The issue of Quranic verses misinterpretation by Samina Ali in the TEDx Talk Channel by Abd. Razzak, Monika @ Munirah, Elias, Nurul Afifah, Ab. Rahim, Nik Mohd. Zaim

“…Therefore, Muslims need to be more cautious in seeking information about Islam in the TED Talks YouTube channel as not everyone is qualified to speak about religion without expertise and authority in that field.…”

Incorporating ICT for Authentic Materials Application in English for Specific Purposes Classroom at Higher Education Institutions by Tamar Dolidze, Natela Doghonadze

“…The presented article is an attempt to once more emphasise the importance of integrating technologies in teaching ESP at the level of tertiary education in Georgia for effective usage of authentic materials – TED talks, live stream, etc. – in the classroom, particularly while teaching ESP, and to prove its significance on the basis of the survey whose respondents were ESP specialists. …”
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Active Learning as a Means to Promote Education for Sustainable Development in the Classroom: A Case Study of Implementation in the Course “Multilevel Governance” by Savitri Jetoo

“…This article recommends that active learning techniques, such as group discussions, group assignments, Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks, are critical to engaging students in the classroom on sustainability issues. …”
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English–Korean speech translation corpus (EnKoST-C): Construction procedure and evaluation results by Jeong-Uk Bang, Joon-Gyu Maeng, Jun Park, Seung Yun, Sang-Hun Kim

“…Thus, we created an EnKoST-C centered on TED Talks. In this process, we enhance the sentence alignment approach using the subtitle time information and bilingual sentence embedding information. …”
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Vocabulary Demands of Academic Spoken English Revisited: A Case of University Lectures and TED Presentations by Nguyen Huynh Trang, Duyen Thi Bich Nguyen, Hung Tan Ha

“…By employing the Academic Word List (AWL) and British National Corpus/Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) wordlist, the present study analyzed data of the transcripts from 160 university lectures, 39 seminars, and 600 TED talks. Results from the analysis of the 2.5-million-token corpus demonstrated an order of lexical difficulty in which Life Sciences and Social Sciences were the most and least lexically demanding fields of study, correspondingly. …”
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How much is said in a microblog?: A multilingual inquiry based on Weibo and Twitter by Liao, H-T, Fu, K-W, Hale, S

“…We first establish our criterion for quantifying "how much can be said" in a digital text based on the openly available Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the translated subtitles from TED talks. These parallel corpora allow us to determine the number of characters and bits needed to represent the same content in different languages and character encodings. …”

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages by Surafel M. Lakew, Marcello Federico, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

“…To this aim, we introduce our recently proposed iterative self-training method, which incrementally improves a multilingual NMT on a zero-shot direction by just relying on monolingual data. Our results on TED talks data show that multilingual NMT outperforms conventional bilingual NMT, that the transformer NMT outperforms recurrent NMT, and that zero-shot NMT outperforms conventional pivoting methods and even matches the performance of a fully-trained bilingual system.…”
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Introduction to Special Indigenous Issue by Raven Sinclair

“…Hence, this edition illustrates that there is no “single story” (Chimamanda Adichie,TED Talks) that articulates the Aboriginal experience. …”
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A Study on Instructional Humor: How Much Humor Is Used in Presentations? by Vera Paola Shoda, Toshimasa Yamanaka

“…Two corpora were used in this research: TED Talks and user-submitted jokes from “stupidstuff.org” The results found that educators used humor 12.92 times for popular talks, while less popular talks only had 3.92 times. …”
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Accuracy and Fluency Development of Spoken English through Online Informal Activities: A Microgenetic Analysis by Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur, Zahra Parsaeian

“…Through a stratified purposive sample selection, three adult male and female intermediate-level participants were selected and agreed to engage in some online informal activities such as emailing, watching online videos like TED Talks, participating in webinars, reading online news, etc. …”
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Global Englishes in the Classroom by Peter Schildhauer, Marion Schulte, Carolin Zehne

“…We argue that in particular audio-visual material is well-suited for making students encounter Global Englishes in the classroom and move on to suggest TED-talks, advertisements and cinematic films as highly suitable sources of material. …”
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“Beauty” premium for social scientists but “unattractiveness” premium for natural scientists in the public speaking market by Weilong Bi, Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler

“…Notably, we find that the effect of facial attractiveness on external influence is only robust to measures where speakers’ physical appearance is likely to be most apparent to the public, such as invitations to give TED talks or Google web page counts while the effect on the number of book publications or book awards is not significant. …”
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Stereotyping in the digital age: Male language is "ingenious", female language is "beautiful" - and popular. by Tabea Meier, Ryan L Boyd, Matthias R Mehl, Anne Milek, James W Pennebaker, Mike Martin, Markus Wolf, Andrea B Horn

“…In a pre-registered study, we collected transcripts of TED Talks along with their impact measures, i.e., views and ratios of positive and negative talk ratings, from the TED website. …”
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Transition Trauma Metaphor in Transgender Narrative by Alla Martynyuk

“…This study combines methodological tools of conceptual metaphor theory and narrative psychology with theoretical assumptions of the intersubjective psycholinguistic approach to meaning to explore instantiations of transition narrative metaphors in 16 TED talks given by transgender people and posted on the TED platform within the period between January 2013 and July 2020. …”
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Geografias descoloniais no Ensino Médio: (Re)visitando a demografia do Brasil na perspectiva dos multiletramentos by Leonardo Carvalho

“…Quatro obras são propostas como instrumentos analíticos: o livro “Ideias para Adiar o Fim do Mundo” de Ailton Krenak, a música “Palmares 1999” do Natiruts, a apresentação audiovisual “Precisamos Romper com os Silêncios” de Djamila Ribeiro no TED Talks São Paulo e a apresentação audiovisual “Youtuber Indígena Cristian Wari’u - Povos Indígenas do Brasil”. …”
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Development of an online public health curriculum for medical students: the public health commute by Sarah Godfrey, Katherine Nickerson, Jonathan Amiel, Benjamin Lebwohl

“…Students received guiding questions and media-based resources (e.g. podcasts, TedTalks, YouTube videos) in weekly modules addressing topics in public health. …”
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Editorial: Pedagogical Media Ecologies by Dorothee M. Meister, Theo Hug, Norm Friesen

“…From the late medieval university through to today’s IGNITE and TED talks, the lecture has accommodated and reflected a wide range of media ecologies, technical conditions and epistemological patterns. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic: how we should respond by Charles O C Langoya

“…It is quite interesting to listen to a TED talk given by Bill Gates in 2015 in which he strongly stressed the fact that the next greatest human plight is neither going to be a terrorist attack nor a nuclear war but an infectious agent. …”
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The PISA-syndrome - How the OECD has hijacked the way we perceive pupils, schools and education by Svein Sjöberg

“…Since then, PISA results have gradually become a kind of global “gold standard” for educational quality, and educational policy has been globalized, lifted out of the domestic policy, as proudly stated by the PISA director, Andreas Schleicher in the TED-talk quoted below. The presentation is transcribed in 29 languages and has been seen by some 758 thousand viewers.…”
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Games to Learn: An Update from 2010 by Ali Carr-Chellman

“…This paper represents an update on my thoughts about gaming for learning 8 years after my TED talk (see https://www.ted.com/talks/ali_carr_chellman_gaming_to_re_engage_boys_in_learning) and after several longitudinal studies conducted (mostly with Dr. …”
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