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Van Waes, Luuk; Leijten, Marielle; Quinlan, Thomas – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
In this study we investigated the role of reading, how writers coordinate editing with other writing processes. In particular, the experiment examines how the cognitive demands of sentence composing and the type of error influence the reading and writing performance. We devised an experimental writing task in which participants corrected an…
Descriptors: Reading, Role, Writing Processes, Editing
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De Felice, Rachele; Pulman, Stephen – CALICO Journal, 2009
In this article, we present an approach to the automatic correction of preposition errors in L2 English. Our system, based on a maximum entropy classifier, achieves average precision of 42% and recall of 35% on this task. The discussion of results obtained on correct and incorrect data aims to establish what characteristics of L2 writing prove…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Form Classes (Languages), Error Correction, Second Language Learning