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Language, Childhood, and Fire: How We Learned to Love Sharing Stories.
2022
Stories do not fossilize. Thus, exploring tales shared during prehistory, the longest part of human history inevitably becomes speculative. Nevertheless, various attempts have been made to find a more scientifically valid way into our deep human past of storytelling. Following the social brain hypothesis, we suggest including into the theory of human storytelling more fine-grained and evidence-based findings (from archaeology, the cognitive sciences, and evolutionary psychology) about the manifold exaptation and adaptation, genetic changes, and phenotypic plasticity in the deep human past, which all shaped the emergence of storytelling in hominins. We identify three preconditions for humans…
Literāro tekstu izmantošana vācu valodas ka svešvalodas stundās vidusskolā
2018
Diplomdarbs „Literāro tekstu izmantošana vācu valodas kā svešvalodas stundās vidusskolā” ir veltīts skolēnu lasīšanas spēju attīstībai vācu valodas stundās, izmantojot literāros tekstus. Tēmas izvēle ir pamatota ar to, ka literatūras nelasīšana ir bieži sastopama parādība mūsdienu pusaudžu vidū. Tādēļ mūsdienu svešvalodu pedagogu mērķis ir ne tikai attīstīt bērna lasītprasmi, bet arī veicināt skolēnu interesi par lasīšanu. Darba gaitā tika izpētīta zinātniskā un metodiskā literatūra, atlasīti atbilstoši literārie teksti, izstrādāti stundu plāni un veikta pedagoģiskā izmēģinājumdarbība. Darba praktiskajā daļā ietverta izglītojamo aptaujas analīze. Tika konstatēts, ka literāro tekstu lasīšana…
Literatūra kā palīglīdzeklis franču valodas apguvē iesācēju līmenim
2020
Jau sākot ar iesācēju līmeņiem (A1, A2, A2+) franču valodas kā svešvalodas apguvē ir ieteicams iekļaut literāros tekstus. Šāda prakse atver skolēniem durvis uz citu kultūru, bagātina viņu valodu, veicina intelekta attīstību un parāda skaistumu, ko sniedz fantāziju pasaule. Darba mērķis ir noteikt kritērijus pēc kādiem izvēlēties literāros darbus, lai tie būtu piemēroti iesācēju līmenim (A1, A2, A2+) franču valodā kā svešvalodā kā arī metodes kā no šiem darbiem izveidot aktivitātes franču valodas pasniegšanai iesācēju līmenim. Lai šos kritērijus noteiktu tika apskatīti dažādi speciālistu viedokļi, kā arī izpētītas piedāvātās metodes darbu iekļaušanai mācību procesā saglabājot to oriģinalitāt…
The Wind in the Willows : un roman de l'intime pour une tentative d’exploitation pédagogique des propriétés du texte littéraire
2016
This paper presents a teaching experiment based on the Edwardian children's literature classic, The Wind in the Willows, getting the students to engage with this text through reading, writing and talking, and aiming at triggering their linguistic creativity.
The Syllogistic with Unity
2011
We extend the language of the classical syllogisms with the sentence-forms “At most 1 p is a q” and “More than 1 p is a q”. We show that the resulting logic does not admit a finite set of syllogism-like rules whose associated derivation relation is sound and complete, even when reductio ad absurdum is allowed.
Logic and the Myth of the Perfect Language
2010
We argue that the dream of a ‘perfect language’ – namely, a universal, unambiguous and semantically transparent medium of expression –, whose intriguing story has been told by Umberto Eco (1993), is deeply intertwined with the myth of instant rationality: the idea that a perfect language is one in which all logical relations becomeimmediatly visible, so that the language itself “does the thinkingfor us” (Frege 1884). In the first part of this paper we trace this versionof the dream in the works of Leibniz, Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein. In the second part we re-examine it in the light of more recent negative results in logic and theoretical computer science.
Book Review: Statistical Inference as Severe Testing
2019
Una lectura de les «Regles introductòries a la pràctica de l’Art demostrativa» de Ramon Llull
2022
Una part no menyspreable de les poesies de Ramon Llull va ser escrita per a afavorir la memorització dels fonaments conceptuals i operatius de l’Art. L’Art és una eina intel·lectual complexa i el seu creador era partidari de l’obscuritat didàctica. L’esforç que demana a l’usuari, d’altra banda, és indissociable de la pràctica de la primera intenció, que és conèixer i estimar Déu. És per això que les poesies creades per a aprendre l’Art i practicar-la poden semblar, a primera vista, un bon exemple de trobar clus. La lectura que es proposa en aquest article intenta fer més lleu l’accés a les Regles, pensades per facilitar la pràctica de l’Art demostrativa, el manual d’ús central de l’Art lul·…
General and special education teachers’ knowledge about reading comprehension processes and instructional practices
2022
AbstractThe study investigated teachers’ knowledge of reading comprehension processes and reading comprehension instruction. The study was carried out among teachers (N = 65) in Estonia. The content analysis classified qualitative data from semi-structured interviews as quantitative data. The results showed that teachers’ content knowledge about reading comprehension processes and pedagogical knowledge of reading comprehension instruction were considerably variable yet mostly limited. Special education teachers (n = 37) mentioned a wider range of reading strategies than classroom teachers (n = 28). When describing how to support struggling readers, significant differences emerged between th…
The outcomes of national literacy programs on basic reading skills in familiar language among Zambian early graders
2016
In Zambia the Ministry of General Education implemented two national literacy programs in order to improve low levels of reading; the Primary Reading Program (PRP) implemented from 1999 to 2014 and the Primary Literacy Program (PLP) piloted in some schools in 2014 before being scaled up. This research examines the acquisition of basic reading skills among learners in familiar languages at the end of grade 2 in the two national literacy programs. I examined assessment results separately for each program and compared the two with each other. Outcomes were observed on the basis of the Early Grade Reading assessment test battery given to random samples of children (n=393) in 40 schools from 4 d…