Provoking the Patriarchy Through Digital Language

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Language

scholarly journals Best Practices for Information Architecture, Organization, and Retrieval in Digital Language Archives within University Institutional Repositories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vann
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Language Documentation ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Software Implementations ◽  
Digital Language

This report presents a case study about building a working digital language archive in a hosted university institutional repository. Best practices in language documentation regarding information architecture, organization, and retrieval are considered in relation to university library commitments to resource acquisition/preservation and online cataloging/delivery systems. Despite challenges, findings suggest that constructing digital language archives in university institutional repositories may offer viable collaborative solutions for researchers unable to find suitable, pre-existing archives in which to deposit their language documentary materials. The report concludes that, in such situations, the ability to satisfy best practices may respond to the strengths/weaknesses of particular software implementations as much as it reflects the design team’s vision, as theory and method in language documentation increasingly become matters of library and information science.

Digitizing Humanities in South Africa: Computational linguistic resources, training, and community building

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rooweither Mabuya ◽  
Dimakatso Mathe ◽  
Mmasibidi Setaka ◽  
Menno van Zaanen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Computational Linguistic ◽  
South African ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Language

South Africa has eleven official languages. However, not all have received similar amounts of attention. In particular, for many of the languages, only a limited number of digital language resources (data sets and computational tools) exist. This scarcity hinders (computational) research in the fields of humanities and social sciences for these languages. Additionally, using existing computational linguistics tools in a practical setting requires expert knowledge on the usage of these tools. In South Africa, only a small number of people currently have this expertise, further limiting the type of research that relies on computational linguistic tools. The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) aims to enable and enhance research in the area of language technology by focusing on the development, management, and distribution of digital language resources for all South African languages. Additionally, it aims to build research capacity, specifically in the field of digital humanities. This requires several challenges to be resolved that we cluster under resources, training, and community building. SADiLaR hosts a repository of existing digital language resources and supports the development of new resources. Additionally, it provides training on the use of these resources, specifically for (but not limited to) researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences. Through this training, SADiLaR tries to build a community of practice to boost information sharing in the area of digital humanities.

Scratch

2013 ◽  
pp. 316-335
Author(s):  
Eurídice Cabañes ◽  
Luca Carrubba
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Technical Competencies ◽  
The One ◽  
Digital Language ◽  
Education Field

Videogames, as a new and playful interactive language, have great potential in the education field. On the one hand, we can find educational videogames to cover almost the whole spectrum of topics offered by colleges and academies (although they are used mainly at home and not in the academic environment). On the other hand, playing videogames is in itself a recreational way to generate technical competencies and teach the use of a whole new “digital language.” Depending on different countries and cultures, there is a tendency to implement this technology in educational centres in varying degrees. In order to exemplify this implementation, the authors look at “Scratch,” a creative videogame program for children with a big community behind it. In the conclusion, they focus on the introduction of videogame language in the educational context, not as educational videogames but as a tool to learn digital literacy and contemporary society.

scholarly journals Prevailing Lexical-stylistic Features in Emirati Language Learners’ Digital Discourse | Caractéristiques lexicales stylistiques dominantes dans le discours numérique des apprenants en langue émirienne

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsoghik Grigoryan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Vie Quotidienne ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Speech Behaviors ◽  
Digital Classroom ◽  
Blackboard Learn ◽  
Cas A ◽  
Digital Language

Predicting the future path of the digital classroom discourse is twofold. Today’s language classroom is undergoing an irreversible revolution and one of the most powerful drivers of this transformation is ICT. Digital classroom not only exposes the learners to grammatical language of linguistics, but rather the everyday life of the language in use (Thurlow and Mroczek, 2011). The aim of this study was to explore the nature of free digital discourse in a digital language classroom and capture lexical-stylistic features used in students’ online conversations through Blackboard-learn discussion board. To identify common or unique features of digital discourse in a paperless language classroom and to show how they affect students’ speech behaviors, mixed method case study was used. Aujourd’hui, l’enseignement des langues est entraîné dans une hyperbole irréversible, et les TIC sont l’un des moteurs les plus puissants de cette transformation. Les salles de classe numériques exposent les apprenants non seulement à la grammaire linguistique, mais aussi à la vie quotidienne de la langue en usage (Thurlow et Mroczek, 2011). Le but de cette étude était d’explorer la nature du discours numérique gratuit sur iPad dans une salle de classe numérique pour l’apprentissage linguistique et de capter les caractéristiques lexicales stylistiques utilisées dans les communications en ligne des apprenants adolescents en langue émirienne. Cette approche mixte par étude de cas a mis en œuvre un cadre théorique de détection des sentiments sur une plateforme d’apprentissage sur tableau noir pour cerner les caractéristiques communes ou uniques du discours numérique dans une salle de classe dématérialisée et démontrer comment elles affectent les comportements linguistiques des élèves de langue maternelle émirienne.

scholarly journals Multimedia and Reading Ways: a State of the Art

Comunicar ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 213-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Díaz-Noci
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Digital Edition ◽  
Digital Language

Multimedia is one of the less studied characteristics, probably because of the less-developed level of the digital language. Along with hypertext and interactivity, it is one of the characteristics that defines the digital edition. Those characteristics have been always studied from the point of view of production, although not so much from the point of view of reception. How do users read a digital text? The reader’s participation, reading depth, different trailblazing, the relation user-interface and the conception of multimedia text as a module of a database introduce major changes in the reception of the text, which can and must be studied.La multimedialidad es una de las características menos estudiadas, tal vez por menos desarrolladas, del nuevo lenguaje digital. Junto con el hipertexto y la interactividad, constituye una de las características que definen el discurso digital. Estas características siempre se han estudiado desde el punto de vista de la producción, no tanto desde el punto de vista de la recepción. ¿Cómo leen los usuarios un texto digital? La participación del lector, la profundidad de la lectura, los distintos recorridos y propósitos por la superficie y los niveles más profundos del texto, la relación del usuario con la interfaz y la concepción del texto multimedia como módulo en una base de datos introducen cambios sustanciales en la recepción del texto que pueden y deben ser estudiados.

Study on Materials Selection and Construction of Digital Language Lab Based on Properties of Electronic Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 738 ◽  
pp. 299-302
Author(s):  
Qiang Yi Xi
Keyword(s):  
Data Transmission ◽  
Electronic Materials ◽  
Network Protocol ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Materials Selection ◽  
Transmission Quality ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Digital Language

Nowadays, the traditional analog language lab is being replaced by the digital language lab, in which the transfer of data between the network and the terminal is realized through the standard network protocol and the data transmission quality has met the requirements in language training. However, how to utilize present resources and set up standard digital language labs needs more researching. This paper mainly deals with the materials selection and the construction of the digital language lab based on properties of electronic materials, and thus provides reference to set up more efficient and more effective language labs.

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