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Title: Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, You Can Now Chat with Historical Figures: Shakespeare, Einstein, Austen, Socrates & More
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This article highlights the platform Character.ai and how it can be utilized to allow users to chat with facsimiles of a wide variety of historical figures. Bots on the platform have been trained using articles, news stories, books, and other digital texts, primarily in English. Teachers might find this article useful if they are looking for tools to use with learners for genre study, for the acquisition of 21st century skills and the application of digital tools, or for encouraging inquiry into how the use or influence of technology affects one’s views of historical figures and language.
Source: Open Culture
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Title: Using the HSK as a Roadmap to Learning Chinese
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Visit: https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-the-hsk-as-a-roadmap-to-learning-chinese/
This blog post discusses the pros and cons of learners using the standardized HSK test as a blueprint for how one should learn Chinese, especially given the prominence of the test as both a reference in learning materials and an access point to education and employment opportunities. While the article suggests that the test can provide useful snapshots of learners’ current abilities (especially in receptive skills), it recognizes that, like most standardized tests, the HSK does not prepare learners with real-world communicative skills. Learners who are required to take this test, along with those looking to better self-define their own benchmarks and goals, would find this resource useful in helping think through what studying to this test will, and won’t, prepare them to do.
From: https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-the-hsk-as-a-roadmap-to-learning-chinese/
Source: Hacking Chinese
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Title: Pragmalinguistic Variation in L2 Learners’ E-Requests to Faculty: Looking at Degree of Imposition
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Read research about rank of imposition!
From: https://doi.org/10.22051/lghor.2020.30297.1256
Abstract: “Politeness plays an important role in initiated e-mail requests sent from students to faculty. One such feature of requests susceptible to politeness is the degree of imposition, which is one of the important variables in speech act production. Although the literature on requests is abundant, there are few studies on low- and high-imposition requests, in general, and on Iranian L2 learners’ low- and high-imposition requests, in particular. Through analyzing L2 learners’ requests, this study was an attempt to explore the distribution of pragmalinguistic means when writing English e-mail requests with low- and high degrees of imposition. For the purpose of this study, a corpus of 208 e-mail requests was collected for a rigorous qualitative analysis. The e-requests were classified into 4 categories: information, validation, feedback, and action. They were, then, coded and analyzed. It appeared that, though similar in many ways, the distribution of request type, openings, head act strategies, and internal and external modifiers were relatively conditioned by the degree of imposition. The findings can have valuable resources for future studies of potential interlanguage pragmatics studies, which are concerned with L2 learners’ performance and pragmatic competence in L2 learning.”
Visit: https://doi.org/10.22051/lghor.2020.30297.1256
Source: Mahmood Hashemian & Maryam Farhang-Ju (2020), Journal of Language Horizons
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Title: InterCom: Announcing a Pause
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Title: InterCom: Announcing a Pause
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Title: InterCom: Announcing a Pause
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Title: InterCom: Announcing a Pause
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Title: Countdown to a Reimagined InterCom
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Title: InterCom 3.0
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Title: Announcing InterCom 3.0
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Are you as excited as we are for InterCom 3.0? Just check us out at the most recent planning meeting!
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See you with all that is new and wonderful on April 27. In the meantime, keep interacting with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.
Source: CASLS
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