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Invalid Syntax: NooJ Assisted Automatic Detection of Errors in Auxiliaries and Past Participles in Italian

2017

The work targets two areas of Italian morphosyntax: auxiliary selection (AS) and past participle agreement (PPA). In selecting such inflectional morphemes, learners of Italian commit frequent errors, even after a long period of constant study. We aim to enclose AS and PPA within the boundaries of NLP in order that a tool can be developed with a twofold purpose: first, it helps experts to build specific computer drills regarding AS and PPA; second, it assists self-taught learners in verifying whether their periphrastic sentences in Italian are well-turned. This area of Computer-Assisted Language Learning is currently poorly investigated. Further research might substantiate the importance of …

business.industryComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectComputer Science (all)Foreign languageCommitInflectional morpheme generationLanguage acquisitioncomputer.software_genreSyntaxAgreementSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E LinguisticaMorphemeCALLSelection (linguistics)Mathematics (all)Artificial intelligencebusinessParticiplecomputerAutomatic identification of grammatical relationNatural language processingmedia_common
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The European sTANDEM project for certification in medical English: standards, acceptability and transgression(s)

2014

In the global world of international communication, employers or institutions that wish to determine the language skills of non-native speakers of English usually turn to generalist proficiency tests such as the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or the slightly more business-oriented TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication). These tests enable test takers to certify that they have reached a certain level in skills needed in everyday life and, sometimes, workplace situations, but they do not assess language skills for specific purposes.Aware of this vacuum, a consortium of European teachers/researchers and international experts in the domain of medical English unde…

certificationanglais de spécialité[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureacceptabilitéContext (language use)Certification[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureInternational communicationLanguage assessmentacceptabilityPedagogyMedicinelanguage assessmentComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUStransgression(s)Medical educationbusiness.industryCommon European Framework of Reference for LanguagesGeneral Medicine[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature[SHS.GENRE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studiesTOEICévaluation de la langueEnglish for Medical Purposes (EMP)[ SHS.GENRE ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studiesTest (assessment)Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)CECRL (Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues)standardsTest of English as a Foreign LanguageEnglish for Specific Purposes (ESP)anglais médicalbusiness[SHS.GENRE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studies
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Views on cooperative learning held by foreign language teachers : Henna Pitkäranta

2000

colleagialityin-service trainingcurriculumforeign language teachingcooperative learning
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Student w roli słuchacza na zajęciach języka polskiego jako obcego

2022

The purpose of this article is to verify what communication roles the learner of Polish as a foreign language plays in improving listening skills (and in which communication systems). The author, referring to the concepts of Michel Rost and Denis McQuail, analyzes teaching tasks and correlated texts present in three selected coursebooks for A2 level. The research shows that the teaching tasks do little to prepare learners for authentic listening in natural communicative contexts: students play little differentiated roles in only two systems. In the author’s view, listening instruction should be consciously and deliberately planned for the sake of authenticity and functionalism in PFL teachi…

communicationlisteningPolish as a foreign languageA2 levelAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia ad Didacticam Litterarum Polonarum et Linguae Polonae Pertinentia
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The use of technological devices in English teaching as experienced by teachers

2017

Teknologiaa on käytetty osana opetusta jo vuosikymmenten ajan. Tekniikan kehitys ja saatavuus ovat kuitenkin muuttuneet laajalti vuosien aikana. Nykyään sekä koulun tarjoamat, että oppilaiden omat laitteet ovat vahvasti läsnä kielten opetuksessa. Laitteiden kirjo on moninaistunut uusien laitteiden myötä. Luokassa saattaa olla hyvin laaja kirjo erilaisia laitteita, joita opettaja voi hyödyntää osana opetustaan. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää tämän hetkistä tilannetta englannin opetuksessa yläkoulussa ja lukiossa. Tutkimus kartoittaa, minkälaisia laitteita opetuksessa käytetään, ja miksi. Lisäksi pyritään selvittämään millaisia hyötyjä ja haittoja teknologian käytöstä on vieraiden kie…

computer-assisted language learningICTforeign language teaching
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Konkordances atbalstīta angļu valodas kā svešvalodas apguve vidusskolas skolēniem

2018

Mūsdienu pasauli raksturo tehnoloģiju straujā attīstība, kā arī angļu valodas kā lingua franca statusa nostiprināšanās. Diplomdarba mērķis ir atrast rīku, kas nodrošinātu jauniešiem nepieciešamās svešvalodas prasmes. Pētījumā tika ievākti dati no 203 anketām un piecām intervijām ar mērķi noskaidrot vidusskolas skolēnu valodas apguves ieradumus. Pētījums atklāja, ka vidusskolas skolēni savā ikdienā plaši pielieto tehnoloģijas un ir atvērti tehnoloģijās balstītai svešvalodas apguvei. Tādēļ izaicinājumi, kurus rada angļu valodas kā svešvalodas apguve, piemēram, gramatika, idiomas un pareizrakstība, varētu tikt risināti ar tehnoloģiju starpniecību. Konkordancē balstīta svešvalodas apguve tika p…

concordanceconcordance-aided language learningtext corporaPedagoģijathe English language as a foreign languagesecondary school students
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Pronunciation exercises in two upper secondary school EFL course books

2016

Ääntämys kuuluu olennaisena osana vieraan kielen oppimiseen ja opettamiseen. Ääntäminen antaa ensivaikutelman vieraan kielen puhujan kielitaidosta, ja ymmärrettävä ääntämys on ensisijaisen tärkeää vieraskielisessä vuorovaikutuksessa. Tästä huolimatta ääntämys oli pitkään laiminlyöty osa-alue vieraan kielen oppimisen ja opettamisen tutkimuksessa. Viime vuosina kiinnostus ääntämisen oppimisen ja opettamisen tutkimukseen on kuitenkin noussut, mutta tutkimuksia oppikirjojen ja ääntämyksen suhteesta on vähän. Tämän tutkielman päämääränä on ollut selvittää yhtäläisyyksiä ja eroja ääntämyksen esittämisessä kahdessa suomalaisessa lukiotason englannin kielen kurssikirjassa. Aineisto on koottu kahdes…

content analysisPronunciationforeign language learningcourse books
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Perception et traque de “l'accent etranger” : la production des voyelles orales en fle par des polonophones

2017

Our research fits in the overall framework of French as a Foreign Language oral teaching methods and focuses will deal with the phenomenon of “foreign accent”, those marks that reveal in transparency the presence of the phonological sieve of the mother tongue, and we will focus on the pronunciation of oral vowels in French by Polish-speaking learners. A preliminary study, descriptive and contrastive, of the phonological systems of Polish and French will allow us to make assumptions about perceptible interferences in the pronunciation of spoken French which might be at the origin of noise in the psycholinguistic decoding. Acoustic analyses of speech corpuses, based on the previous hypotheses…

contrastive phoneticsFrench as a Foreign LanguagePolish learnersinterlanguageoral didacticsEcho des études romanes
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Multimodale Analyse von Interaktion im fremdsprachlichen Klassenzimmer

2016

The article offers a contribution to the interaction research in the foreign language teaching and learning. It starts with an overview of various research approaches to the foreign language teaching and learning, from the 60s to the present days. A multimodal analysis of an excerpt of videorecorded classroom interaction is then provided. The analysis is focused on several aspects of classroom participation and teaching sequences. Some implications of the present research for teachers' training are finally provided.

conversation analysiinteraction in foreign language classroommultimodal analysitraining for foreign language teachinginteraction in foreign language classroom; conversation analysis; multimodal analysis; training for foreign language teachinganalisi multimodale approccio semiotico interazione in classe
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The nature of EFL conversation in classroom and net-based learning environment

2007

conversation analysiskeskustelutietokoneavusteinen opetusclassroom conversationforeign language learningkieletopetuscomputer-mediated communicationethnographyenglannin kieli
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