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Dominguez, Laura; Hicks, Glyn; Song, Hee-Jeong – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
This study offers a Minimalist analysis of the L2 acquisition of binding properties whereby cross-linguistic differences arise from the interaction of anaphoric feature specifications and operations of the computational system (Reuland 2001, 2011; Hicks 2009). This analysis attributes difficulties in the L2 acquisition of locality and orientation…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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Jalilifar, Alireza; Mehrabi, Khodayar – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2014
The current study provided cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary analyses of the distribution of directives in discussion and conclusion sections of English and Persian research articles (RAs) in disciplines of physics, chemistry, counseling, and sociology, representing hard and soft sciences, respectively. To that aim, 80 RAs from both English…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Cross Cultural Studies, Indo European Languages, English
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Tizazu, Yoseph – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study reports the dominant linguistic errors that occur in the written productions of Arba Minch University (hereafter AMU) students. A sample of paragraphs was collected for two years from students ranging from freshmen to graduating level. The sampled compositions were then coded, described, and explained using error analysis method. Both…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Morphology (Languages)
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Jishvithaa, Joanna M.; Tabitha, M.; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research paper aims to explore the usage of the English Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense Verb, using corpus based method among Malaysian form 4 and form 5 students. This study is conducted by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense verb in students' compositions from the MCSAW corpus…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Learning
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Vettorel, Paola; Lopriore, Lucilla – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This article aims to explore whether well-attested findings in the fields of World Englishes (WE) and of English as a lingua franca (ELF) have determined a shift in perspective in the overall approach to English language teaching (ELT), and how far this shift has permeated teaching materials and coursebooks. The research study was carried out in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Neary-Sundquist, Colleen A. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This study examines the use of cohesive devices (pragmatic markers and conjunctions) in a 24,000-word corpus of transcribed oral data from 47 learners and native speakers of English. Both of these cohesive devices increase with proficiency level, but not in the same way. Conjunction use seems to increase steadily, and only the differences between…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Loke, Darina Lokeman; Ali, Juliana; Anthony, Norin Norain Zulkifli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions of time presented in the argumentative essays of Form 4 and Form 5 Malaysian secondary students in the MCSAW corpus. The aims were to find out the distribution patterns and the common errors in the use of preposition of time, "on" and "at". This corpus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Malcolm, Ian G. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Aboriginal English has been documented in widely separated parts of Australia and, despite some stylistic and regional variation, is remarkably consistent across the continent, and provides a vehicle for the common expression of Aboriginal identity. There is, however, some indeterminacy in the way in which the term is used in much academic and…
Descriptors: Grammar, English, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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O'Neill, Errol M. – Dimension, 2013
With the increasing availability of technology, one issue that has arisen in foreign language education is the use of online translation (OT) sites that claim to convert text from one language to another but are generally prohibited for classwork due to ethical and pedagogical concerns. In a study to explore the effects of OT usage, teacher raters…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Translation, Ethics, Teaching Methods
Callier, Patrick R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates the linguistic and social constraints on the occurrence of creaky voice quality (creak) in Beijing Mandarin (BM), as well as the effect of linguistic and prosodic context on creak's social meanings for Mandarin listeners. It is a two-phase study, composed of 1) a production study of the distribution of creak in the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Computational Linguistics
Grimes, Stephen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates statistical properties of segment collocation and syllable geometry of the Hungarian language. A corpus and dictionary based approach to studying language phonologies is outlined. In order to conduct research on Hungarian, a phonological lexicon was created by compiling existing dictionaries and corpora and using a…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Syllables, Vowels, Dictionaries
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Rytting, C. Anton; Brew, Chris; Fosler-Lussier, Eric – Journal of Child Language, 2010
Most computational models of word segmentation are trained and tested on transcripts of speech, rather than the speech itself, and assume that speech is converted into a sequence of symbols prior to word segmentation. We present a way of representing speech corpora that avoids this assumption, and preserves acoustic variation present in speech. We…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
Boxwell, Stephen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Treebanks are a necessary prerequisite for many NLP tasks, including, but not limited to, semantic role labeling. For many languages, however, treebanks are either nonexistent or too small to be useful. Time-critical applications may require rapid deployment of natural language software for a new critical language--much faster than the development…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Training, Programming, Computer System Design
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Perez-Paredes, Pascual; Sanchez-Tornel, Maria; Calero, Jose Maria Alcaraz; Jimenez, Pilar Aguado – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
Much of the research into language learners' use of corpus resources has been conducted by means of indirect observation methodologies, like questionnaires or self-reports. While this type of study provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the benefits and limitations of using corpora to teach and learn language, the use of indirect…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Web Sites, Internet, English (Second Language)
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Langston, Keith; Peti-Stantic, Anita – Language Policy, 2011
There are three main institutions in Croatia today that are actively engaged in language management activities on the national level: The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Council for the Norms of the Croatian Standard Language, and the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics. Their efforts are focused on establishing the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups)
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