Corpora in language acquisition research

... successful acquisition of a second language At the same time it is necessary to view motivation as one of a number of variables in an intricate model of interrelated individual and situational factors ... the individual difference variables alters For example, in a formal setting intelligence and aptitude play a dominant role in learning, while exerting a weaker infl...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... role in discipline and motivation maintenance 1.5 Definition of Second Language Acquisition Since the early childhood of second language teaching, language acquisition has been a subject of interest ... Acquisition in classroom, it would look more into the contextual factors rather than the social and linguistic ones One contextual factor that has an inf...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06

... learning problem Learners are generally aware of the strategies they use and can identify what they consist of if they are asked to pay attention to what they are doing/ thinking Strategies involve ... for the significance of language learning strategies in language teaching Firstly, by examining the strategies used by second language learners dur...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... indeterminacy which does exist in language is the indeterminacy which arises from the mapping of a continuous territory onto a chart with a finite resolving power; it is not the result of an intrinsically ... intrinsically indeterminate use of a discrete set of symbols however complicated This being so, language can certainly be described in statistical terms But there is no...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... production in English as a second language Language Learning, 37, 469-481 134 Language Learning Vol 47, No Appendix A Holistic Measures of Linguistic Accuracy Hamp-Lyons & Henning (1991) Linguistic accuracy ... (continued) Studies Using Measures of Linguistic Accuracy Study Independent Accuracy variable measure L1 ratio of total English number of errors in...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:21

... 1.39(0.45) Letting α be the stretching factor, a lengthening of the signal (α > 1) can be obtained by crossfading elements KB and KA , and inserting the resulting segment KM between KA and KB A similar ... behavior of the autocorrelation function and of the time-varying energy of the signal, leading to an improvement of the sound quality obtained using WSOLA Choice of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... seem to learn more quickly and retain the learned materials better in a stress-free and comfortable environment The benefits of using games in language- learning can be summed up in nine points Games ... centered • promote communicative competence • create a meaningful context for language use • increase learning motivation • reduce learning anxiety • integrate vari...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... Honor System" in its entirety (as found in the FSU General Bulletin and in the FSU Student Handbook) and ask the instructor to clarify any of its expectations that you might not understand Note: ... (SDRC) and 2) bring a letter to the instructor from the SDRC indicating that the student needs academic accommodation and specifying the type(s) of accommodation needed This should b...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 23:20

... New Directions in Management Accounting Research: Insights from Practice Abstract Although the new economy” once again resembles the old economy, the drivers of success for many firms continue ... available upon request from the authors ii New Directions in Management Accounting Research: Insights from Practice Introduction and Motivation While some aspe...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... ) output Lexicon, a set of phrase-meaning pairs 1: main 2: for training example (ei , pi ) 3: Update((ei , pi )) 4: end for 5: OutputLexicon() 6: end main 7: 8: 9: 10: Online Lexicon Learning ... connected subgraphs for each navigation plan in the training examples and discard the original graph Pseudocode for the new algorithm, Subgraph Generation Online Lexicon Learning...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... inadequacies of the previous approaches to language acquisition, we will propose a theory that aims to meet language learnability and language development conditions simultaneously Our theory draws ... assumed, the actual process of language acquisition is no more remarkable than generic psychological models of learning The selectionist theory, if correct, show an example...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20