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Allen, Laura K.; Mills, Caitlin; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examines the extent to which instructions to self-explain vs. "other"-explain a text lead readers to produce different forms of explanations. Natural language processing was used to examine the content and characteristics of the explanations produced as a function of instruction condition. Undergraduate students (n = 146)…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Science Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods
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Liu, Chengyuan; Cui, Jialin; Shang, Ruixuan; Xiao, Yunkai; Jia, Qinjin; Gehringer, Edward – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
An online peer-assessment system typically allows students to give textual feedback to their peers, with the goal of helping the peers improve their work. The amount of help that students receive is highly dependent on the quality of the reviews. Previous studies have investigated using machine learning to detect characteristics of reviews (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods
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Kim, Sujeong; Ko, Heejeong; Yang, Hyun-Kwon – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Resultative constructions show a wide range of cross-linguistic variation, which may pose nontrivial challenges to L2 learners. This study investigates how syntactic and semantic differences between L1 and L2 affect L2 acquisition of resultatives. In particular, we investigate how L1-Korean learners project the syntax and semantics of L2-English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax
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Garnier, Marie – Research-publishing.net, 2012
According to recent studies, there is a persistence of adverb placement errors in the written productions of francophone learners and users of English at an intermediate to advanced level. In this paper, we present strategies for the automatic detection and correction of errors in the placement of manner adverbs, using linguistic-based natural…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Error Correction, Natural Language Processing, Feedback (Response)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Unlike English, Standard Arabic has two forms of subject pronouns: Independent such as "?na" ("I"), and a pronominal suffix that is an integral part of the verb such as "katab-tu" ("I wrote"). Independent subject pronouns are commonly used in nominal sentences, not verbal sentences. Use of independent…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing, English (Second Language)
Perry, Barbara; And Others – 1980
The purpose of the study was to investigate children's understanding of "before" and "after" in temporal directions, in temporal questions, and in pictorial events through the use of three interview methods. The subjects for the study were 62 children, ranging in age from 40 to 80 months, enrolled in a half-day, private nursery/kindergarten…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words
Klein-Andreu, Flora – 1986
A study of children's egocentrism in their use of person and case examined whether 7-year-olds would tend to cast themselves as subjects in sentences using the verbs "give, show, say, tell, and lend," and what role they might assign the hearer. In 85 utterances, the children (N=17), with an average age of 7.8 years, showed the expected…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Egocentrism, Form Classes (Languages)
Mulford, Randa; Morgan, James L. – 1983
A study of young children's assignment of nouns to gender categories and general mastery of the Icelandic gender system is reported. An examination of what is involved in the induction of formal categories such as gender introduces the proposal of a "principle of localness." This principle states that the closer in proximity a closed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Case Studies, Child Language, Error Patterns
Viaggio, Sergio – 1991
A cloze-type procedure can be used effectively to teach interpreters how to anticipate what the speaker will say, inferring communicative intention. The exercise uses a text from which words are deleted, not randomly as in the true cloze procedure, but in significant locations or contexts. The words or groups of words suppressed are progressively…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Evens, Martha; And Others – 1986
Advanced learners of second languages and natural language processing systems both demand much more detailed lexical information than conventional dictionaries provide. Text composition, whether by humans or machines, requires a thorough understanding of relationships between words, such as selectional restrictions, case patterns, factives, and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Parish, Charles; Perkins, Kyle – 1984
This study investigates the extent to which beginning to advanced students of English as a second language (ESL) understand antecedent/anaphora relationships in written discourse. The findings are related to previous research on anaphoric reference in first and second language contexts, emphasizing the significance of this factor in measurement of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, English (Second Language)
Bray, Candice; And Others – 1983
An analysis of the use of attenuation (structural or semantic softening of the speech act) and sentence structure in elicited speech acts by normally developing, learning disabled, and developmentally delayed populations is presented. In the normally developing population (1) the development of attenuation strategies is different from structural…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages)