This paper presents a multi-scale retrieval approach in MEI (Mandarin-English Information), an English-Chinese cross-lingual spoken document retrieval (CL-SDR) system. It accepts an entire English news story (from newspaper text) as the input query, and automatically retrieves "relevant" Mandarin news stories (from broadcast audio). This allows the user to search for personally relevant content...

The world has been growing more globalised, people have moving and absorbing different cultural peculiarities. Now intercultural perspective might seem insufficient to describe the extent which local cultures identities are linked globally. As a result, language contact communication between across changing. present paper aims at studying modern RussianAmerican fiction from transcultural perspe...


 Translanguaging has become a particularly relevant (and controversial) concept for the field of bilingual education, with concrete implications teacher preparation programs serving candidates (TCs) who may identify as heritage speakers Spanish. However, regard and understanding translanguaging, its pedagogical potential, positionality to implement it are not evenly distributed among stak...

Translingualism is a term from Steven G. Kellman (2000) and David Schwarzer et al. (2006), who see teaching an L2 as bridge building between languages that allow one to retain a unified mind and not be cloven into two for the sake of being multilingual. Thus, in contrast to multilingualism, translingualism stresses the process and not the goal. Classrooms where students come from two or more di...

Most D/HH learners experience language deprivation because they lack full access to a comprehensible input. Sometimes, this continues through school of the rigid policy and teachers’ failure recognize include all linguistic repertoires which bring. Like many other teacher education programs, some Deaf preparation programs have adopted assimilationist ideologies, subtractive approaches bilingual...