender Theory, one hand, considering some key elements pro...

This chapter examines thirty blogs for women engineers from a multimodal perspective, offering new ways of analysing their content and communicative strategies. The qualitative study focuses on how the interplay different modes such as image, writing, typography colour can be handled interpersonal ideational realizations are construed. final aim is to unravel relevant meaning-making practices u...

not take the place of a standardized logistic regression coefficient for valuating the strength of the influences of the independent variables on the dependent variable, relative to one another.” The strength of each independent variable cannot be judged based on the magnitude of the OR, so that a larger OR for one independent variable might not have a stronger association than a smaller OR for...

Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of ...

People use visual and spatial cues when sharing information in a workspace, be it physical or virtual. Characteristics of the information and the space, as well as the tools available for manipulation of the information alter the communicative practices that emerge during a collaborative task. The Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB) is a visual information workspace supporting the collection, organi...

The Communication Matrix [20] is an assessment instrument that is designed to evaluate the expressive communication skills of children with severe and multiple disabilities. It accommodates any type of communicative behavior, including forms of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) such as picture systems, electronic devices, sign language and 3-dimensional symbols; pre-symbolic comm...

As the amount of information available to people multiplies at an increasing speed, it becomes ever more important to deliver information customised to users’ specific needs. Natural Language Generation systems coupled with user modeling techniques have been built to address this issue, to produce information that is relevant to the users . A common approach adopted by such systems is an approa...