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Nicula, Bogdan; Dascalu, Mihai; Newton, Natalie; Orcutt, Ellen; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to automatically assess the quality of paraphrases can be very useful for facilitating literacy skills and providing timely feedback to learners. Our aim is twofold: a) to automatically evaluate the quality of paraphrases across four dimensions: lexical similarity, syntactic similarity, semantic similarity and paraphrase quality, and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Networks, Semantics, Feedback (Response)
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Canals, Laia – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The present research explores the interactional nature of oral tasks carried out in two types of learner dyads in terms of their likelihood to foster negotiation for meaning during Language Related Episodes (LREs). Quantitative data analyses reveal how learners in same L1 dyads, Spanish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, and in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sarabi, M. K.; Gafoor, K. Abdul – Online Submission, 2017
Difficulties in mathematics learning are a multi-faceted issue and the role of language in it is crucial. Language of mathematics includes mathematics text, discourse in classroom and language used in evaluation situations with its specific verbal, symbolic expressions, structure and function. Ambiguity arising from the difference between formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Language Skills
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Crossley, Scott; Barnes, Tiffany; Lynch, Collin; McNamara, Danielle S. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
This study takes a novel approach toward understanding success in a math course by examining the linguistic features and affect of students' language production within a blended (with both on-line and traditional face to face instruction) undergraduate course (n=158) on discrete mathematics. Three linear effects models were compared: (a) a…
Descriptors: Success, Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Blended Learning
Ünal, Menderes; Yagci, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of the study is to identify students' misuse of language in the frame of information and communication technologies with their self-evaluation and determine the recommendations to find out ways to overcome misuse of the Turkish language. In the study, among the qualitative research methods the case study was used. University students were…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Language Usage, Turkish, Telecommunications
Marin, Diego – Bulletin Real Academia Espanola, 1976
While the prenominal or postnominal position of descriptive adjectives in Spanish has been widely discussed, there is a partial aspect of this topic which is either ignored or dealt with in a perfunctory manner, namely, the possible existence of a semantic principle determining the sequence of descriptive adjectives in coordinate series of two or…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Grammar, Language Usage, Semantics
Linnell, Julian – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This study investigates if negotiation can affect syntacticization in the learning of second language (L2) syntax. Evidence from a number of studies has suggested that linguistic modification occurs during negotiation, but no research has examined if such modifications assist the learning of syntax in a second language. This study examined to what…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Usage
Bierschenk, Inger – 1989
This paper proposes to give an evolutionary background to a method developed for the analysis of language seen as expression of intention and morality--the method is named "Perspective Text Analysis." The paper argues that this name indicates that beyond the physical dimension of a text there is a metaphysical one, which can be…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Role
Spears, Arthur K. – 1980
In Black English (BE), in addition to the motion verb "come," there exists a modal-like "come" which expresses speaker indignation. This "come" is comparable to other modal-like forms, identical to motion verbs, which occur in Black and non-Black varieties of English, and which signal various degrees of disapproval.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Grammar, Language Usage
de Villiers, Jill – 1983
The influence of maternal use of verbs upon a child's developing rule system for verb usage was examined. Previously reported data (Brown, 1983) on mother-to-child speech were analyzed. Thirteen different contexts for verb use were identified. There was a close resemblance between the way the child and his mother distributed their uses of verbs.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Learning Processes
Greenbaum, Sidney – 1976
The author of this paper argues that, in the study of current usage, we need to supplement data from corpus studies by using methods that elicit use, reports of use, and evaluations of use on items which interest them. Ten methods for experimental elicitation of such data are described, related to one another, and illustrated with examples of data…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
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Yamamoto, Akira Y.; Mathias, Gerald B. – 1975
The possibility is suggested that the meanings of words are abstracted far beyond the range of cognitive concept, and that the role words play in the meaning of sentences is similar to the role phonemes play in the meanings of words. The meanings of the various forms are classed into a single paradigm known as the verb "mot-u" which is one of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Japanese, Language Patterns, Language Research
Wolfram, Walt – 1975
Full reading comprehension is dependent on a knowledge of language usage, specifically, how syntactic constructions function in relation to pragmatic knowledge. To avoid some of the problems which might arise concerning the pragmatic aspects of reading comprehension, the following steps may be taken: teach children very early the relationship…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Factual Reading, Grammar
Delbecque, N.; De Kock, J. – 1981
The criteria employed in most textbooks to differentiate "ser" and "estar" followed by an adjective are mainly semantic. Most exercises offer to second language learners too high a proportion of "estar" usages, a practice that leads to overgeneralization with regard to the use of "estar." An experiment was…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Error Analysis (Language), Language Research, Language Usage
van Oosten, Jeanne – 1977
Criteria for defining individual members of the preposition word class are set forth. Arguments are presented against calling prepositions meaningless, yet it is conceded and explained that those which occur in wider contexts are vaguer due to their greater variability. The unitary, polysemous, and/or homonymous nature of prepositions are…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Definitions, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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