● Branislav Bédi

Branislav Bédi

Main information

Icelandic
Slovak

Affiliation

The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Levels of education

  • Higher Education
  • Adult education

Geographical scope of expertise

Policy themes

  • Access to high quality education for all
  • Funding and governance of education and training
  • Gender, sexual identities
  • Education and migration
  • Transitions, mobility and cross-border cooperation

Selected publications

  • Akhlaghi-Baghoojari, E., Bédi, B., Chua, C., Horváthová, I., Ivanova, N., Maizonniaux, C., Mykhats, M., Ní Chiaráin, N., Rayner, M., Orian Weiss, C., & Zviel-Girshin, R. (2022). Easy as ABC: using LARA to build multimedia alphabet books. Intelligent CALL, granular systems, and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022. Research- publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1425 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Bédi, B. (2022). Development of online tools supporting the learning of Icelandic as a foreign and second language. Tungumál í víðu samhengi / Perspectives on Language and Context: Afmælisrit til heiðurs Birnu Arnbjörnsdóttur / Festschrift in honor of Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute. Available at https://vigdis.hi.is/sites/dev-vigdis.hi.is/files/2023-11/birnaarnbjornsdottir.afmaelisrit.mars2022.pdf (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Bédi, B., Chiera, B., Chua, C., Eyjólfsson, B., Rayner, M., Orian Weiss, C., & Zviel-Girshin, R. (2022). Using LARA to create annotated manuscripts and inscriptions for museums: an initial feasibility study. Intelligent CALL, granular systems, and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022. Research-publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2022.61.1428 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Bédi, B., Beedar, H., Chiera, B., Ivanova, N., Maizonniaux, C., Ní Chiaráin, N., Rayner, M., Sloan, J., & Zuckermann, G. (2022). Using LARA to create image-based and phonetically annotated multimodal texts for endangered languages. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics. Available at https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.computel-1.9 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Richter, C., Bédi, B., Pálsson, R., & Guðnason, J. (2022). Computer-assisted pronunciation training in Icelandic (CAPTinI): developing a method for quantifying mispronunciation in L2 speech. Intelligent CALL, granular systems, and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022. Research-publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2022.61.1480 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Bédi, B., & Roje, L. (2021). Assessing attitudes of university students toward online classes of Icelandic as a foreign and second language during COVID-19. CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021. Research- publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1304 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Hopkins, K. P., & Bédi, B. (2021). Immigrant families’ home use of electronic and online Icelandic L2 materials for children. CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021. Research-publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2021.54.1323 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Sissoko, F., & Bédi, B. (2021). Assessing learners’ needs for practising spoken Icelandic L2 with the mobile app TALAÐU!. CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021. Research-publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/ rpnet.2021.54.1344 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Zuckermann, G., Vigfússon, S., Rayner, M., Ní Chiaráin, N., Ivanova, N., Habibi, H., Bédi, B. (2021). LARA in the Service of Revivalistics and Documentary Linguistics:Community Engagement and Endangered Languages . Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Vol 1. Colorado University. Online. Available at https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/computel/article/view/953/879 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Arnbjörnsdóttir, B., Friðriksdóttir, K., & Bédi, B. (2020). „Icelandic Online: twenty years of development, evaluation, and expansion of an LMOOC.“ CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020, Research-publishing.net. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.1158 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).
  • Bédi, B., Butterweck, M., Chua, C., Gerlach, J., Guðmarsdóttir, B. B., Habibi, H., Jónsson, B. Ö., Rayner, M., & Vigfússon, S. (2020). LARA: an extensible open source platform for learning languages by reading. CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020. Research-publishing.net. Available at https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.1160 (Accessed: 30 January 2024).