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Moreno, Jesús del Carmen Manjarrez – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This paper is focused on one of the most common and basic ways of processing corpus information; concordance, and how it can be used in the classroom to offer language learners useful vocabulary that they would face in genuine conversations and help them detect language patterns as this ability helps them with their learning process. In addition,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sword, Helen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
In this playful meditation on academic pronouns, I report on my research findings from three separate studies: a 2007 analysis of pronoun usage patterns in 50 higher education articles published 2006-2007; a 2017 analysis of the 70 articles published in "Teaching & Learning Inquiry" since the journal was founded in 2013; and an…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage, Higher Education, Periodicals
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Rice, Jeff – Composition Studies, 2011
Walter Ong tells us that the noetic--the rhetorical characteristics of feeling, sensation, and intuition applied to a given communicative situation or act--stems from the oral tradition. The noetic contrasts with the print legacy of argument in which "teaching something is the same as 'proving' it'" ("Ramus" 156). Ong's sense…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Oral Tradition, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Loyson, Peter – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
This article describes the use of Latin-derived words and terms used in chemistry, and explores the meaning of these words, so as to lead to a better understanding of these words, so commonly used in the teaching of chemistry. As the article shows, there are many such words, and with some elementary knowledge, a greater meaning is given to these…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Vocabulary Development, Latin
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Futagi, Yoko; Deane, Paul; Chodorow, Martin; Tetreault, Joel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This paper describes the first prototype of an automated tool for detecting collocation errors in texts written by non-native speakers of English. Candidate strings are extracted by pattern matching over POS-tagged text. Since learner texts often contain spelling and morphological errors, the tool attempts to automatically correct them in order to…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Computational Linguistics
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Rebollo-Gil, Guillermo; Moras, Amanda – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
This paper draws from social science literature on Whiteness and anti-racism as well as personal classroom experience to examine the obstacles educators face in teaching anti-racism to White college students. Emphasis is placed on popular perceptions and common definitions of the word "racism" as it is used in mainstream American society. The…
Descriptors: White Students, Social Sciences, Racial Bias, College Students
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Wible, Scott – College Composition and Communication, 2006
This essay examines a Brooklyn College-based research collective that placed African American languages and cultures at the center of the composition curriculum. Recovering such pedagogies challenges the perception of the CCCC's 1974 "Students' Right to Their Own Language" resolution as a progressive theory divorced from the everyday…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Writing Instruction, African Americans, Black Dialects