Foreign Communication Research Articles

Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia's foreign communication

Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia's foreign communication

Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia's foreign communication

Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia's foreign communication

Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication

ABSTRACT This article advances extant research that has audited search algorithms for misinformation in four respects. Firstly, this is the first misinformation audit not to implement a national but a cross-national research design. Secondly, it retrieves results not in response to the most popular query terms. Instead, it theorizes two semantic dimensions of search terms and illustrates how they impact the number of misinformative results returned. Furthermore, the analysis not only captures the mere presence of misinformative content but in addition whether the source websites are affiliated with a key misinformation actor (Russia’s ruling elites) and whom the conspiracy narratives cast as the malicious plotters. Empirically, the audit compares Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across 5 key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication (Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, and the US) and Russia as of November 2020 (N = 5280 search results). It finds that, across all countries, primarily content published by mass media organizations rendered conspiracy theories visible in search results. Conspiratorial content published on websites affiliated with Russia’s ruling elites was retrieved in the Belarusian, German and Russian contexts. Across all countries, the majority of conspiracy narratives suspected plotters from China. Malicious actors from the US were insinuated exclusively by sources affiliated with Russia’s elites. Overall, conspiracy narratives did not primarily deepen divides within but between national communities, since – across all countries – only plotters from beyond the national borders were blamed. To conclude, the article discusses methodological advice and promising paths of research for future cross-national search engine audits.

Using of modern foreign experience of communications in the system of public administration

The article summarizes the results of research on the use of modern foreign communications experience in the public administration system. It was determined that the basis of communication between the authorities and society is based on the synthesis of the interaction of these two opponents, which has recently been formed precisely through social networks, as a result — electronic governance. It is important not to investigate the significance of communication at the current stage, because communication links are traced in many spheres of life. The study of communication is important in various sciences, including public administration, economics, political science, law, sociology, and others. It is substantiated that the effectiveness of communication between authorities is largely determined by feedback mechanisms between citizens and authorities. Feedback in the public administration system is the influence of the results of the functioning of the public administration system on the nature of this functioning. It was determined that in the system of public administration it seems possible to distinguish two types of feedback: object and subject. Object feedback reflects the level, depth, and adequacy of perception by objects of management of the management influences of the subject of state administration. It has been proven that the main trends in the modernization of public administration in foreign countries are: the use of advanced information and communication technologies in the field of public administration; increasing control over the activities of state authorities; improvement of the mechanism.

A Cognitive Study of Spatial Metaphors in English “Deep” and Chinese “Shen”

This paper presents an analysis and comparison of the projection of Chinese “shen” and English “deep” from the spatial domain to other domains of time, sense, emotion, behavior, and society from a cognitive perspective by using the comparative and contrastive method, explaining the universality and differences of SHEN and DEEP in the metaphorical domain concerning their collocation, usage, and frequency under Chinese and English cultural contexts, which serves as an insight for foreign language teaching, translation practice and cross-cultural communication. The results show that since humans share a similar physical structure and living environment, the spatial adjectives “deep” and “shen” show a lot of similarities. However, the usage, collocation, and frequency of use of “deep” and “shen” still reveal some variations, which might have great implications for second language learning and teaching.
  

The Impact of Group Testing as a Strategy on University ‎Students’ Writing Composition Development ‎

In academic writing, students at universities struggle when they write a short composition in English as a foreign language. Process writings, such as brainstorming, drafting, obtaining feedback, and rewriting, are pedagogical techniques that are widely utilized to teach writing composition in a foreign linguistic communication in parliamentary procedure to develop writing skills. Teachers frequently, use groups work from which students can benefit when there is positive social interaction. EFL students learn better when they incorporate together and can share their strengths and weaknesses of ideas with others in an effective way, as students complete a composition task with assistance that they may not be able to do individually. Nevertheless, some instructors are reluctant to incorporate group testing activities in writing class. In this study, the researchers investigate the impact of group testing as an assessment strategy on writing composition development. To achieve the aim of this study, a quasi-experimental research design with two types of tests (individual test and group testing) were used. Results revealed that group testing provides a good influential assessment strategy to enhance students’ performance in a composition and has a positive effect on long-term retention and enrich their thinking process on subsequent development of writing composition.

Analysis of Relevant Energetic Proportions for Elint Activities in the HF Frequency Band

Intelligence as a warfighting function is a continuous process. It is carried out before planning the mission, during the preparation of the mission, and during its execution as well. The results of the intelligence warfighting function enable commanders to predict the course of action for potential threats and facilitate the commander´s decision-making process. If intelligence information is derived from foreign communication (Communication Intelligence) and noncommunication (Electronic Intelligence) electromagnetic radiations by other than intended recipients, we are speaking about Signals Intelligence. Communication and noncommunication foreign emitters might be also denoted as Radio-Electronic objects. This paper presents an algorithm for analysis of some relevant energetic proportions of a skywave propagation, with consideration of Electronic Intelligence in the high-frequency band. In terms of Electronic Intelligence, Radio-Electronic object is represented by the Over-The-Horizon radar.

Corpus-based Translation Study of Cultural Heritage International Publicity--A Case Study of Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art

With the deepening development of economic globalization, countries all over the world pay more and more attention to the translation of cultural heritage publicity. In foreign communication, publicity translation plays an important role, and Chinese-English translation is also an indispensable means. Therefore, this paper studies takes Huashan Rock Art as the research object, and adopts methods of literature analysis and corpus-based research to realize the publicity translation of cultural heritage application texts. Based on the comparative analysis of Chinese-English translation, it is suggested to strengthen government management, give play to the leading role of the government, attach importance to the training of high-level translation talents, improve the quality of translation, and promote the development of translation research for cultural publicity. There is outstanding significance and universal value of Huashan Rock Art. To protect Huashan Rock Art is to preserve the rich diversity of world cultures and protect our spiritual home. Applying for world cultural heritage is an important way for Huashan Rock Art from ornamental value to research value and then to wealth value enhancement. The study on the translation of Huashan Rock Paintings is of strategic importance to the cultural development of Guangxi. This study provides some reference for the foreign publicity translation of other cultural landscape heritages, therefore it is beneficial to promote the development of corpus translation. Through the translation of Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art application text, it provides a certain direction for the publicity translation of other cultural landscape heritage and it can promote the study of translation commonness. The publicity translation of Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art application text will bring abundant information to the world people and they may know about Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art, Luoyue culture and Chinese culture. Meanwhile, it can better promote the development of cultural tourism industry of Guangxi, even that of China. In addition, the communication and cooperation between China and other countries in the world will be promoted through foreign cultural exchanges, and it is a best approach to promote the development of friendly relations between China and foreign countries.

ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИОННЫЙ ПОДХОД К ОБУЧЕНИЮ БУДУЩИХ МЕДИАТОРОВ

The paper is devoted to the new global approach in teaching future mediators. Mediators are interpreters and translators among representatives of different cultures of language and are able to resolve a conflict. Future mediators should have pluricultural conceptual world view for implementation of professional functions. The author identified the main features of global approach: immensity, universalism, Internet, appearance of global world structures and introduction of unified standards. There were identified the tasks of the research:1) to study the process of globalization and culture globalization; 2) to study Common European Framework of Reference for Languages; 3) to define teaching principles of global approach. The methodology of the study is the analysis of scientific literature: papers, books, theses, professional websites. Characteristics of global approach were identified based on main features of globalization: pluricultural competence, digital technologies, teaching principles according to the global approach and linguistic safety. The kinds of linguistic safety are the informational linguistic safety of verbal communication, state-political aspects of informational linguistic safety, social aspects of informational linguistic safety, personal-psychological aspects of informational linguistic safety (sociocultural of language informational linguistic safety). Globalization and culture globalization influence the teaching process. The global approach of teaching of future mediators is a need at this stage of teaching. A recent research can be applied in pluricultural pedagogical and pluricultural psychological fields of knowledge. The ideas described in the paper might be used by teachers and lecturers of foreign languages, pluricultural communication, culturology and professional psychology. Informational linguistic safety is considered as a component of content of future mediators.

Совершенствование лингвистической подготовки в системе военного образования

The ever-increasing need of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for specialists fluent in foreign languages is due to the expansion of military cooperation between the Russian Federation and its partner countries. In the actual conditions of interaction between the armed forces in the framework of peacekeeping operations, the timely and correct decision by the commanders to use the forces and means plays a primary role. Often, commanders have to deal with information in a foreign language. Currently, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation trains military specialists in the main foreign languages – English, Chinese, French and German. The language skills of military personnel should be sufficient to enable them to perform at least basic professional communication tasks without the assistance of military language specialists. However, as has already been observed by many specialists, the development of foreign language professional communication skills often involves a certain set of difficulties. This state of affairs justifies the need to develop new and improve upon the existing programmes for training, retraining and improving the language skills of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The aims, objectives and principles of improving the language training for the Russian military personnel, i. e. in the framework of military training centers are considered; the directions for the improvement of the military language training are formulated; the need to improve the lin-guistic training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation personnel is justified.

An Analysis of English Classroom Multimedia Teaching Quality Based on Elite Teaching Optimization Algorithm

As China is increasingly developing towards internationalization, English has become one of the essential skills for foreign communication. In view of the evaluation of music teaching quality, this paper tries to introduce elite teaching optimization algorithm, use multimedia to assist, sort out the factors affecting English teaching quality to build the corresponding indexes, select and optimize the English teaching quality evaluation model, and finally judge the results of English teaching quality. The simulation results show that the elite teaching optimization algorithm is effective and can support the quality analysis of English classroom multimedia teaching.

Raising the Level of Students' Foreign Communicative Competence in the Field of International Relations on the Material of Ted Talk

The specific of the communicative approach is highlighted and its influence on the professional communicative competence of international relations students. The results of the research are described, and it is proved the effectiveness of communicative techniques, improving the level of foreign communicative competence of the students of international relations based on TED talk materials. It is mentioned that the formation of a professional communicative preparation was provided on the different stages of the professional communicative competence approbation of students of international relations. The TED talk video is created from TED presentation (technology, entertainment, design) conferences or important events which took place in the world. TED talks are mostly limited till 18 minutes but there are exceptions. TEDx website's explanation of selection criteria: TED looks for engaging, charismatic speakers whose talks expose new ideas that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to a broad, international audience. The first TED conference was in 1984; the conference has been held annually since 1990. Over the years, presenters of TED talks have included Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bono, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins Mike Rowe, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Vint Cerf. So, the intensive communicative approach in teaching English is of great value and has great retrospect into the future, which allows the real and natural communicative process and approaching to the foreign communicative environment on condition of realization the system of communicative preparation by means of audiovisual resources in educational process, creating the authentic atmosphere.

Professional pedagogical listening competence as an indispensable component of foreign language teacher’s professional training

The article is devoted to the exploration of the characteristics of pedagogical listening being an essential part of the foreign language teachers communication activity and requiring special concern within the system of future professionals training. The study aims to make a case for the need for the pedagogical listening competence to be subjected to focused development during the foreign language teachers professional training. The first part of the article provides the definition of professional pedagogical listening and an analysis of the functions and peculiarities of teachers listening covered in the Russian and foreign scientific literature. The assumption is made that pedagogical listening has its own specifics based on the teachers subject area. The second part of the paper describes the function and peculiarities characteristic of the foreign language teachers listening. As a result, a number of features inherent to the foreign language teachers listening were highlighted. The analysis revealed that those features bring about some difficulties associated with the pedagogical listening implemented by a foreign language teacher, which requires the teacher to have special skills. The results suggest that the pedagogical listening competence requires focused development during the foreign language teachers professional training. The training process containing the components aimed at the development of that competence will provide higher quality training of future professionals and increase graduates capacity to perform their professional activities. The implementation of the task apparently calls for the development of proper scientific and methodological support, which should be considered as one of the promising lines of research on this field.

Language Intelligence Development of English Multimedia Teaching considering Collaborative Filtering Topic Search Algorithm

With the opening up of our country, English has become one of the necessary skills for foreign communication. Traditional English teaching can no longer meet the needs of learning. It is necessary to introduce computer, multimedia, and other technologies to supplement students to improve students’ autonomous learning ability and learning interest. This is extremely important for the evaluation of English multimedia teaching. Based on the collaborative filtering topic search algorithm, this article tries to sort out the influence of English synthesis and English specialization on the development of language intelligence for English multimedia teaching and analyzes and promotes the improvement of students’ interest in learning English and the improvement of classroom self-learning awareness. The results of simulation experiments show that the collaborative filtering topic search algorithm is effective and can support the development of language intelligence in English multimedia teaching.

Research Report on the Publicity of Hangzhou’s International Image: The English Translation of Global Communication Language

Through the two main methods of field investigation (data collection) and personal interviews, this research report, combined with studies of translation on global communication language in China, investigates the English translation of global communication service in Hangzhou by using professional OCR recognition software and computer-aided translation (CAT) technology, explores the confusion in the translation of these language collected from the West Lake scenic area, museums, the Asian Games’ main venues and traffic along the route, etc., then carrying out detailed classification and analysis of translation errors and analyzes their occurrence in many aspects. Finally, it puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions to improve the translation quality. The report points out that global communication language is an indispensable part of China’s foreign language services, city’s international language environment and global image construction, and the translation is also related to China’s foreign language education planning and city-level policy research. Translation of global communication language should use appropriate translation strategies, and should be leveled up to foreign communication translation and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries as well as be examined from the perspective of external publicity and construction of international city image. The Hangzhou government should also effectively insure the translation quality, service quality and city benefits of global communication language on a macro level.

A Study on Chinese-English Translation Standard of Landscape Public Signs Along the "Road of Tang Poetry" in Eastern Zhejiang Province

Based on the development background of the "Road of Tang Poetry" in eastern Zhejiang, this paper discusses the influence of the non-standard Chinese-English translation of public signs along the "Road of Tang Poetry" on the development of the "Road of Tang Poetry," which to some extent hinders the acceptance and understanding of foreigners and affects the international dissemination of Chinese culture. Therefore, it is urgent to regulate the translation of public signs in scenic spots. This research studies the theory and practice of translating public signs from the perspective of translation norms discuss the problems existing in translating public signs in the vital scenic spots of "Road of Tang poetry" in eastern Zhejiang Province. This research also puts forward corresponding translation principles and strategies, hope that relevant developments can pay attention to and standardize the translation of public signs in scenic spots, to promote the promoting role of the translation of public signs in the construction of the "Road of Tang poetry" in eastern Zhejiang, and deepen the level of the foreign communication and exchanges.

ТЕХНОЛОГІЧНІ ПІДХОДИ В НАВЧАННІ ІНОЗЕМНИХ МОВ СТУДЕНТІВ ЕКОНОМІЧНИХ СПЕЦІАЛЬНОСТЕЙ

The article reveals the problem of increasing the efficiency of teaching foreign languages to students of non-linguistic specialties by means of introducing a system of pedagogical teaching technologies into the educational process. It has been determined that pedagogical technologies of teaching are such pedagogical technologies, which are based on modern positions of professional development of a person and aimed at achieving educational goals. In the process of learning foreign languages, they are a way of a phased system of organization of the communicative interaction between a teacher and a student in the conditions of operative feedback between them through the use of specific methods, forms and means of learning. It has been found that the leading class of pedagogical technologies for teaching foreign languages is a communicatively oriented technique – a project technique and an appropriate system of its successive and phased implementation, in which learning emerges as a model of real-world foreign communication. The article provides a classification of pedagogical techniques for teaching foreign languages to students of the economic area of expertise, which can contribute to their more systematic use to improve the efficiency of the educational process in higher education institutions. Among the subspecies of communicative oriented techniques of teaching foreign languages to students of economic specialties the following subcategories have been identified: subjects of educational process management – techniques of teaching, learning, partnership interaction and instrumental techniques; the place in the organization of the educational process – the technique of in-class, out-of-class and independent activities; according to the methodological approach – technique-modernization and technique-transformation and in the terms of implementation – meta-techniques, branch macro techniques, modular-local and micro techniques. The author sees the directions for further research in the development of tools for the implementation of the above techniques in accordance with the characteristics of the professional training of students of economic area of expertise.

НЕКОТОРЫЕ БАРЬЕРЫ И ТРУДНОСТИ В ОБУЧЕНИИ ИНОЯЗЫЧНОМУ РЕЧЕВОМУ ОБЩЕНИЮ

The article presents an analysis of the system of Russian as a foreign language not as a list of theoretical rules presented in the level-by-level description of the language (phonetics → word formation → morphology → syntax → text), but as a component of meaningful, purposeful and meaningful communication based on a communicative-activity approach. It is noted that at the present stage of development of methods of teaching foreign languages, special attention is paid to the development of skills and abilities of adequate communication. At the same time, teachers of Russian as a foreign language are faced with the need to teach students how to form thoughts by means of the Russian language at all levels of proficiency, despite the barriers that arise in teaching foreign communication. A teacher of the Russian language is able to do this only with a purposeful, clear strategy for teaching foreign students who are taught with the help of an intermediary language, relying on a communicative-activity approach. The article notes the teacher's duty to activate the mechanisms of conscious perception of linguistic facts for the development of active speech. This helps to overcome the one-sided view of teaching the language to students of the English-language form of education

Application of Post-Listening Summary Based on Oral Interpretation Contest Corpus in Language Assessment

A summary of oral interpretation can best reflect a person’s instant memory and adaptability. In various places where oral interpreters are needed, the requirements for interpreters are very high. Oral interpretation plays an important role in foreign communications. As international communications deepens and becomes more frequent, people are becoming enthusiastic about the research on oral interpretation. Whether in the West or in China, the research on oral interpretation and related content has never stopped since the seventies of the last century, and it has since been progressing and developing continuously. Based on this, this paper is divided into three parts to elaborate. Firstly, it explains the definition of oral interpretation, secondly the importance of oral interpretation quality assessment is explained, and finally the process and analysis of the establishment of a language assessment index system based on oral interpretation are explained. It is hoped that this paper will serve as a useful reference for relevant personnel.

Modern trends in teaching foreign languages and intercultural communication (on the example of german)

Modern trends in teaching foreign languages and intercultural communication (on the example of german)