Tim Coughlan, University at Bath; work is focused on the design and evaluation of systems that support inclusion, creativity, and openness in learning.

Interesting, Luhmann recommends to know many languages so as to prevent the pitfalls of translational errors in conveying meaning when it is to read translated books. So read books in their original language.

https://www.icongrouponline.com/en/Search/Classic/Webster's%20Welsh%20Thesaurus%20Edition

This morning I ran across a copy of Jane Austen's novel Emma with some of the keywords on each page translated into Welsh as footnotes at the bottom of the page. Apparently it's part of a series of classic books published by Icon into a variety of different languages and meant for language learners.

The full list of their titles with Welsh can be found here: Webster's Welsh Thesaurus Editions

I'm curious if anyone has used these before, and if so, how helpful they've found them for building their Welsh vocabulary as they read English language works.

Is anyone aware of Welsh language books that have this sort of English vocabulary cross listed on the page? (Sort of the way in which lingo.360.cymru has news stories in Welsh with English translation help along the way?)

syndication link: https://en.forum.saysomethingin.com/t/websters-welsh-thesaurus-editions/40131

スアッド su – Japanese Update - 3 Months | Refold/ Immersion Learning {YouTube}

site:: [[YouTube]] channel:: スアッド su date:: 2021-12-21 url:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUi6gO9Ip8 accessed:: 2023-12-20

Wu, Prabhumoye, Yeon Min, Bisk, Salakhutdinov, Azaria, Mitchell and Li. "SPRING: GPT-4 Out-performs RL Algorithms byStudying Papers and Reasoning". Arxiv preprint arXiv:2305.15486v2, May, 2023.

Original Paper for discussion of the Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback algorithm.

GPT-2 Introduction paper

Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners A. Radford, J. Wu, R. Child, D. Luan, D. Amodei, and I. Sutskever, (2019).

GPT-3 introduction paper

"Are Pre-trained Convolutions Better than Pre-trained Transformers?"

"Talking About Large Language Models" by Murray Shanahan

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/events/2022/princeton-machine-learning-and-future-philology-symposium

Was this recorded?

https://try.lingopie.com/

If I understand it correctly, with hyperaudio, one can also create transcription to somebody else's video or audio when embedded.

In that case, if you add to hyperaudio the annotation capablity of hypothes.is or docdrop, the vision outlined in the article on Global Knowledge Graph is already a reality.

https://maggieappleton.com/joining-ought

Interleaving (aka mixed practice or varied practice) is a learning strategy that involves mixing different topics, ideas, or forms of practice to improve outcomes as well as overall productivity. Its opposite and less effective strategy is blocking (or block study or specific practice) which focuses instead on working on limited topics or single forms of practice at the same time.

This may be one of the values of of the Say Something In Welsh method which interleaves various new nouns and verbs as well as verb tenses in focused practice.

Compare this with the block form which would instead focus on lists of nouns in a single session and then at a later time lists of verbs in a more rote fashion. Integrating things together in a broader variety requires more work, but is also much more productive in the long run.

misinterpreted-effort hypothesis: the amount of effort one puts into studying is inversely proportional to how much one feels they learn.

Is this why the Says Something In Welsh system works so well? Because it requires so much mental work and effort in short spans of time? Particularly in relation to Duolingo which seems easier?

infant word learning

visual objects are encoded into memory over a long period of time until it becomes familiar. When a word is spoken when the memory trace associated with the visual object is reactivated, connection between word and visual object is made rapidly.

List of Italian language learning resources from language learning forum.

https://www.unige.ch/callector/lara

example: https://www.issco.unige.ch/en/research/projects/callector/le_petit_prince_abc2vocabpages/hyperlinked_text.html

Kanero, J., & Aktan-Erciyes, A. (2021). Parental contributions to language development during the COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wvbjd

new tag?:

• understand why it is correct

tutorial article on BERT

Kartushina, N., Mani, N., AKTAN-ERCIYES, A., Alaslani, K., Aldrich, N. J., Almohammadi, A., … Mayor, J. (2021, March 5). COVID-19 first lockdown as a unique window into language acquisition: What you do (with your child) matters. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5ejwu

Kozlowski, Diego, Jennifer Dusdal, Jun Pang, and Andreas Zilian. ‘Semantic and Relational Spaces in Science of Science: Deep Learning Models for Article Vectorisation’. ArXiv:2011.02887 [Physics], 5 November 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02887.

What a cool idea!

first sighting: https://darkreader.org/help/en/

Kanero, J., & Aktan-Erciyes, A. (2020). Family and language development during COVID-19: The case of Turkey. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n7k8z

Just additional resources for the language learners.

Hull, T., Levine, J., Bantilan, N., Desai, A., & Majumder, M. S. (2020, August 13). Digital phenotyping of complex psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qtrpf

Kerzendorf, W. E., Patat, F., Bordelon, D., van de Ven, G., & Pritchard, T. A. (2020). Distributed peer review enhanced with natural language processing and machine learning. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1038-y

Hanauer (2012) contends that “language learning within these settings is defined overwhelmingly in linguistic, structural, and cognitive terms. Thus the language learner at the center of this system becomes nothing more than an intellectual entity involved in an assessable cognitive process” (p. 105). In this assessable cognitive instruction, students are not afforded the opportunity to use English as a social semiotic tool for expressing their own personal feelings (emotions), opinions, and stories as lived experience as well as for enacting social practices.

This article discusses the use of Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) technologies to teach English. Each stage of learning aligns with a level of computer technology. There are also many barriers that impede the process of integrating the CALL into the classroom, which include financial, access to hardware and software, teacher training, technical knowledge, and acceptance of technology.

RATING: 8/10

The different modes are extremely important in language learning.

extremely important when "negocioation of meaning" is at play

I found this very true for languages learners, specially foreign languages. The purpose of language is comunication, for a foreign language classroom, conections to real people gives meaning to the class and those connections would not be possible without the use of technology.

Cognitive skills vs Physical skills when learning languages

I hadn't thought about this aspect of discourse: not just the various context the content but of the experience of learning itself, how a teacher responds to student work, how that work is set up in the first place.

I think hypothes.is is particularly useful in relation to this type of context in the way it makes certain previously hidden aspects of learning visible...

I love this phrase but it also sees kind of paradoxical: cultivating authenticity?...

So is one example of this the teaching of vocabulary and grammar out of context of authentic reading and conversation?

Love this.

This is just what Naoko is doing by allowing students to choose their topics of research within the context of a language learning course.

Interesting.

Does this map to literary theory in any way?...

And all those layers can be visualized through annotation: vocabulary, cultural context...

Love that phrase.

Wow. Annotation fits quite nicely here as helping to visualize these layers in a slightly more user-friendly way than Escher.

Come on, "not-yet-ness" (Collier).

Everything is inter-related. Language cannot be learned out of context, out of community.

its true they need to preserve the languages so more ppl learn it and so it won't die

offering more instruction=more children to learn

That sounds good. I aim to get fluent this semester!