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Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial I…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2015, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in June 2015.The 15 regular papers and 12 short papers presented together with 8 papers from the Graduate Student Symposium were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such a…
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- 978-3-319-18356-5
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- XXI, 361
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2015, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2015. The 31 full papers and 20 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, also included…
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- 978-3-319-24027-5
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- 110 illustrations in colour
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Evolving Computability 11th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2015,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2015, held in Bucharest, Romania, in June/July 2015. The 26 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions and included together with 10 invited papers in this proceedings. The conference CiE 2015 has six special sessions: two sessions, Representing Streams…
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- 978-3-319-20028-6
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- 20 b/w illustrations
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Teaching And Researching The Pronunciation Of English
The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic. In accordance with the unifying theme of the volume, individual contributions investigate the characteristics of a foreign accent, its production and perception, study the development of methods and…
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- 978-3-319-11092-9
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- XV, 247
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Systems And Frameworks For Computational Morphology
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2015, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 2015. The 5 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The SFCM Workshops focus on linguistically motivated morphological analysis and generatio…
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- 978-3-319-23980-4
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- XIII, 185
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- Communications in Computer and Information Science
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Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script. It compares educational practices and philosophies in…
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- 978-981-10-0643-2
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- XIV, 185
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- Springer Texts in Education
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Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore
This collection of articles begins with an overview of the Reviews from past decades, then goes on to describe the current practices, and foretells the possible future developments. This is followed by a discussion of the use of ICT and surveys on several professional aspects of teaching, including teachers’ training needs and perception of student difficulties, assessment literacy, familiari…
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- 978-981-10-0123-9
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- XIII, 193
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- 370 SOH t
Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs:A framework for exploring bilingual…
This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students’ bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence bilingual identity development – sociocultural connection, investment and interaction. The cas…
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- 1
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- 978-981-10-1212-9
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- XV
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Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each reg…
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- 978-94-017-9352-0
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- XVII, 258
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- Multilingual Education
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Transition and Transgression
This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity. A particularly attractive aspect of this study is the focus on young adult literature and its place in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as its potential use in the classroom and lecture hall. Intersecting these two topics provides a compelling lens for refocusing debate on …
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- 978-3-319-25534-7
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- VI, 120
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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