User-aware multilingual abusive content detection in social media

Despite growing efforts to halt distasteful content on social media, multilingualism has added a new dimension to this problem. The scarcity of resources makes the challenge even greater when it comes to low-resource languages. This work focuses on providing a novel method for abusive content detection in multiple low-resource Indic languages. Our observation indicates that a post’s tendency to attract abusive comments, as well as features such as user history and social context, significantly aid in the detection of abusive content. The proposed method first learns social and text context features in two separate modules. The integrated representation from these modules is learned and used for the final prediction. To evaluate the performance of our method against different classical and state-of-the-art methods, we have performed extensive experiments on SCIDN and MACI datasets consisting of 1.5M and 665K multilingual comments, respectively. Our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art baseline methods with an average increase of 4.08% and 9.52% in the F1-score on SCIDN and MACI datasets, respectively.     

Training confident primary modern foreign language teachers in England: An investigation into preservice teachers’ perceptions of their subject knowledge

The National Languages Strategy, published in the UK in 2002 offers all primary school children an entitlement to learn a Modern Foreign Language (MFL) by 2010. The supply of adequately trained teachers is one of the key determinants of the success of this initiative. This paper presents findings from a study involving 18 teacher education institutions offering a primary MFL specialism, focusing particularly on the preservice teachers’ confidence in their own subject knowledge. A compulsory component of the specialism is a month of practicum abroad and this article explores the potential benefits and difficulties associated with this experience, as reported by the preservice teachers through questionnaires and focus groups.     

大学生外语自主学习研究综述

自主学习是当前大学外语教学和研究的重要课题之一。外语自主学习的心理学基础包括人本主义的以学习者为中心、社会学习理论、信息加工理论和学习动机等。文章从梳理外语自主学习的概念出发,引出自主学习的一个核心概念,即"学习者自主",并提出外语自主学习的维度。当前外语自主学习研究主要集中在外语自主学习能力的培养和自主学习策略运用,网络环境下外语自主学习的优点与存在的问题等方面。随着现代信息技术的运用,教师在大学生外语自主学习中地位将如何转变,以及自主学习与课堂教学结合的程度和方式等将受到广泛关注。     

论多维语言在健美操教学中的应用

健美操教学多以身教为主，该项目的特殊性决定了其教学语言的多维性。本文论述了在健美操教学中多维语言及几个常用语言的概念、意义及应用。     

How can ICT contribute to the learning of foreign languages by pupils with SEN?

In this article Lynne Meiring and Nigel Norman focus on the notion of entitlement and the demands this has made on schools and teachers to cater for the needs of a wide range of pupils previously denied an experience of foreign languages. In order to enable all pupils to realise their potential, facilities and strategies have to be reviewed and developed to ensure that their learning experience is appropriate. This article focuses on the contribution that one such facility, namely information and communications technology (ICT), can make towards removing some of the barriers to learning experienced by some pupils, enabling them to realise some of the benefits of what has often been perceived as a particularly inaccessible curricular area. The authors examine how the generic capability of ICT can enhance and enable the learning of pupils with special educational needs (SEN), but do not purport to consider specifically the specialised technology required for certain manifestations of special need.     

Automatic extraction of bilingual word pairs using inductive chain learning in various languages

In this paper, we propose a new learning method for extracting bilingual word pairs from parallel corpora in various languages. In cross-language information retrieval, the system must deal with various languages. Therefore, automatic extraction of bilingual word pairs from parallel corpora with various languages is important. However, previous works based on statistical methods are insufficient because of the sparse data problem. Our learning method automatically acquires rules, which are effective to solve the sparse data problem, only from parallel corpora without any prior preparation of a bilingual resource (e.g., a bilingual dictionary, a machine translation system). We call this learning method Inductive Chain Learning (ICL). Moreover, the system using ICL can extract bilingual word pairs even from bilingual sentence pairs for which the grammatical structures of the source language differ from the grammatical structures of the target language because the acquired rules have the information to cope with the different word orders of source language and target language in local parts of bilingual sentence pairs. Evaluation experiments demonstrated that the recalls of systems based on several statistical approaches were improved through the use of ICL.     

‘So she has been educated by a vulgar,silly, conceited French governess!’ Social anxieties,satirical portraits,and the eighteenth‐century French instructor

Maria Edgeworth’s pedagogical short stories ‘Mademoiselle Panache’ (1800, 1801) and ‘The Good French Governess’ (1801) portray contrasting French instructors, and illustrate a transformation in English girls’ education in French at the end of the eighteenth century. While ‘Mademoiselle Panache’ looks back to the disingenuous French instructors of eighteenth‐century comedy, demonstrating English anxieties about the supposedly corrupting influence of the French on young girls, ‘The Good French Governess’ shows the positive influence of French émigrés in late eighteenth‐century French instruction. In contrast to critical assumptions that the English public’s outraged response to the French Revolution terminated English interest in all things French, these and other contemporary texts show that English girls’ education in French was not diminished by anti‐Jacobin attitudes, and indeed flourished into the nineteenth century.     

人类学差异对中西视阈及语序的影响

中西空间范畴语序的差异,反映了中西初民对于空间感知过程的认知生理和心理差异。在中西空间范畴语序差异的表象之下,有多种多样的理据,但在这些理据当中,体质人类学因素是先验的、核心而刚性的理据,而文化因素则是后成的、柔性的、非本质的理据。体质人类学层面上的差异直接导致不同的空间感知,最终形成不同的空间范畴词汇语序语言认知模式。忽视了体质人类学理据这个根源的重要性,就无法看透空间范畴词汇语序差异表象之本质。     

京师同文馆教习述论

京师同文馆创办伊始即延聘汉洋教习入馆。他们不仅承担教学及管理工作,还开设了汉文及西方自然和人文社科课程。从教育背景、社会经历、工作态度、人才培养、教育成效等方面考察,多数教习具有较高的近代文化素养和专业能力,对中国近代教育事业乃至中国近代化作出了贡献。     

“十三五”图情档学科进展:外文期刊论文解析

[目的/意义]对图书情报领域的国际发文情况、研究热点以及学科前沿进行研究,有助于推动图情学科的发展,提升我国学术话语权.[方法/过程]以SCI和SSCI收录的图书情报领域高影响力外文期刊论文为数据源,利用HistCite、CiteSpace、SPSS等工具从研究现状、高影响力学者、高被引论文、研究热点、前沿趋势5个方面...