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Cronje, J. V. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
Describes a computer program that generates a bank of items for second-language learning drills, including the differential processing of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The program is used in a New Testament Greek course at the University of the Orange Free State (South Africa), and the exercises generated are tied directly to the course textbook.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Authoring Aids (Programming), Biblical Literature, Classical Languages
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Zwitserlood, Pienie; Schriefers, Herbert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Current models of spoken-word recognition describe access to lexical representations in terms of activation and decay. This research investigated an important aspect of activation: the impact of processing time. The results showed a separable impact of time and signal on the activational state of lexical elements. (34 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Computational Linguistics
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Hernandez, Arturo E; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Investigates the real-time costs of sentence processing in early Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilinguals use an amalgam of monolingual strategies in choosing the agent of a sentence. The reaction time data reveal a larger language-specific component than the choice data. (37 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, College Students
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Raimes, Ann – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
A review of research on second-language writing instruction looks at four research approaches: the language and culture students bring with them to the classroom; contexts in which teaching/learning take place; the shape of the language curriculum; and academic writing and English for academic purposes. Attention is given to English as a Second…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies
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Fox, Edward A.; Urs, Shalini R. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2002
Provides an overview of digital libraries research, practice, and literature. Highlights include new technologies; redefining roles; historical background; trends; creating digital content, including conversion; metadata; organizing digital resources; services; access; information retrieval; searching; natural language processing; visualization;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Data Conversion
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Grigoriadou, Maria; Tsaganou, Grammatiki; Cavoura, Theodora – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
The Reflective Tutorial Dialogue System (ReTuDiS) is a system for learner modelling historical text comprehension through reflective dialogue. The system infers learners' cognitive profiles and constructs their learner models. Based on the learner model the system plans the appropriate--personalized for learners--reflective tutorial dialogue in…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Cognitive Style, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis
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Pon-Barry, Heather; Clark, Brady; Schultz, Karl; Bratt, Elizabeth Owen; Peters, Stanley; Haley, David – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
In this paper we describe the ways that SCoT, a Spoken Conversational Tutor, uses flexible and adaptive planning as well as multimodal task modeling to support the contextualization of learning in reflective dialogues. Past research on human tutoring has shown reflective discussions (discussions occurring after problem-solving) to be effective in…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, Educational Technology
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Redfern, Victoria – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2004
This paper reports the results of a University of Canberra Library survey of student research knowledge, skills, tools and resources. Students are experiencing difficulties interrogating databases, the internet and library catalogues because of the lack of consistency in terminology and various methods of interrogation. This research was an…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Reference Materials, Foreign Countries
Duran, Richard; And Others – 1995
This report examines the readiness of Latino (Hispanic descent) high school students for college-level academic work based on their reading comprehension and verbal reasoning skills. Pertinent college admissions test data and educational survey data are reviewed, and findings are discussed from a variety of research fields that sharpen the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, College Preparation
Woutersen, Mirjam – 1996
A study investigated the processes used by bilinguals for organizing vocabulary by presenting subjects with bilingual word recognition tasks in two modalities (aural and visual) and using a repetition paradigm. Subjects were asked to decide whether a word presented to them was a nonsense word or a real word. Two separate experiments are described.…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Milroy, Lesley, Ed.; Muysken, Pieter, Ed. – 1995
Fifteen articles review code-switching in the four major areas: policy implications in specific institutional and community settings; perspectives of social theory of code-switching as a form of speech behavior in particular social contexts; the grammatical analysis of code-switching, including factors that constrain switching even within a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language)
Coady, James, Ed.; Huckin, Thomas, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on second language vocabulary learning includes: "Historical Trends in Second Language Vocabulary Instruction" (Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman); "The Lexical Plight in Second Language Reading: Words You Don't Know, Words You Think You Know, and Words You Can't Guess" (Batia Laufer); "Orthographic Knowledge in L2 Lexical Processing: A…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Difficulty Level
Otsu, Yukio, Ed. – 1989
Seven original research papers are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Acquisition of the Argument-Structure of Verbs" (Mika Endo); "A Note on Semantic Selection" (Yoshio Endo); "The Governing Category Parameter in Second Language" (Makiko Hirakawa); "The Use of Connectives in English Academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Ji, Kangli – 1997
A discussion of factors that influence English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning by native speakers of Chinese focuses on three specific factors (cognitive style, individual differences, and native language interference), and offers classroom solutions. The effect of each of the three factors on ESL comprehension and production is considered,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Goodman, Yetta M.; Wilde, Sandra – 1985
Focusing on children's production of written language, a two-year study, conducted on the Oodham (Papago) Indian Reservation in Arizona, explored social context, linguistic systems, and the creation of meaning as aspects of the writing process. Ten American Indian children in third and fourth grade provided over 200 stories that formed the basic…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Child Development, Cultural Background, Elementary Education
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