The Business & Financial Times on MSN

English proficiency advancement at crossroads: Ghana grapples with literacy gaps and language policy shifting

By Ernest Bako WUBONTOGhana has failed to break into the top five English-speaking countries on the continent, despite its ...
IEEE

CACRE: A Weakly Supervised Method for Cross-Attention Contrastive Relation Extraction With Large Language Models

Abstract: In the relation extraction (RE) task, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in predicting unknown relations, offering significant improvements in efficiency and ...
IEEE

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods for Pretrained Language Models: A Critical Review and Assessment

Abstract: With the continuous growth in the number of parameters of the Transformer-based pretrained language models (PLMs), particularly the emergence of large language models (LLMs) with billions of ...
Frontiers

Testing emergency language skills in situational teaching: a quasi-experimental research

This language teaching method can stimulate students’ interest in learning the language, deepen their cognition and understanding of the language knowledge, improve their comprehensive language use ...
Frontiers

From perceptions to beliefs: the mediating role of attitudes in pre-service English teacher cognition of Communicative Language Teaching in China

1 School of Foreign Languages, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, China 2 School of Business Administration, Shandong Women’s University, Jinan, China Introduction: Although Communicative ...