... language learners during the languagelearning process, educators and
researchers can gain insights into the metacognitive, cognitive, social, and affective
processes involved inlanguage learning. ... speaking, several studies in the field have agreed on the powerful impact
of learning strategies on the learningand teaching of foreign andsecond language.
Good choice and use of learning ... objective, systematic
process in which numerical data are utilized to obtain information about the world"
(Burns and Grove cited in Cormack, 1991:140).
Information and findings, then, can...
... Teachers
In order to make the languagelearning process a more motivating experience instructors
need to put a great deal of thought into developing programs which maintain student
interest and ... contributing factor insecondlanguage (L2) acquisition. Motivation is defined as the
learner's orientation with regard to the goal of learning a second language. Motivation is
divided into ... potential
for integrating into the target language community.
Instrumental Motivation
In contrast to integrative motivation is the form of motivation referred to as instrumental
motivation. This...
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Materials recording and editing. Two video-recording ses-
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Lansing, C. R., & McConkie,...
... reading and memorizing, describ ing and classifying, and representing and visua-
lizing. In data management, I organized files and units of verbal reports manually,
using index cards including ... on domains. Ge e defined authentic learningin a domain as learning that “leads
to growing mastery of the semiotic domain’s design grammar and growing member-
ship in its associated affinity group” ... three
major components of reading: (a) decoding (extracting linguistic information directly
from print); (b) text-information building (integrating the extracted information into
written form); and...
... reading and memorizing, describ ing and classifying, and representing and visua-
lizing. In data management, I organized files and units of verbal reports manually,
using index cards including ... three
major components of reading: (a) decoding (extracting linguistic information directly
from print); (b) text-information building (integrating the extracted information into
written form); and ... embedding and expanding these experiences (Rosenblatt
1978). Thus, learning always requires domains in situated contexts. While ELLs make
meaning from text within the domains or about domains,...
... successful insecondlanguage learning.
The importance of motivationinsecondlanguage learning
Languagelearning is remarkably different from other kinds of learning because of its
social nature. Learning ... organized into six parts : (1) Definition of motivation, (2) The importance of
motivation insecondlanguage learning, (3) Types of motivationinsecondlanguage
learning, (4) Literature inlanguage ... Attitudesandmotivationinsecond
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... Computational Linguistics
Exploiting Social Information in Grounded LanguageLearning via
Grammatical Reductions
Mark Johnson
Department of Computing
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
Mark.Johnson@MQ.edu.au
Katherine ... social informa-
tion sources during word learning.
1 Introduction
From learning sounds to learning the meanings of
words, social interactions are extremely important
for children’s early language ... generalisations
here. The main challenge in this reduction is finding
a way of expressing the non-linguistic information
as part of the strings that serve as the grammatical in-
ference procedure’s input. Here...
...
mentioned that rst language literacy andlearning can be a benet to L2
acquisition. Language devices and concepts learned in a rst language
make learning the secondlanguage easier because ... re-learn, in the new language, what they already know in their native
language. Understanding a concept in the rst language requires only a
re-labelling of terms in the secondlanguageand not ...
native language grammar and structure exists when acquiring a second
language. Furthermore, when a person is learning a second language,
he/she uses his native language to support and make the...
... and Semantic Pro-
cessing in Parsing and
Generation
In parsing and generation, case and seman-
tic processing occurs by unification without
any procedural programming.
The initial tree structure ... examined,
the SATs recorded in the temporary stack are
returned into the main stack. And then the
SAT constructed as explained in the above is
pushed into the main stack. If, later on, the
SATs marked ... of the link
word be the first argument and retain-
ing the second argument, generate2 is
called.
In the following, searching of the au-
tonomous word and handing their 2 nodes off
to generate2 are...
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Tomoya Mizumoto, Mamoru Komachi, Masaaki Nagata,
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Cerstin Mahlow and Michael Piotrowski. 2008. Linguis-
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Tomoya ... the Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI).
1 Introduction
Learner corpora have been playing an increasingly
important role in both SecondLanguage Acquisition
and Foreign Language Teaching research (Granger,
2004;...
... Engineering and Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
{karim@cs,bilmes@ee}.washington.edu
Abstract
Sitting at the intersection between statis-
tics and machine learning, ... methods for the automatic learning of
edit costs, such as in (Ristad and Yianilos, 1998) in
the case of string edit distance andin (Neuhaus and
Bunke, 2004) for graph edit distance.
In this paper ... mem-
oryless transducer of string pairs. Below we sum-
marize their main idea and introduce our notation,
which will be useful later on.
We are interested in modeling the joint probability
P (S
m
1
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m
1
,...
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Ronald
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interpretation rules,
and
(3) it allows algorithmic
determination...
... tense/aspect (incorrect tense, not incorrect
formation)
16 voice (incorrect voice, not incorrect formation)
17 17 verb formation (including no auxiliary verb, lack
of “to” with infinitive, participle ... Reliability
Writing
sample
Signifi-
cance
L1 L2 Level Intrarater Interrater
Results and Discussion
Holistic Scale
An initial scoring of all 38 essays resulted in the intra -and
interrater reliabilities in ... Language Writ-
ing, Language Learning, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, Language Testing, and TESOL Quarterly. I included
Kroll’s (1990) study in the list as well. Database...