Teacher Agency in Reproducing Translanguaging Practices as Social Justice Strategy to Decolonize ELT by Harjuli Surya Putr

“…Teachers are vital internal pioneers who can make changes in their own classroom by developing an enhanced sense of agency. In multilingual classrooms, teacher agency is the capacity of language teachers to perform constructively for supporting students’ linguistic diversity equitably. …”
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ABioNER: A BERT-Based Model for Arabic Biomedical Named-Entity Recognition by Nada Boudjellal, Huaping Zhang, Asif Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Rashid Naseem, Jianyun Shang, Lin Dai

“…The model performance was compared with two state-of-the-art models (namely, AraBERT and multilingual BERT cased), and it outperformed both models with 85% F1-score.…”
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Identifying the Impacts of Social Movement Mobilization on YouTube: Social Network Analysis by Norhayatun Syamilah Osman, Jae-Hun Kim, Jae-Hong Park, Han-Woo Park

“…This study extracted data from NodeXL and found that YouTube is an effective medium in disseminating climate change information and delivering educational content to a multilingual audience. Additionally, video affordances such as storytelling, audio–visual effects, and concise narratives enhance viewer interest and engagement, increasing resource mobilization effectiveness. …”
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Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation by Irina B. Korotkina

“…Understanding the meanings and functioning of these elements can help multilingual scholars cope with disciplinary literature and write for publication and is therefore essential in teaching English for academic and specific purposes. …”
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Building an Oral Repository of African Immigration Experiences in French: The Griotte Project’s Reparative Historiographic Praxis Through Service-Learning at the University of Cent... by K. Adele Okoli

“…Central Arkansas and the campus of the University of Central Arkansas are home to a vibrant and growing community of multilingual French speakers of diverse cultural and national identities of West and Central Africa. …”
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Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith’s Translation Style in The Freedom Fight and Treasury of Childhood Memories by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Translating literary works, thus, constitutes many problems for the translator who is expected to be both bilingual/multilingual and bicultural/multicultural. Therefore, this essay will examine the roles and challenges of cultural and textual translation in the context of African society through the contribution and dexterity of Pamela J. …”
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Kontakt a zmiana językowa w ujęciu DCxG. Historia analitycznej strony biernej w języku szwedzkim by Dominika Skrzypek, Marta Woźnicka

“…Recent models of language change as a result of language contact focus on the multilinguality of a language user to a larger extent than before. …”
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Analisis Kinerja Algoritma Klasifikasi Teks Bert dalam Mendeteksi Berita Hoaks by Assyfa Rasida Hanum, Ivykaeyla Adriana Zetha, Salwa Cahyani Putri, Rafifah Ayud Wulandari, Sherla Puspa Andina, Julia Nur Fajrina, Novanto Yudistira

“…Sedangkan pada model klasifikasi  BERT Multilingual memiliki akurasi lebih rendah, yakni 63%. …”
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Acting Styles, Nuances and Linguistic Aesthetics: A Case Study of Ibrahim Chatta in Yoruba Films by Adejoke Adetoun Fadirepo, Adeyemi Oluwadamilare Oresanya

“…This research recommends adequate training for all actors, especially multilingual ones to increase their versatility, develop skill and technique in order to sustain them and increase their market value in the industry. …”
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The Methodological Algorithm of Forming Multimedia Foreign Language Communicative Competence of Secondary School Students by Akmaral Rakhman, Dana Shayakhmetova, Zhanar Kulekenova, Elmira Gerfanova, Aliya Ayazbayeva

“…This scientific phenomenon can be constituted as a cumulative readiness and ability of a multilingual learner to effectively engage in foreign language communication within the context of multimedia-mediated intercultural communication, aimed at self-development and self-realization of its participants through conscious and active assimilation of new social experience. …”
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ZeST: A Zero-Resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation Approach for Unknown, Unpaired, and Untranscribed Languages by Luan Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti

“…The experimental results highlight the potential of ZeST in contributing to the field of zero-resourced speech processing and improving communication in multilingual societies.…”
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models by Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im

“…Whisper obtained a WER of 5.11% which indicates that multilingual joint training can enhance the generalization ability. …”
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Computational linguistics and natural language processing techniques for semantic field extraction in Arabic online news by Maulana Ihsan Ahmad, Moh. Kanif Anwari

“…The findings highlighted the potential of SVM for accurate news analysis and the need for further enhancement of NLP techniques to address multilingual and domain-specific challenges.…”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Urban Vellore: A Comprehensive Analysis of Language Distribution, Choice, and Implications in the Commercial Space Through Shop Signs by Mishra Sneha

“…The LL of Vellore’s shop signs is a reflection of the cultural, linguistic, and economic landscape of the city, and provides a window into the complexities of language use in multilingual urban environments.…”
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Storylines from Newcomers’ Perspectives: The Complexities of Learning Mathematics in a Norwegian Introductory Class by Shanthi Gretta Pasanha, Annica Andersson, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Anita Movik Simensen

“…We recommend listening to newcomers’ perspectives of their experiences and recognizing the strengths they bring to the classroom to understand how they navigate their situation while learning mathematics in multilingual mathematics learning settings.…”
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BIPOC Community Perspectives on Environmental Justice in Georgia by Stephanie Cho, LP Green, Marianne Chung, Julia Lee-Hong, Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez

“…Toward that end, Democracy Lab South and partners conducted the first and only multilingual statewide environmental justice survey of Georgia’s BIPOC and immigrant communities in 2022. …”
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How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…This paper describes a new research programme – Favourite Destinations Worldwide – that includes three interrelated innovative tools: (1) the destination brand choice model that allows a better conceptualization of CBBE-TD in the context of destination choice; (2) the Tower of Babel platform, a multilingual online survey for data gathering, to assess CBBE-TD of all destinations competing in the world market; and (3) the Destination Brand Gnosis, a propriety software for qualitative data analysis, transforming the meta-data into a system for constantly evaluating brand attractiveness. …”
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Interaction of Linguistic and Literary Aspects in the Context of the Cultural Diversity of the Turkic Peoples of Central Asia by Omorov Aitmamat, Chokoeva Dilbar, Kalchakeyev Kubanychbek, Sheripbayev Amangeldi, Kochorova Gulumkan

“…The study analysed the linguistic features of the Turkic languages and their mutual influence through literary texts and oral traditions, with an emphasis on the processes of borrowing and adaptation of linguistic elements in a multilingual environment. The study examined scientific sources on linguistics and ethnolinguistics, and compared phonetic, morphological, and syntactic features of the Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Kyrgyz languages in a historical context. …”
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Memoryscapes of the Great War (1914-1918): A paradigm shift in tourism research on war heritage by Myriam Jansen-Verbeke, Wanda George

“…The added value of an international online survey completed by the World Heritage Tourism Research Network1 (WHTRN) in 2012 results from both the conceptual and interdisciplinary approach, questioning the interdependency of cultural, social, economic and political processes within the context of war memoryscapes, and the empirical data resulting from this multilingual survey.New tourism landscapes emerge in which the interests of national and regional governments, local and global stakeholders play an important role. …”
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Survey on Data Analysis in Social Media: A Practical Application Aspect by Qixuan Hou, Meng Han, Zhipeng Cai

“…Finally, we list existing challenges and suggest promising future research directions in terms of data privacy, 5G wireless network, and multilingual support.…”
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