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Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Developmental Science, 2024
There is substantial evidence that children's apparent omission of grammatical morphemes in utterances such as "She play tennis" and "Mummy eating" is in fact errors of commission in which contextually licensed unmarked forms encountered in the input are reproduced in a context-blind fashion. So how do children stop making such…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Preschool Children, Grammar
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Yuchen Wang; Juxiang Zhou; Zijie Li; Shu Zhang; Xiaoyu Han – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Graded reading is one of the important ways of English learning. How to automatically judge and grade the difficulty of the English reading corpus is of great significance for precision teaching and personalized learning. However, the current rule-based readability assessment methods have some limitations, such as low efficiency and poor accuracy.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Reading Materials, Readability, Semantics
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Husam M. Alawadh; Talha Meraj; Lama Aldosari; Hafiz Tayyab Rauf – SAGE Open, 2024
E-learning systems are transforming the educational sector and making education more affordable and accessible. Recently, many e-learning systems have been equipped with advanced technologies that facilitate the roles of educators and increase the efficiency of teaching and learning. One such technology is Automatic Essay Grading (AEG) or…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education
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Elena I. Shpit; Philip M. McCarthy – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Virtually all researchers understand the requirement of presenting their studies in peer-reviewed English-medium journals. Russian scientific writers understand this necessity too; however, evidence suggests that these particular researchers are under-performing relative to similar non-native English speakers. The considerable challenge Russians…
Descriptors: Russian, Engineering Education, Researchers, English (Second Language)
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Affef Ghai; Sharif Alghazo – Open Education Studies, 2024
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Arabic, English
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Chutinan Noobutra – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The present study investigates whether or not Thai students' English writing skills can be improved by using an online grammar checker. First, typical syntactic errors made by undergraduate students majoring in English and English for Careers were examined. Secondly, possible reasons for syntactic errors in English writing in the light of Lado's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction