The Intersection of Applied Linguistics and Technology in Albania: Pedagogical Innovations, Computational Landscapes, and Future Horizons (Published)
The study investigates the extent of the present incorporation of technology in applied linguistics and language education in Albania, a distinct low-resource language context. We explore Albanian higher education institutions’ use of flipped learning, corpus-based methodologies, and communicative grammar education to facilitate greater linguistic competency through a line of study taking into account both CALL and computational linguistics. Simultaneously, the paper looks into some recent developments in Albanian Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as authorship attribution based on machine learning and construction of multi-dialectal corpus from social media sources. Finally, we address the systemic infrastructural, pedagogical, and digital divide barriers that hinder widespread adoption with evidence-based recommendations for policy and research. In the end, sustainable technological integration needs a balanced frame that marries computational innovation and humanistic, student-centred pedagogy.
Keywords: Albanian NLP, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Divide, flipped learning, low-resource language, technology integration
An Investigation into Visual Language in Powerpoint Presentations in Applied Linguistics (Published)
PowerPoint Knowledge presentation as a digital genre has established itself as one of the main software by which the findings of theses are disseminated in the academic settings. Although the importance of PowerPoint presentations is typically realized in academic settings like lectures, conferences, and seminars, studied to probe the role of visual resources in presentations have received little attention. The current study aligns its march towards scrutinizing the anatomy of visual interaction in the PowerPoint defense session presentations prepared by Iranian Master of Arts students majoring in Applied Linguistics. The study aims at describing the identity of visual resources in the PowerPoint presentations by categorizing the utilized visuals within the presentations according to their communicative purposes. To this end, the study analyzes 70 PowerPoint defense session presentations given at various universities across Iran in Applied Linguistics. So as to do analysis, the study draws on the typology of visuals introduced by Rowley-Jolivet for classifying the types of visuals. The results of visual analyzing mirrors the fact PowerPoint defense session presentations in Applied Linguistics visualized themselves more by scriptural visuals to their members of discourse community. The findings, moreover, demand a framework of presentations in Applied Linguistics for more norm-compatible presentations.
Keywords: Applied Linguistics, PPs, Visual Resources, Visuals