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The role of nativeness in early modern foreign language learning : evidence from teaching materials Universiteit Gent
In this article, we explore how the “ideal student” and “the ideal teacher” of a modern foreign language were depicted in 16th and 17th-century textbooks of the genre of so-called “dialogue books”. More specifically we assess in which areas language expertise was expected from students and teachers and how nativeness, i.e., being a native speaker, was construed as an element of this general expertise. Our insights are based on the structure and ...
Die Colloquia, et dictionariolum als Beispiel für 'Foreign Language Making' in der Frühen Neuzeit Universiteit Gent
In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit mehrsprachigen Lehrwerken, die sich im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert großer Beliebtheit erfreuten: den Gesprächsbüchern Colloquia, et dictionariolum, deren ursprüngliche Edition (1511) zweisprachig Französisch und Niederländisch war und deren Autor der Antwerpener Lehrer Noël van Berlaimont. Im Laufe von zwei Jahrhunderten erschienen ca. 150 Ausgaben, bei denen das Sprachangebot erweitert wurde, u. a. mit ...
Games with a purpose for the annotation of the Oral Sound Corpus of rural Spanish Universiteit Gent Universiteit Hasselt
The study of dialectal microvariation in spoken Spanish faces challenges due to the absence of an adequate morpho-syntactically annotated and parsed corpus. Therefore, this article introduces a novel technique, a game-based approach, for creating resources for non-standard Spanish language varieties. The article provides an overview of the progress in designing three Games With A Purpose (GWAPs) prototypes, to wit, Agentes, Tesoros, and ...
Teachers as foreign Language Makers : on standard language ideology, authenticity and language expertise Universiteit Gent
The aim of this article is twofold: first, we apply the concept of “Language Making” – which is introduced in this thematic issue – to the domain of foreign language learning and teaching. More specifically, we investigate the role of teachers, as well as other social actors in the domain of foreign language education, in the making of foreign languages, i.e., their role in selecting varieties and forms that they deem appropriate to be learned. ...
Miss Belgium, Coca-Cola and Flemish carwashes : mapping discourses on 'multilingualism' by the Dutch-and French-medium written press in Belgium Universiteit Gent
This article explores recent (1995-2018) dis-courses on 'multilingualism' in the Dutch-and French -medium written press in Belgium: how is the notion of 'multilingualism' thematised and evaluated and how does this reflect underlying historical, political and socio-economic sensitivities linked to the long-standing Belgian conflict? Based on a corpus of 1710 news articles and using Ruiz' (1984) language orientations as heuris-tics for ...
La construcción del Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural - Anotado y Parseado (COSER-AP) : avances en el etiquetado de partes del discurso Universiteit Gent
This article presents the advances made for the construction of the ‘Annotated and Parsed Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish’. The methodology for building a treebank to evaluate the accuracy of state-of-the-art part of speech taggers: spaCy, Stanza and UDPipe is presented. It is shown that, when oral data is tagged the accuracy is 0.90-0.93; none of the regional varieties presents a significant difference in accuracy over the others. ...