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Modeling Comprehension Processes via Automated Analyses of Dialogism
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Dascalu, Mihai; Allen, Laura K.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Trausan-Matu, Stefan; Crossley, Scott A. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Dialogism provides the grounds for building a comprehensive model of discourse and it is focused on the multiplicity of perspectives (i.e., voices). Dialogism can be present in any type of text, while voices become themes or recurrent topics emerging from the discourse. In this study, we examine the extent that differences between…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Protocol Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Automation
Does the Advanced Proficiency Evaluated in Oral-Like Written Text Support Syntactic Parsing in a Written Academic Text among L2 Japanese Learners?
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Kitajima, Ryu – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Corpus linguistics identifies the qualitative difference in the characteristics of spoken discourse vs. written academic discourse. Whereas spoken discourse makes greater use of finite dependent clauses functioning as constituents in other clauses, written academic discourse incorporates noun phrase constituents and complex phrases. This claim can…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Protocol Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning
An Analysis of Evaluative Comments in Teachers' Online Discussions of Representations of Practice
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Chieu, Vu Minh; Kosko, Karl W.; Herbst, Patricio G. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
It has been common to use video records of instruction in teacher professional development, but participants have rarely been encouraged to evaluate teachers and students' actions in those records, allegedly because evaluation deters from the development of a professional discourse. In this study, we inspected teachers' online discussions of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Protocol Analysis, Protocol Materials, Discourse Analysis
Automated Writing Evaluation for Non-Native Speaker English Academic Writing: The Case of IADE and Its Formative Feedback
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Cotos, Elena – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation presents an innovative approach to the development and empirical evaluation of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) technology used for teaching and learning. It introduces IADE (Intelligent Academic Discourse Evaluator), a new web-based AWE program that analyzes research article Introduction sections and generates immediate,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
Knowledge Digraph Contribution Analysis of Protocol Data.
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Golden, Richard M. – Discourse Processes, 1998
Introduces the Knowledge Digraph Contribution (KDC) data-analysis methodology for quantitatively measuring the degree to which a given knowledge digraph can account for the occurrence of specific sequences of propositions in recall, summarization, talk-aloud and question-answering protocol data. Notes the applicability of this approach to the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Knowledge Representation, Language Research, Memory
L'application d'un modele mathematique a l'analyse de dissertations en langue seconde: utile ou pas (Application of a Mathematical Model in the Analysis of Essays in a Second Language: Useful or Not?)?
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Corbeil, Giselle – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
A study analyzed the second-language essays of seven anglophone and one French-speaking Quebec university students enrolled in a literature course by using a cognitive-metacognitive framework developed for mathematical problem-solving and a think-aloud protocol. Results indicate the framework, with some adjustments, is a reliable tool for…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Essays, Foreign Countries, Higher Education