Sentence examples for situated language from inspiring English sources

In doing so, we demonstrate how specific design decisions, in the development of this longer-term iterative design project, conjoin Human Computer Interaction practice and learning theory for situated language learning.

In their user testing with 64 students, they report that the students who used the situated language learning approach scored significantly higher (M = 89.4, SD = 7.5) compared to those who used printed materials and audio recordings (M = 81.3, SD = 9.6).

Pointing to the commonalities between Quine's critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction and Sellars's attack on the "myth of the given," Rorty concluded that there is no position outside historically situated language games from which to distinguish mind from world.

This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people's linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find themselves in a new linguistic environment for which they have not been prepared.

Theoretically, through analyses of various corpora of situated language use, reasonably detailed features can become a part of the general descriptive model of context of situation – one which could apply to a range of different situations, and indeed, there is much work underway to this end [e.g. Bowcher 2007, 2014; (Butt D.: Parameters of context, unpublished); Hasan 2014].

Situated language helps communicate a material world, a tangible social, political, and cultural extratext in which the text is inevitably embedded.1 Materialist [End Page 43] approaches such as those proposed by Hennessy and Landry & MacLean help interrogate the text as both a material object dependent on its medium and as a referential entity.

He contended that language reaches a broader audience, and situating language in contexts outside traditional art-viewing settings, such as art museums, furthers that reach.

An equally powerful source of resistance to indeterminacy stemmed from a new concern with situating language users within the causal order of the physical and social worlds, the latter encompassing extra-linguistic activities and techniques with their own standards of success and failure.

Additionally, we situate language use among actors in sociolinguistic theories of language as action and practice (Moyer 2008).

This augmented set up, which can be integrated into any existing normal kitchen, provided the learning environment with sensing capabilities that allowed for the tracking of learners' progress in a cooking task and provide situated and language-related feedback in a real-world context for authentic language use.

Based on empirical research and analysis of texts, this book takes a closer look at the continent and the diaspora by situating African languages, cultures, and literatures at the center, and shows how African languages are used in the liberation, transfer of knowledge, and promotion of literacy among Africans globally.