Essays about: "english language and computer"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 74 essays containing the words english language and computer.

  1. 1. Teaching pronunciation effectively in an EFL classroom; a literature review

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM)

    Author : My Olsson; Alice Osborne; [2024]
    Keywords : effective teaching; English as a Foreign Language; intelligibility; secondary education; pronunciation;

    Abstract : This study provides a literature review of the most effective ways to teach pronunciation to EFL secondary school students in Sweden. There is limited time allocated to pronunciation leading to a scarcity of available effective methods. This impacts the important role which intelligibility holds in pronunciation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Dare. Dream. Done. [Sparkles emoji] : Pragmatic functions and sentiment of emojis in tweets by American, English, Australian, Indian, and Nigerian users

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Kristoffer Olsén; [2024]
    Keywords : ambiguity; computer-mediated communication; cyberpragmatics; emoji; emoji usage pattern; national variety; pragmatics; sentiment; tweets; användningsmönster för emojis; attityd; cyberpragmatik; datorförmedlad kommunikation; emoji; nationell variation; pragmatik; tvetydighet; tweets;

    Abstract : Emojis can be ambiguous, even when used within one and the same language and geographic region, but they are also a globally accessible language in computer-mediated communication. This paper aims to examine if emoji usage across five different national varieties of English (American, English, Australian, Indian, and Nigerian), geographically located on five different continents, exhibits similar pragmatic functionality and sentiment. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Class of Us: A Study Across Several Schools in Sweden Comparing the EFL Comprehension of Playing the Video Game The Last of Us Versus Viewing the Television Adaptation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Robert Bång; Simon Torffvit; Anton Grandi; [2023]
    Keywords : Comparative; Comparative Study; Quantitative; English; EFL; English as a Foreign Language; SLA; Second Language Acquisition; Comprehension; Test; Video Games; Video Game; CALL; Computer assisted language learning; The Last of Us; TLoU; The Last of Us: Remastered; Naughty Dog; PlayStation; HBO; Home Box Office; Game; Games; Computer Games; Skolverket; Upper Secondary School; Gymnasiet; Gymnasieskolan; Sweden; Control Group; Immersion; Multimodality; Interactivity; Interactive; Television; Television series; Media; Audiovisual media; Audiovisual; Large-scale; Gender; Program; Video Game Literacy; Game Literacy; Narrative; Educational; Serious Games; Mature; Problem of Content; Attitudinal; Survey; Likert-scale; Likert; Interventionist; Narratology; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Contemporary English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms in upper secondary schools in Sweden make frequent use of receptive media such as movies and television to facilitate language learning. The more interactive medium of video games is seldom used for the same purpose, despite previous research indicating that the added layer of interactivity can bring benefits such as improvements to vocabulary, written production and reading comprehension. READ MORE

  5. 4. Generating Wikipedia Articles with Grammatical Framework : A Case Study

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Keivan Matinzadeh; [2023]
    Keywords : Grammatical Framework; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Generation; Computer Science; Grammatical Framework; Beräkningslingvistik; Textgenerering; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : Natural language generation is a method used to produce understandable texts in human languages from data [1]. Grammatical Framework is a grammar formalism and a functional programming language using a nonstatistical approach to build natural language applications. READ MORE

  6. 5. Multi-modal Models for Product Similarity : Comparative evaluation of unimodal and multi-modal architectures for product similarity prediction and product retrieval

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Christos Frantzolas; [2023]
    Keywords : Computer Vision; Natural Language Processing; Representation Learning; Metric Learning; Multimodal Retrieval; Bildigenkänning; Språkteknologi; Representationsinlärning; Metrisk inlärning; Multimodal informationssökning;

    Abstract : With the rapid growth of e-commerce, enabling effective product recommendation systems and improving product search for shoppers plays a crucial role in driving customer satisfaction. Traditional product retrieval approaches have mainly relied on unimodal models focusing on text data. READ MORE