Singapore's bilingual policy legitimises English not only as the language of governmental administration and interethnic communication, but also as the medium of instruction in all schools on all levels and across all subjects except mother tongues (MTs). As a result of these politics of language...
[arXiv] Taiyi: A bilingual fine-tuned large language model for diverse biomedical tasks.[Paper][Code] [Github] Visual med-alpaca: A parameter-efficient biomedical llm with visual capabilities.[Code] [arXiv] Ophglm: Training an ophthalmology large languageand-vision assistant based on instructions...
Only a small number of studies have investigated this issue and they identified the linguistic differences between English and Korean, cultural differences, Korean learners' characteristics and students' low levels of motivation as the four main challenges. In order to extend this work, this study ...
The bilingual website bp.com/caspian provides information on our activities in Azerbaijan and the region and remains an important means of interaction with the public. The website received an average of more than 820 visits every day during the year. We also received 1,483 enquiries through ...
The genre of the writing task is also an important factor to consider in relation to EAL children’s writing performance. Some have argued that bilingual children may experience particular difficulty in understanding and writing nonfiction academic texts such as expository or persuasive texts (Riches ...
Traditional teaching methods may not be sufficient to address the unique needs of all learners. For instance, Mongolian-speaking students may face additional hurdles in acquiring English proficiency compared to their Han Chinese counterparts, requiring tailored pedagogical approaches that i...
BLEU (BiLingual Evaluation Understudy) Score: Each word in the output sentence is scored 1 if it appears in either of the reference sentences and a 0 if it does not. Further the number of words that appeared in one of the reference translations is divided by the total number of words in...
the findings related to the sources of the informants’ language-related difficulties, the motivating factors for language learning on the job, the role of professional identity in dealing with workplace communication challenges and the unique challenges arising from the bilingual/multilingual workplace....
bilingual dictionaries published throughout the 19th century were, indeed, dedicated to Cantonese. Given the important role of Cantonese in the context of the encounter between China and the West, it is perhaps no surprising that the first Cantonese corpus was a bilingual one. Wu (1994) ...
to be taught how to master skills and strategies and realize the importance of certain values; but he/she also needs to have a willingness to do so, to engage in professional development, to want to learn from the learners, and to consistently undergo an evaluation of his or her own appro...