An efficient model of hyper textual authoring processes and guidelines for electronic multi-media educational and scientific resources’ development in Philology is being discussed. The model was successfully applied for construction of the interactive hyper-media elearning Web-resource "Russian Dialectal Phonetics". The electronic public educational and research resource in Russian Dialectology...

From a linguistic perspective the development of orthography for a language is often taken as a scientific endeavor involving the adoption of a set of graphic conventions for mapping the phonemic system of a language. In this paper I unpack how orthography development and use is necessarily wrapped up in sociopolitical debates. Approaching orthography graphically, I demonstrate how spelling its...

The emerging trend of social software technology can address many different second language (L2) learner needs through authentic social interaction and a variety of scaffolding processes. Social software connects education with real‐life learning and interests, and engages and motivates students. It can facilitate learning environments that are more learner‐centre...

The article deals with special aspects of Arabic Teaching in Tatar schools and madrasas at the end of XIX – beginning of XX centuries in the light of Arabic textbooks preserved up modern times. The author investigates continuity of Arabic Linguistic traditions in writing and publishing books on Arabic Grammar for Tatars. Tatar teachers of Arabic tried to find their own approach to an educationa...

There is a general belief among researchers and speakers at conferences and symposia that Arab EFL Learners are primarily responsible for their weak writing performance. Educational policies usually evade criticism. This study is an attempt to show that educational policies can have their role in the learner’s writing problems. Viz. it posits that for the most part writing problems can be cause...

The article proves that formation of foreign-language communicative competence is one the core objectives teaching Russian as a foreign language. author complex construct which includes linguistic, substantive, and pragmatic competences. Preparatory departments are to create an educational model would provide competence.

Metadata plays an important role in online repositories with learning resources, since it can make search, retrieval and access faster, easier and more effective. In this context, a variety of reasons urge using a recognized metadata standard such as IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM). When particularly developing a repository with learning resources for agricultural and rural stakeholders, it...

This paper describes the system developed by the UBham team for the SemEval2014 Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis task (Task 4). We present an approach based on deep linguistic processing techniques and resources, and explore the parameter space of these techniques applied to the different stages in this task and examine possibilities to exploit interdependencies between them.

This study investigates the Voice Onset Time (VOT) of stop consonant production in six bilingual English-Arabic children in order to examine whether bilingual children possess one unitary or two separate linguistic systems. A total of six English-Arabic bilingual children participated ages 5 to 10. English and Arabic stop consonants followed by a vowel /a/ made by bilingual children were measur...