THE USE OF ICT ON LANGUAGES

ICT in The Service of Multiculturalism Contact hypothesis:  1. Lays down the conditions for successful between two or more groups. Equal group status within the situation. Common goals. Intergroup cooperation. Institutional support. 2. Knowledge of differences between groups is not in itself enough to stop prejuice. There are many problems involved with applying contact hypothesis through face-to-face contact. Logistics of group meetings The need to meet with another group from a nearby or easily accessible geographical location. Growing transportation costs. The OICH The online inter-group contact hypothesis (OICH) model is based on an extension of the contact hipothesis to adopt the original contact hypothesis for the online connections between groups in conflict. Be fully supported by each participating institution. Involve collaboration among groups rather than among individuals. Deal with general subjects and not with congflicts Be based on a nee...

The role of computer skills in the formation of modern translator's professional competence Translation tools: Machine translation (MT) --> Substitutes words from a language into another, but cannot produce good translations of a complete text. Computer assisted translation (CAT) --> It's a form of language translation in which a human translator uses a computer software to support and facilitate the translation process.  Terminology management systems: TMS allows translators to create and maintain a personal database of terminology, wich is rederred to as a termbase. Benefits: 1) enhancing and encouraging terminological consistency and thus improve quality of translated texts, 2) prevent translators from undertaking the same terminological searches, 3) translation process is an accelerated due to refuse of previously translated terminology. Localization software: localization involves making the product (e.g. translation project) linguistic...

ICT, Education, Transformation, and Economic Development: an analysis of the US National Education Technology Plan Us development of education (office of educational technology, 2010) released a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan. The NETP calls for a transformation of America education. It'll bring access to teachers, students and broadband connectivity. Recommendations to the NETP are made as part of a constellation related to other components of the education system. ICT, Education, Transformation, and Economic Development Five sorts of research are reviewed in this article: Macroeconomic research -->Macroeconomic trends: shifting by manufacturing to information economy Microeconomic research --> Microeconomic trends: changes in business organization and practices. Labor market and workforce studies Studies showing patterns of the everyday ICT use in American life Studies showing that American schools are not using ICT in a significant way o...

ADOPTION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 1° Document production activities:  Smaller numbers of respondents  (25%) used graphical or presentation software (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint), and 17% used desktop publishing  packages. Web publishing software, such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage, was used by only 13% of the freelancers. 2° Information search and retrieval activities:  A high proportion of respondents (79%) consulted online dictionaries and / or glossaries, and 59% made use of multilingual terminology databanks. 3° Translation creation activities: Computer – aided translation (CAT) tools: 28% of the translators Machine translation systems: 5 % of the sample A very small number of translators 2% were using localisations tools, such as Alchemy Catalyst and Passolo. 4° Communication activities: Electronic mail was in widespread use (93% of the translators used it). The majority of respondents (68%) relied on dial up conections and only 26% used b...

TRANSLATION AND TECHNOLOGY Technology has made possible to instantly analyse vast amount of data rather than having to manually through page after page of information. General aspects needing our fullest attention. Any technical tool will fail sooner rather than later. Tools need to accomodate and follow the grammatic rules Tools are good as identifying typos and doing suggestions.    

An effective use of ICT for education and learning by drawing on worldwide knowledge research and experience.   ICT enhancing learning enviroment  Provides opportunities to access an abundance of information using multiple information resources and viewing information from multiple perspectives, thus fostering the authenticity of learning enviroments. ICT enhancing the quality and accessibility of education ICT increases the flexibility of delivery of education so that learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere ICT enhancing  teaching and learning process This can help to improve and develop the quality of education by providing curricular support in difficult subjects areas. Contributes to increase the interaction and reception of information. Education Reading Writing Numeracy  

The role of ICT sector in expanding economic opportunity. Historical perspective. The ICT are the pioneers in adressing needs. In the 80´s the importance were the PTTS and were expensive and with an atrocious quality. The data network was unexistent In the past 20 years innovation has accelerated dramatically. Technology only increases productivity when lots of people have access. Fundamental role of ICT in modern economic. Reduce transaction costs and thereby improve productivity Offer immediate connectivity – voice, data, visual – Substitute for other, more expensive means of communicating and transacting Increase choice in the marketplace and provide access to otherwise unavailable goods and services Widen the geographic scope of potential markets Channel knowledge and information of all kinds Economic opportunity obstacles Geographic isolation Lack of competition and high prices for consumers Lack of competition and low prices for producers Legal ex...

ICT for Translation and Interpreting A global crisis: a shortage of qualified linguists •       Paris Declaration in 2010. •       European institutions anticipate a similar shortage in the next ten years. •       Industries are concerned about this. •       Average loss of €325,000 per business. How to tackle these crisis? Through education and by s chool of thought leans to a experiential and situated learning . Difficulties for the method of learning. •       Experience is vital in the learning process, but for the experience to be valid, it is essential that they learn “in context” (McLellan 1994) and the context and activities need to be authentic. •       So how does an experience becomes authentic? •     John Dewey (1859 – 1952), American philosopher, psychologist, and educational...

Electronic Era (1946 - 1957)   Electronic devices and advent of solid state.  Electronic numerical integrator and computer first and general purpose computer, market revolutionary period in computing, big machines, processing speed was slower than others. Transistor - Electronic device, lightweight and faster, foundation of every electronic device, first full transistor. Integrated circuits - it revolutionized the use of computers and electric devices, faster operation speed. Was invented by Jack Kilby. Computer processor - fast-paced development and inovation in personal computing, productivity, entertainment, comunication, world wide web. Was invented by Pier Georgio and Don Estridge. 

THE VALENTINE'S DAY Valentine's Day , also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine , is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14. It originated as a Western Christian liturgical feast day honoring one or more early saints named Valentinus , and is recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration in many regions around the world, although it is not a public holiday in any country.  Several martyrdom stories associated with the various Valentines that were connected to February 14 were added to later martyrologies , including a popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of rome which indicated he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, Saint Valentine healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius, and before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed "...

ELECTROMECHANICAL ERA (1848 - 1940) The discovery of ways to control and use the electricity. Inventions: Colossus machine: the first on electronic calculating devices.  The voltaic battery which is considered the first source of stores electricity in the 8th century.  Samuel F.J Morse invented the first magnetic telegraph in 1832, he also made an experiement version in 1815. Telephone and Radio: The first succesful bi-directional transmission of clear speech was invented by Bell and Watson on March 10th, 1876. Marchese Guglielmo Marconi invented the radiotelegraph. MARK 1: the first complete turing computer, created by the IBM in Hardvard.