This study examines the mathematics achievement of Latino native English speakers compared to non-native English speakers in U.S. high schools. We specifically focus on how academic tracking can influence mathematics achievement and, at the same time, whether having access to a mathematics teaching with specialized training in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) students can help mitiga...

The implementation of modern information technologies in education presents a promising direction the pedagogical science since it makes possible to prove educational services through specialized environment – combination resources, technical devices, and telecommunication channels enabling exchange at distance. goal present study is analyze identify opportunities Moodle platform as whole study...

Abstract Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has a long tradition in European countries, especially primary secondary education. In this paper we draw attention to the limited use of term higher education, at (post-)graduate level. By describing discussing course entirely taught English students program titled Education for Science Brazil, authors expect contribute broader understan...

This paper presents an approach that extends the standard approach used for bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora. We focus on the problem associated to polysemous words found in the seed bilingual lexicon when translating source context vectors. To improve the adequacy of context vectors, the use of a WordNetbased Word Sense Disambiguation process is tested. Experimental results...

We present a language complexity analysis of World of Warcraft (WoW) community texts, which we compare to texts from a general corpus of web English. Results from several complexity types are presented, including lexical diversity, density, readability and syntactic complexity. The language of WoW texts is found to be comparable to the general corpus on some complexity measures, yet more specia...

GeLaBa means Générateur de Langage à Balises (in French), i.e. Markup Language Generator in English. It is a framework build upon a language called GML (GML stands for GeLaBa Markup Language) used to define classes of XML documents. Starting from a language definition in GML, GeLaBa provides a collection of tools to automatically generate a complete specialized infrastructure to handle this spe...

This poster reports on the developmental phase of a new internet-based support services (ICSS) for Chinese caregivers of people with Alzheimer Disease (AD): a specialized email application and an informational website. Bilingual Chinese caregivers wanted internet-based information in both Chinese and English. Usability testing and heuristic evaluation results revealed that the interface success...

In this paper we describe the methodology and the first steps for the creation of WNTERM (from WordNet and Terminology), a specialized lexicon produced from the merger of the EuroWordNet-based Multilingual Central Repository (MCR) and the Basic Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Science and Technology (BDST). As an example, the ecology domain has been used. The final result is a multilingual (Basque a...

In this paper, we describe our multilingual (or cross-linguistic) information browsing and retrieval system, which is aimed at monolingual users who are interested in information from multiple language sources. The system takes advantage of information extraction (IE) technology in novel ways to improve the accuracy o f cross-linguistic retrieval and to provide innovative methods for browsing a...