how do english as a lingua franca (elf) speakers achieve multimodal cohesion on the basis of their specific interests and cultural backgrounds? from a dialogic and collaborative view of communication, this study focuses on how verbal and nonverbal modes cohere together during intercultural conversations. the data include approximately 160-minute transcribed video recordings of elf interactions ...

Community service is the practical implementation of science, technology, art, and culture directly into society aimed at helping a particular community in various activities without expecting anything return. In 2022, English Language Literature study program lecturers held an Conversation Workshop on Like Dislike children Ar-Ridho Orphanage, Depok, West Java. The purpose this workshop to impr...

This research article studied the challenges Afghan engineering undergraduate students faced with apostrophe s in their conversations. For this purpose, 10 (7 male and 3 female) from different departments of Computer Science faculty Kabul polytechnic University were selected as informants research. All interviewed, recorded data was analyzed. It finally found out that experienced problems usage...

Code-mixing and code-switching are frequent features in online conversations. Classification of such text is challenging if one the languages low-resourced. Fine-tuning pre-trained multilingual language models a promising avenue for code-mixed classification. In this paper, we explore adapter-based fine-tuning PMLMs CMCS We introduce sequential parallel stacking adapters, continuous training ad...

this study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used elt textbooks, three british and three american. applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (cda), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. results suggest that in terms of content, british textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

This case study explores the experiences of nine female-identifying feminist public educators working with Ontario, Canada, sexual assault centres who regularly facilitate discussions about consent and gender-based violence in schools, post-secondary institutions, community workshops. The discuss their adaptation “inoculations” for inspiring transformative learning audiences, ways which practic...