Search results for "Grammar"
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Fusion of visual tools in virtual spaces
1996
Virtual space environment may be improved by combining it with graphical and visual tools. This paper analyses an integrated system able to merge fusion techniques, icons tools and a virtual space environment. A virtual space is characterised by a set of dynamic visual icons and by a heterogeneous virtual reality environment. Their integration is supported by virtual icon grammar (VIG) working on dynamic icons and virtual world. VIG allows to test the actions made by dynamic icons on the activated Virtual World metaphors at a time “t”, and a range of different transactions that place between user and VW(visual query, view and browse of under-world,...), moreover, user can define, modify and…
Vācu valoda kā svešvaloda. Latviešu un angļu valoda – palīgs vācu valodas apguvē
2016
Šajā darbā tiek pētītas jaunas alternatīvas mācību prakses vācu valodas kā svešvalodas mācīšanai pieaugušajiem un demonstrētas jaunas pieejas šo mācību optimizēšanai. Svarīgākais instruments ir vairāku valodu izmantošana mācību laikā, īpaši, latviešu un angļu. Šī darba mērķis ir pārbaudīt un pilnveidot pašlaik valodu apguves procesā izmantotās metodoloģijas piemērotību. Darbā izklāstīts pētāmā jautājuma teorētiskais pamatojums; praktiskajā daļā īpaši detalizēti tiek analizēti jauni, autora izstrādāti valodas mācību materiāli.
Revista iberoamericana de educación
2012
Título, resumen y palabras clave en español, portugués e inglés Monográfico con el título: "Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura" Resumen tomado de la publicación Se centra en la relación didáctica entre la gramática, entendida como reflexión sobre la lengua, y la mejora del uso lingüístico. Para ello, se aborda, en primer lugar, la finalidad de la enseñanza de las lenguas en los currículos escolares y el papel que se atribuye a la reflexión gramatical en ellos. A continuación, se muestra la importancia de las investigaciones sobre la actividad metalingüística de los hablantes para un planteamiento de la gramática en función del uso. Por último, se revisan algunas vías exploradas por la i…
On the Non-uniform Redundancy of Representations for Grammatical Evolution: The Influence of Grammars
2018
The representation used in grammatical evolution (GE) is non-uniformly redundant as some phenotypes are represented by more genotypes than others. This article studies how the non-uniform redundancy of the GE representation depends on various types of grammars. When constructing the phenotype tree from a genotype, the used grammar determines Bavg, the average branching factor. Bavg measures the expected number of non-terminals chosen when mapping one genotype codon to a phenotype tree node. First, the paper illustrates that the GE representation induces a bias towards small trees. This bias gets stronger with lower Bavg. For example, when using a grammar with Bavg = 0.5, 75% of all genotype…
Podejścia do nauki o języku w dydaktyce języka polskiego jako L1
2020
The article discusses didactic approaches to teaching grammar that have been developed in Polish language didactics since the end of the 18th century: grammatical-normative, system-grammatical and functional. Subsequent approaches are presented in the historical order, but the considerations focus on their main theoretical assumptions, areas of criticism of previous approaches and methodological solutions developed on these foundations. The approach adopted has been defined as the overriding principle of understanding the learning process.
Input vs. intake in formative assessment and explicit grammar teaching Do the students understand what we are talking about?
2020
The relevance of explicit grammar instruction in foreign language classrooms has been discussed widely in the past, but there is no consensus regarding what is the best approach or how much time should be spent on explicit grammar teaching. This paper presents the results of three studies which focus on students’ knowledge of explicit grammar, their understanding of metalinguistic terminology, and their ability to correct agreement errors in their texts as a response to formative assessment. In the first study, the effect of different types of formative feedback on the improvement in agreement marking accuracy was tested. As there were no statistically significant differences found, two fol…
Imagined communities against the tide? The questioned political projection of nationalism
2017
This article deals with the validity of Anderson’s definition of imagined communities and the future of imagination typical of nationalism. It is based on bibliographic review and research on the case of Cerdanya. Three questions of Anderson’s definition are revised: the limitation of the nation, its supposedly inherent sovereignty and the sense of community among unknown people. In this last point, the text focuses also on the consequences that imagined community is embodied for known people every day. It concludes that the production of local identities and dynamics in global, local and regional level represents a challenge for the political projection of imagined communities. Nevertheles…
Domain Adaptation of Landsat-8 and Proba-V Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks for Cloud Detection
2019
Training machine learning algorithms for new satellites requires collecting new data. This is a critical drawback for most remote sensing applications and specially for cloud detection. A sensible strategy to mitigate this problem is to exploit available data from a similar sensor, which involves transforming this data to resemble the new sensor data. However, even taking into account the technical characteristics of both sensors to transform the images, statistical differences between data distributions still remain. This results in a poor performance of the methods trained on one sensor and applied to the new one. In this this work, we propose to use the generative adversarial networks (G…
Categorization in Discourse and Grammar
2016
This collection of papers addresses new trends in Cognitive Linguistics. Three parts of the book focus on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Integration Network Analysis. Both the theoretical contributions and the empirical case studies stress the importance of contextual factors in the meaning making processes. They employ qualitative methods to analyze the use of metaphor in political discourse and in the conceptualization of emotions. The data sets include multimodal data, sign languages and co-speech gestures. The fourth part of the book contains two corpus-based studies. The fifth part concentrates on the grammatical categories of passive voice and aspect. One contribution discusses the pr…
Prominence Facilitates Ambiguity Resolution: On the Interaction Between Referentiality, Thematic Roles and Word Order in Syntactic Reanalysis
2011
In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the relationship between the subject preference in the resolution of subject-object ambiguities in German embedded clauses and semantic word order constraints (i.e., prominence hierarchies relating to the specificity/referentiality of noun phrases, case assignment and thematic role assignment). Our central research question concerned the timecourse with which prominence information is used and particularly whether it modulates the subject preference. In both experiments, we replicated previous findings of reanalysis effects for object-initial structures. Our findings further suggest that noun phrase prominence does not alter initial parsing s…