Plenary
Lecture
Website on English Learning
Professor Mirela-Catrinel Voicu
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
West University of Timisoara, Romania
E-mail:
mirela.voicu@feaa.uvt.ro
Abstract: Our objective is to present a website
which can be used as traveler’s conversation guide in
order to help the tourists. We are focused on the
followings:
-Vocabulary – different lists of words with phonetic
transcription for singular and plural (as tool for
pronunciation learning), common and short phrases. A big
part of language guides contain lists of words grouped
by categories: for example, the 15-Minute series of
language guides or European phrase book from Dorling
Kindersley, Inglese in viaggio (English in travel)-
Istituto Geografico De Agostini, European Conversation
Dictionary from Thomas Cook Publishing, etc. The
approach using lists of words in order to learn a
foreign language is also currently common for some of
very famous dictionaries. We recall the Visual
Dictionary by Jean-Claude Corbeil and Ariane Archambault
from Merriam Webster (see
http://visual.merriam-webster.com), which has also a
multilingual version and the Visual Dictionaries and
Encyclopedias from Dorling Kindersley, UK.
-Grammar - we are focused on words and phonetic
transcriptions. For example, in the website, if you
select an adjective you can view the degrees of
comparison: positive, comparative, superlative, with
phonetic transcription. When you select a verb, you can
see the entire conjugation, also with phonetic
transcription.
The benefit of the website is that it can increase
unlimitedly (a travel conversation guide, generally is a
book in small size), can be used by everyone (using list
of worlds- all in English, people can use tools for
translation, e.g. http://translate.google.com/#). It is
designed for those who will travel soon and they need to
know the English travel conversation. Our new results
will be focused on algorithms for word database
exploration and the website model.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Mirela-Catrinel Voicu was born in Romania. In 1995, she
graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer
Sciences, West University of Timisoara. She received the
MSc degree in Applied Mathematics, Informatics in
Economy and Computer Sciences from the West University
of Timisoara. She followed a training course for PhD
thesis at the National Institute for Statistics and
Economic Studies, Paris, France. She received her PhD in
2001 from the University of Timisoara, Romania (with the
"Cum laude" distinction) and from the University of
Paris 13, France (with the "Tres honorable avec
felicitations" distinction). Currently she is a
Professor at the Department of Economic Informatics,
within the Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration, West University of Timisoara, Romania,
where, since 1995, she has held several academic
positions. Her activity includes Programming and
Internet Programming, Informatics in Economy, Databases,
OOP, Data structures. Through the collaboration program
between the Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration and the Faculty of Mathematics and
Informatics of the West University, she has held classes
with international participation, in postgraduate
education, in the section of "Mathematic modelling in
economics and applied sciences" Exchange Rate Evolution
Models subject introduced within the program due to the
original contributions in her PhD. During the
collaboration between the Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration, West University of Timisoara
and CUOA Italy, she has taught a postgraduate class for
the section of "Management of Business and Public
Administration", regarding the Internet. She has 79
papers in conference proceedings or refereed journals
(from these papers, 26 have been presented or published
abroad). She has published 8 books (1 book in France, 1
book in Germany and 6 books in Romania). She is a
reviewer and a member in international program committee
of various WSEAS conferences from abroad, reviewer at
"Journal of Knowledge, Communications and Computing
Technologies", member in the teams of 9 research
projects (one of which is international) and project
manager for one research project. Since 2002, she is a
member of INFOREC (Romanian Association for Economic
Informatics Training Promotion), since 2005, she is a
member of WSEAS (World Scientific and Engineering
Academy and Society) and since 2009, she is a member of
SCT (Society for Computing Technologies).
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