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Motivation as a Contributing Factor in Second Language Acquisition

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 10:10

... Factor in Second Language Acquisition Jacqueline Norris-Holt This paper explores Gardner's socio-educational model and the significance of motivation as a contributing factor in second language ... are interrelated when learning a second language. Unlike other research carried out in the area, Gardner's model looks specifically at second language acquisition in a structured classroom ... natural environment. His work focuses on the foreign language classroom. The model attempts to interrelate four features of second language acquisition. These include the social and cultural milieu,...

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A STUDY ON THE USE OF CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE AS MOTIVATION FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEAC

Ngày tải lên : 07/09/2013, 13:06

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(1) how learners approach learning, both in and out of classrooms, and (2) the kinds of strategies and cognitive processing they use in second language acquisition

Ngày tải lên : 29/01/2014, 00:23

... improve competence in a second language . Therefore, the language learner capable of using a wide variety of language learning strategies appropriately can improve his language skills in a better ... the language learning tasks and activities are crossed modalities. Respondents were asked to describe their strategies in general in second language acquisition. Only gender differences in language ... 13 Table 1. Classifications of learning strategies in second language acquisition Primary strategy classification Representative secondary strategies Representative examples Strategies...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 04:22

... Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language Xinglong Wang Department of Informatics University of Sussex Brighton, ... knowledge acquisition process. In our experiments, we adopted Chinese as a source language to retrieve English topic signatures. Nevertheless, our technique should also work on other distant language ... data. An- other problem is that if two languages are closely related, data for some words cannot be collected because different senses of polysemous words in one language often translate to the same...

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Second language learning

Ngày tải lên : 05/02/2014, 22:31

... importance of motivation in second language learning, (3) Types of motivation in second language learning, (4) Literature in language teaching, (5) Literature in teaching language skills , (6) Folktales ... definitions of motivation in second language learning through time from different theories. The second part will discuss the importance of motivation in second language learning. As substantial ... Lalonde.R.N (1982). Second language acquisition: A causal analysis. Unpublished MA thesis. University of Western Ontario. London. Ontario 22. Lazar.G (1993). Literature and language teaching....

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Fast Online Lexicon Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 19:20

... learns to interpret the meaning of natural language. It is especially important in language ground- ing where the training data usually consist of language paired with an ambiguous perceptual context. ... 2012. c 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics Fast Online Lexicon Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition David L. Chen Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin 1616 ... been one of the ultimate goals of natural language processing (NLP). Traditional learning approaches have relied on access to parallel corpora of natural language sentences paired with their mean- ings...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Selectionist Theory of Language Acquisition" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 19:20

... leading approach to language acquisition, largely in the tradition of generative linguistics, is motivated by the fact that although child language is different from adult language, it is different ... the inadequacies of the previous approaches to language acquisition, we will pro- pose a theory that aims to meet language learn- ability and language development conditions simul- taneously. ... contact with two languages (grammars), say, T1 and T2. Since Cl > 0 and c2 > 0, [1] entails that pl and P2 reach a stable equilibrium at the end of language acquisition; that is, language learners...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Modelling Early Language Acquisition Skills: Towards a General Statistical Learning Mechanism" potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 02:20

... speed and sequence with which they learn language. Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited language acquisition nativists, claiming children can acquire language “On relatively slight exposure ... language learning capabilities, or do we solely use the input from the environment to find structure in language? Nativists believe that infants have an innate capability for acquiring language. ... Cognition , 70(1):27-52. J. R. Saffran, A. Senghashas and J. C. Trueswell. 2000. The Acquisition of Language by Children. PNAS , 98(23):12874-12875. L. ten Bosch and B. Cranen. 2007. A Computational...

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Tài liệu ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS: USING MUSIC TO ENHANCE THE LISTENING ABILITIES OF GRADE ONES ppt

Ngày tải lên : 24/02/2014, 18:20

... second language acquisition. The results are, that second language (L2) 6 learners suffer adverse results if they do not continue to develop their first language alongside the second language. ... indigenous languages of South Africa. She also finds, that very few are proficient in their home language, thus causing barriers in acquiring a second language. Second language acquisition ... 1.1 Introduction 1 1.1.1 The role of home language proficiency in second language acquisition 5 1.1.2 Music to enhance the learning of a second language 8 1.2 Motivation of the research 9...

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Tài liệu Spanish-English Writing Structure Interferences in Second Language Learners pptx

Ngày tải lên : 24/02/2014, 18:20

... mostly due to the inuence of their native language and also the lack of knowledge about the second language. Keywords: second language acquisition, second language learning, bilingual education Resumen Estudios ... http://fredshannon.blogspot.com/2005/11/input- hypothesis.html Krashen Stephen D. (1988). ”The role of rst language in second language acquisition. ” Second language acquistion and second language learning (pp.64-69). Englewood Cliff: Prentice ... rst language into the second one varied among the students, regardless of the language in which the second language is taught. This means that no matter what language the rst or the second...

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Tài liệu English as a Second Language Standards docx

Ngày tải lên : 24/02/2014, 18:20

... ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE  STANDARDS 14 Principles of Effective Second Language Learning  Based on Margaret Early, Enabling First and Second Language Learners in the Classroom, Language Arts ... words  ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE  STANDARDS 4 English as a Second Language Standards 2001 Ministry of Education Special Programs Branch 7 ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE  STANDARDS Introduction Definition ... English as a second language policy framework, 1999. IV. Title: English as a second language policy guidelines, 1999. PE1128.A2E53 2001 428.340710711 C2001-960127-1 ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE...

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Tài liệu Supporting Children Learning English as a Second Language in the Early Years (birth to six years) docx

Ngày tải lên : 24/02/2014, 18:20

... of school 16 The importance of oral English language development 16 Stages of second language acquisition 16 Use of the home language 17 Oral English language development – an overview of stages ... knowledge of language and how it works. They are practiced in communicating with others and will transfer these skills to the learning of their second language. Two types of second language acquisition ... their ﬁrst language at home, while learning English as a second language in child care or family day care. Children learning English as a second language need explicit modelling and language...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition" docx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 04:22

... 27 (4), 605-622. Briscoe, T. (2000). Grammatical acquisition: Inductive bias and coevolution of language and the language acquisition device. Language, 76 (2), 245-296. Chomsky, N. (1981) Lectures ... investigators interested in computational models of natural language acquisition. 2 The Language Domain Database The focus of the language domain database, (hereafter LDD), is to make readily ... Linguistic Inquiry 25, 407-454. Gold, E. M. (1967) Language identification in the limit. Information and Control 10, 447-474. Hyams, N. (1986) Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters. Dordrecht:...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning" doc

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 05:20

... Learning Environment for Japanese as Second Language ”, Proceedings of AIED ’97, pp.247-254. Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning Jun’ichi Kakegawa, ... the recent classroom of second language learning, communicative approach(H.G. Wid- dowson, 1977) is promoted in which it mat- ters for the students to become aware of the language use, i.e. the ... the second arguments, respectively. generate2 is called ã If the ﬁrst argument can be uniﬁed with the second argument, generation is termi- nated. Otherwise, the process, carrying over the second...