cognitive models of second language acquisition

... 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 way. Metacognitive ... true of me”; (2) “Usually not true of me”, (3) “Somewhat true of me”, (4) “Usually true of me” or (5) “Always true of me”. For the convenience of the respondents and the researcher’s purpose of ... statement is (1)“Never true of me”; (2)“Usually not true of me”, (3) “Somewhat true of me”, (4) “Usually true of me” or (5) “Always true of me”. The whole set of questionnaire was translated...

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... assists in the 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 ... 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 ... for language learning. Both forms of motivation are examined in light of research which has been undertaken to establish the correlation between the form of motivation and successful second language...

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... states of each of the two models are unseen and must be inferred from the words. The problem of language understanding, then, is to recover the most likely meaning structure given a sequence of ... these techniques are capable of relatively high levels of performance. While hidden understanding models are based primarily on the concepts of hidden Markov models, we have also shown their ... techniques. Empirical results, including the results of an ARPA 31 HIDDEN UNDERSTANDING MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE Scott Miller College of Computer Science Northeastern University Boston,...

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... Automatic Acquisition of English Topic Signatures Based on a Second Language Xinglong Wang Department of Informatics University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK xw20@sussex.ac.uk Abstract We ... Proceedings of the 16 th Conference of the Amer- ican Association of Artificial Intelligence. Rada Mihalcea. 2003. The role of non-ambiguous words in natural language disambiguation. In Pro- ceedings of ... quantities of high quality 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...

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... efficiency of parameter-setting acquisition models. We have recently run experiments of seven parameter-setting (P&P) models of acquisition on the domain. What follows is a brief discussion of ... resource for 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 ... 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...

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... instances of complete natural language interfaces which comprise beth syntactic and semantic components. As such they are potential models for the development of interfaces to new types of software ... Warren and Pereira (1982) inter a//a. 245 Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions William J.Black, Department of Computation, UMIST, PO Box 88, Sackville ... avoid the general theoretical problem of what a semantics of natural language should consist of by an operational approach in which the propositional content of a sentence is represented by a...

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... ignored in the for- mal studies of language acquisition. In the rest of this section, I show that if this condition is taken se- riously, previous models of language acquisition have difficulties ... population of grammars Learning, including language acquisition, can be characterized as a sequence of states in which the learner moves from one state to another. Transfor- mational models of language ... Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 charles@ai, mit. edu Abstract This paper argues that developmental patterns in child language be taken seriously in computational models of language acquisition, ...

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... con- tents (e.g., a pair of a crime report and the arrest 355 Table 1: Statistics of # of Days, Articles, and Article Sizes Site Total # of Days Total # of of Articles Average # of Articles per Day Average ... with the help of cross -language retrieval of relevant texts is quite effective in improving the performance of precise estimation of bilingual term correspondences. 2 Acquisition of Bilingual ... used. 3 Acquisition of Bilingual Term Correspondences from Cross- Lingually Relevant Texts 3.1 Cross -Language Retrieval of Rele- vant News Articles This section gives the overview of our framework of...

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... 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 1.3 Statement of the problem ... second language. Second language acquisition builds on first language skills. In the opinion of Krashen, (1997: 1) ”…literacy developed in the primary language, transfers to the second language . ... 12), acquisition of language means the gradual development of ability in a language by using it naturally in communicative situations. Learning a second language therefore, means the process of...

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... intersection of two matricible languages is again a matricible language. Proof. This is a direct consequence of the con- siderations in Section 6 together with the observa- tion, that the new set of acceptance ... (non-context-free) language {a m b m c m | m > 0}. The following properties of matrix grammars and matricible language are straightforward. Proposition 2 All languages characterized by a set of linear ... underlying word space models; e.g., the models of Widdows (2008) and Giesbrecht (2009) feature dimensionality reduction while that of Mitchell and Lapata (2008) does not. In the light of these findings,...

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... Linguistics The use of formal language models in the typology of the morphology of Amerindian languages Andr ´ es Osvaldo Porta Universidad de Buenos Aires hugporta@yahoo.com.ar Abstract The aim of this ... some preliminary results of an investigation in course on the typology of the morphol- ogy of the native South American lan- guages from the point of view of the for- mal language theory. With this ... examples of de- scriptions of two Aboriginal languages fi- nite verb forms morphology: Argentinean Quechua (quichua santiague˜no) and Toba. The description of the morphology of the finite verb forms of...

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... 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, ... 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 functionality of ... moreover, in- clude the knowledge of situated language use. Appearance of the features at the external nodes of the lexical items greatly facilitates generation of local phrases which is indispens- able...

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... SRILM tools and then converted to an FST. This allows the use of a wide set of stochastic language models (both back-off and interpolated models with several dis- counting techniques like Good-Turing, ... evalu- ation of spoken understanding models and linguis- tic studies. The corpus is composed of 1257 di- alogs, from 250 different speakers, acquired with a Wizard of Oz (WOZ) approach in the context of ... Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, pages 202–210, Athens, Greece, 30 March – 3 April 2009. c 2009 Association for Computational Linguistics Re-Ranking Models For...

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... cues to second- language learners’ listening comprehension of a videotaped lecture by a native speaker of English. A total of 42 low-intermediate and advanced learners of English as a second language ... creating zones of proximal development for second language learning. Modern Language Journal, 86, 192–203. McCafferty, S. G., & Ahmed, M. (2000). The appropriation of gestures of the abstract ... the McGurk effect. Language Learning, 46, 213–283. Hardison, D. M. (2003). Acquisition of second- language speech: Effects of visual cues, context, and talker variability. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24,...

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... display different discourse patterns in language usage compared to their second language contemporaries. The language of science can only exacerbate second language students‟ problems since it ... different from everyday language at discourse level (Parkinson, 2000). Krashen (1981) cited in Uzawa (1996) in his theories of second language learning and second language acquisition makes a case ... tools could include the use of a set of questions instead of a rubric to assess the efforts of English Second Language students. Ongoing academic support in the form of mentoring should be provided...

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