Extensive Reading and the Writing Ability of EFL Learners: the Effect of Group Work

doi:10.13187/ejced.2020.4.726

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“…Cooperation with scientists from Russia during the pandemic in 2020 also brought interesting outputs in the publishing house Springer Nature [23,24]. Publications created on the basis of cooperation with Iranian scientists have been published in several databased journals [25][26][27][28]. The philosopher, Assoc.…”

Section: Selected Publication Outputs Of Ukf Staff With Foreign Researchersmentioning

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How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia

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The paper outlines the adverse consequences and challenges induced by COVID-19 pandemic for the whole world and for universities in particular. The example of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra illustrates the difficulties and challenges caused by the pandemic in relation to the two main activities arising from the university mission-teaching and research. It presents some particular aspects of the university activities adversely affected by COVID-19 and shares the measures to minimize the resulted damages. Furthermore, it demonstrates that, despite complications induced by COVID-19, teaching, research, and international cooperation have been successfully continued.

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Section: Selected Publication Outputs Of Ukf Staff With Foreign Researchersmentioning

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How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia

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“…P. 218) claims that texts with predominantly informative function are structured at semo-syntactic level. The aim of the translation is to convey overall and complete content, considering dominant standards of reader's culture (Azizi et al, 2020;Khonamri et al, 2020).…”

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Human-Computer Interaction in Translation Activity: Fluency of Machine Translation

Welnitzová

Jakubickova

Králik

2021

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Psihol. pedagog.

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Digitalization is one of the key distinctive features of modern environment and social life. Nowadays more and more functions are transferred to the artificial mind. How effective is the replacement of human activity with computer activity? In the given article, this problem is solved by an example of integration of digital technologies into translation activities. It this paper, emphasis is placed on the quality of machine translation (MT) output of legal texts in the language pair English - Slovak. It studies a Criminal Code formulated in the Slovak language which was translated by a human translator into English and consequently via machine translation system Google Translate (GT) back into Slovak. The back-translation - translation of a translated text back into its original language - as a quality assessment tool to detect discrepancies, mistranslations and inevitable differences between the source text and the target text was used. The quality of MT output was evaluated according to Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) standards with the focus on the dimension of Fluency. The multiple comparisons were applied to determine which issues (errors) in Fluency dimension differ from the others. A statistically significant difference is noticed between Agreement and other issues, as well as between Ambiguity and other issues. The errors in Agreement are related to the differences between the languages: English is considered mostly an analytic language, Slovak represents a synthetic language. The issues in the Ambiguity dimension correlate with the type of the text being examined, since legal texts are characterized by relatively complicated wording and numerous terms; moreover, accuracy and unambiguity need to be preserved. Generally, the MT output is able to provide users with basic information about the text. On the other hand, most of the segments need revision and/or correction; in such cases, human intervention and post-editing is necessary.

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“…Homework assignments may be short or long, or they can differentiate in both the frequency and length of individual assignments. They contribute to the building of "individual competencies and group work activity" (Azizi et al, 2021a) as well as to the development of "the academic collaboration, which is proving to be necessary especially in the present, when teaching cannot be provided in person due to COVID-19 restrictions" (Pavlíková et al, 2021;Tvrdoň et al, 2021;Azizi et al, 2021b) which brought "drastic changes that occurred in everyday life of every human being" (Ionescu et al, 2021). A lot of questions may appear dealing with the quality of distance education, both of teaching and learning via the latest technologies, for example via social media platforms (Tkáčová et al 2021b;Tkáčová et al 2021c) or via mobile technologies (Al-Rahmi et al, 2021), whether students know how to learn efficiently in this manner.…”

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To Do or Not to Do: EFL Learners’ Perception on and Practice of Homework Assignment

2022

European Journal of Contemporary Education

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Homework assignments have been explored from several different perspectives over the past few years. Learners' views and their practice of homework have been explored in different disciplines. This study attempted to explore English language learners' perception on and their practice of homework throughout a term of study. To this end, 110 adult male and female EFL learners agreed to participate in this study. Questionnaires and subsequent semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. SPSS Software was used to analyze the questionnaire data and content analysis was used for the interviews using content analysis. The results showed that students had a positive perception towards homework assignments. Moreover, the results also revealed that learners had certain difficulties in doing homework assignments. They stated that mostly the difficulties are due to some specific reasons namely not learning the required concept, not knowing the instruction, not enjoying the homework, not paying attention, not understanding homework instruction, anxiety and stress of homework. The results offer a number of pedagogical implications for teachers, curriculum developers, and managers of language institutions.

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Extensive Reading and the Writing Ability of EFL Learners: the Effect of Group Work

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia

How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia

Human-Computer Interaction in Translation Activity: Fluency of Machine Translation

To Do or Not to Do: EFL Learners’ Perception on and Practice of Homework Assignment

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