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Kerins, John; Ramsay, Allan – ReCALL, 2012
This paper reports on the development of a prototype tool which shows how learners can be helped to reflect upon the accuracy of their writing. Analysis of samples of freely written texts by intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) showed evidence of weakness in the use of tense and aspect. Computational discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Semantics
Bloch, Joel – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
This paper discusses the use of a web-based concordancing program using an interface design similar to the one used at the MICASE concordancing site to help students appropriately choose reporting verbs. Appropriate reporting verbs are important for asserting credible claims in academic papers. An interface was created that asked the students to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Written Language, Computational Linguistics
Liu, Dilin; Jiang, Ping – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This article reports on a study that examined the effects of integrating corpus and contextualized lexicogrammar in foreign and second language teaching. The study was conducted in English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) courses at 1 Chinese university and 2 U.S. universities, involving 244 participants (236…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Languages, Discovery Learning, Course Content

Conrad, S. M. – System, 1999
Introduces the fundamental characteristics of corpus-based research and illustrates such research with a study of a complex grammatical feature in English: linking adverbials (i.e., connecting expressions such as "therefore" and "in other words"). Shows that corpus-based research is useful even with features that cannot be…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, English
Online Submission, 2010
The 4th international conference "Nation and Language: Modern Aspects of Socio-Linguistic Development" continues an eight-year old tradition. The conference is organized by Kaunas University of Technology Panevezys Institute and aims to bring scientists and researchers together for a general scientific discussion on new trends in…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Higher Education
Jabbhour, Georgette – 2001
Corpus-based instruction, also referred to as corpus-based linguistics, is essentially the study of genre texts for the production of materials that fit a specific group of second language learners. For example, if a group of students is learning the language in order to read medical articles, a specific teaching program can be set up based on the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Discourse Analysis

Liou, Hsien-Chin – System, 1992
A year-long project to develop an automatic English grammar text-analysis for Chinese students in Taiwan to help writing revision processes is described. The project analyzed 135 writing samples, developed an electronic dictionary, and researched error analysis, linguistic analysis, and natural language processing in computational linguistics.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Dictionaries
Williams, Alexander, Ed.; Kaiser, Elsi, Ed. – 2000
This issue includes the following articles: "On Negative Alternative Questions" (Chung-hye Han); "A Categorical Syntax for Verbs of Perception" (Robin Clark, Gerhard Jager); "Defective Complements in Tree Adjoining Grammar" (Seth Kulick, Robert Frank, K. Vijayshanker); "The Convergence of Lexicalist Perspectives…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, Dialects