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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
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
Heil, Jeanne; López, Luis – Second Language Research, 2020
This article provides a Poverty of Stimulus argument for the participation of a dedicated linguistic module in second language acquisition. We study the second language (L2) acquisition of a subset of English infinitive complements that exhibit the following properties: (a) they present an intricate web of grammatical constraints while (b) they…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics, Grammar
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
Kimmelman, Vadim; Vink, Lianne – Sign Language Studies, 2017
Several sign languages of the world utilize a construction that consists of a question followed by an answer, both of which are produced by the same signer. For American Sign Language, this construction has been analyzed as a discourse-level rhetorical question construction (Hoza et al. 1997), as a single-sentence question-answer pair (Caponigro…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Variation, Sentence Structure, Computational Linguistics
Okuyama, Yasuhiro – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This study aims to analyze the use of tense and aspect in academic writing in engineering with a major focus on the use of simple past and present perfect. In general, one of the most difficult items for Japanese EFL learners is the appropriate use of tense and aspect. The previous literature pointed out that ESL learners are often confused about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Haladzhun, Zoriana – Advanced Education, 2019
The article outlines lingual features of the "evaluative judgement" construct, being new for the Ukrainian journalistic practices. By means of analysing the structural elements of this construct, the author defines its linguistic features as well as comes up with lexicogrammatical and stylistic means representing the "evaluative…
Descriptors: Journalism, Ukrainian, Language Usage, Language Styles
Li, Xi-ping – English Language Teaching, 2021
Writing is one of productive skills and a way of conveying information considered to be the most complex and the most challenging skill for EFL English learners to acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on the revelation of the characteristic of writings of EFL learners and how to improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Williams-van Klinken, Catharina; Hajek, John – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
Tetun Dili, an Austronesian language spoken in East Timor, was until 1999 primarily an oral language of intercultural communication. Since the 1999 vote on independence from Indonesia, Tetun Dili has become the dominant language of public life, including the government, education and the media, as well as becoming an official language alongside…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Portuguese, Translation, Official Languages
Giampieri, Patrizia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper will present a translation project with second-year bachelor students together with some observational data. The students firstly translated an academic abstract from Italian (their first language) to English by using the language resources they were acquainted with. Then they translated a second abstract by using a pre-compiled offline…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Translation, Undergraduate Students
Deng, Xiangjun; Mai, Ziyin; Yip, Virginia – First Language, 2018
This study examines the "ba" and "bei" constructions in Mandarin using data from the Tong corpus, a new multimedia longitudinal child language corpus. A unified aspectual account of the two constructions is proposed: both require telic predicates, and should thus correlate with the perfective rather than imperfective aspect for…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics
Mughaz, Dror; Cohen, Michael; Mejahez, Sagit; Ades, Tal; Bouhnik, Dan – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2020
Aim/Purpose: Using Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning (DL) techniques, which mimic the action of the brain, to improve a student's grammar learning process. Finding the subject of a sentence using DL, and learning, by way of this computer field, to analyze human learning processes and mistakes. In addition, showing Artificial Intelligence…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Grammar
Allen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
The current study examined the degree to which the quality and characteristics of students' essays could be modeled through dynamic natural language processing analyses. Undergraduate students (n = 131) wrote timed, persuasive essays in response to an argumentative writing prompt. Recurrent patterns of the words in the essays were then analyzed…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Natural Language Processing
Römer, Ute; Berger, Cynthia M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Based on writing produced by second language learners at different proficiency levels (CEFR A1 to C1), we adopted a usage-based approach (Ellis, Römer, & O'Donnell, 2016; Tyler & Ortega, 2018) to investigate how German and Spanish learner knowledge of 19 English verb-argument constructions (VACs; e.g., "V with n," illustrated by…
Descriptors: German, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mansouri, Aous – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation uses a corpus of tokens retrieved from broadcast news stories and print news articles to examine the array of constructions used to encode stative predications in Modern Standard Arabic. A state is defined as a situation that includes its reference time, whether that time is encoding time or another time of orientation. A range…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Computational Linguistics, News Reporting, Grammar