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Download full textOlney, Andrew M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
This paper explores a general approach to paraphrase generation using a pre-trained seq2seq model fine-tuned using a back-translated anatomy and physiology textbook. Human ratings indicate that the paraphrase model generally preserved meaning and grammaticality/fluency: 70% of meaning ratings were above 75, and 40% of paraphrases were considered…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar
Köroglu, Zehra – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study has been conducted to evaluate the transition marker (TM) usage in the doctoral dissertations written by the native speakers (NSs) of English and the Turkish speakers (TSs) of English. The purpose is to compare the TM usage in the introduction, results and discussion, and conclusion sections by both groups' randomly selected PhD…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Can, Cem; Yakut, Ilyas – Online Submission, 2018
Loosely attached to other syntactic elements in an utterance, pragmatic markers (PM) are one of the most frequented pragmatic elements that fulfill various functions. Among a great number of PMs encountered in daily conversations, I think is one of the most prevalent PMs in native speaker and non-native speaker discourse. Thus, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, Syntax, English (Second Language)
Günes, Hilal – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2017
The quality of a writing highly depends on cohesion and coherence as they affect the tone of writing to a great extent. Linking adverbials (LAs) are among the types of cohesive devices which help connect ideas in a more smooth way. However, use of linking adverbials is often problematic for non-native speakers of English as they often overuse,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkAltinkamis, N. Feyza; Kern, Sophie; Sofu, Hatice – First Language, 2014
The main goal of this article is to study the respective role of language typology and context on the noun to verb asymmetry in caregiver speech. The speech of 20 French- and 20 Turkish-speaking mothers addressed to their children in two different situations (book-reading and toy-play) were analysed in terms of noun to verb ratio as well as in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, French, Mothers, Toys
Akbas, Erdem – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
This study explores interactional metadiscourse resources in master's dissertations (introductions and conclusions) of Turkish students written in Turkish and English. Interactional resources were identified according to Hyland and Tse's (2004) framework by using WordSmith Tools (5.0). A statistically significant difference between two groups of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse, Turkish
