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Direct linkFlavin, Michael; Zhou Chen, Ting; Quintero, Valentina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have mission statements as a matter of course. This article analyses 127 mission statements from UK HEIs, comprising 76.048% of the mainstream UK higher education sector. The statements were divided into the categories of Russell Group; Other; and Specialist Institution. A mixed methods research approach was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Language Usage
Ströbel, Marcus; Kerz, Elma; Wiechmann, Daniel – Language Learning, 2020
Recent studies have uncovered substantial individual differences in first language (L1) language attainment across the lifespan and across multiple components of language. The existence of such variability raises the question of its role in second language (L2) learning. The existing body of research on L1-L2 relationships has primarily targeted…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Role, Writing (Composition)
Fitzgerald, Jill; Elmore, Jeff; Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Stenner, A. Jackson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Academic vocabulary networks were examined in 3 elementary grades textbook programs (first through fifth grade) in 3 domains--science, mathematics, and social studies. Within each program, a given network consisted of a focal domain-specific academic word and the collection of words from all grades that overlapped in meaning with the focal word.…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary Development, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
Burgers, Christian; Ahrens, Kathleen – Applied Linguistics, 2020
The literature provides diverging perspectives on the universality and stability of economic metaphors over time. This article contains a diachronic analysis of economic metaphors describing trade in a corpus of 225 years of US State of the Union addresses (1790-2014). We focused on two types of change: (i) replacement of a source domain by…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Economics, Computational Linguistics, Speeches
Chen, Eva E.; Ng, Cecilia Tsz Ki; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Yang, Bei; Harris, Paul L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
The early use of person perception terms was examined via an analysis of the spontaneous speech of four young children in conversation with their parents at home. All four children were producing such terms early in their third year. Like their parents, children used the terms in two distinguishable ways: to attribute a trait to a person or to…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Self Concept, Speech Communication, Parent Child Relationship
Download full textBajri, Ibtesam AbdulAziz; Lashkar, Nada Abdulmajeed – English Language Teaching, 2020
There are plentiful studies exploring gender emotional differences. Gender and emotion stereotypes make people believe that there are certain emotions associated with each gender and this is supported by many studies. The purpose of this research is to analyze the emotional expressions of Saudi men and women in Instagram, a social networking…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Gender Differences, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Anthony R. Vaughan – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Digital language data provide accessible and enduring records for world languages. While legacy data collections may offer new insights into small or endangered languages, their digitization can raise practical challenges in terms of navigating vast databases of files with limited metadata. This paper demonstrates the practical benefits of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation, Audio Equipment
Jan Strunk; Frank Seifart; Swintha Danielsen; Iren Hartmann; Brigitte Pakendorf; Søren Wichmann; Alena Witzlack-Makarevich; Balthasar Bickel – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
This paper explores the application of quantitative methods to study the effect of various factors on phonetic word duration in ten languages. Data on most of these languages were collected in fieldwork aiming at documenting spontaneous speech in mostly endangered languages, to be used for multiple purposes, including the preservation of cultural…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Word Frequency, Language Research, Computational Linguistics
David Beck; Paul Shannon – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
SLEXIL (Software Linking ELAN XML to Illuminated Language) is a web application designed to allow users to create animated HTML files from time-aligned transcriptions made in ELAN. Unlike earlier projects with similar goals, SLEXIL is a zero-installation web app developed strictly on user-centred principles, designed with the goal of transferring…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computational Linguistics, Language Minorities, Documentation
Samir, Aynaz; Motallebzadeh, Khalil – SAGE Open, 2023
The current master's curriculum in English Translation major in Iranian universities has not satisfied the demands of the society in which it was developed. Translation students have complained that some essential skills are not considered in the curriculum. Therefore, this study is aimed at proposing some guidelines for curriculum reformers in…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Curriculum, Comparative Education, English (Second Language)
Arsyad, Safnil; Madani; Pratiwi, Vika Armanda; An-Nashir, Abdullah Azzam; Erviona, Lussy; Hasiyanti; Marjelina, Oktasya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Authors should attract readers to read their articles from the very beginning of the article; this is important because readers will stop reading an article if they are not sure that they will obtain new, interesting and important information from the article. This study aims to investigate the rhetorical moves found in a research article abstract…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Authors, Discourse Analysis, Research Reports
Laosrirattanachai, Piyapong; Laosrirattanachai, Piyanuch – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The current study explored the vocabulary use and examined the rhetorical move structure of World Health Organization Emergencies Press Conferences on the Coronavirus Disease. Vocabulary use was described using a corpus of 140 press conferences containing 1,139,248 running words that was analysed based on three indicator variables: vocabulary…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocabulary Skills
Dobrego, Aleksandra; Konina, Alena; Mauranen, Anna – Language Awareness, 2023
We investigated how native and fluent users of English segment continuous speech and to what extent they use sound-related and structure-related cues. As suggested by the notion of multi-competence, L1 users are not seen as ideal models with perfect command of English, and L2 users not as lacking in competence. We wanted to see how language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Cues, Intonation
Audrin, Catherine – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Biodiversity education, as part of a broader environmental education is an important topic, not only for politicians, journalists but also teachers. In the educational context, it is now recognized that students have to be taught biodiversity, its conservation and how to use it in a durable. In this paper, we are interested in assessing how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Biodiversity
Gomes Junior, José Carmino; Dalila Corbari, Sandra; Kniess, Cláudia Terezinha; Nogueira da Silva, Gérsica Moraes; Piontkewicz, Simone Caroline; de Souza Melo, Maiara; Silveira Carbone, Amanda; Mantovaneli, Oklinger, Jr.; Martins Sobral, Maria do Carmo; Philippi Junior, Arlindo; Fernandez, Felipe; de Aguiar Dutra, Ana Regina; Birch, Robert Samuel; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aim to propose a methodological mapping approach for the evaluation of dissertations and theses of graduate programs in the area of environmental sciences in Brazil in relation to the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach: The research is characterized as exploratory with qualitative/quantitative…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Well Being, Correlation
