importance of english language learning ppt

... 2 General Information  The Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) is a four-skill language proficiency assessment for English Language Learners (ELL) students.  Testing ... interpretation of what is shown in the pictures, regardless of retell order. Miami-Dade County Public Schools Division of Bilingual Education and World Languages Comprehensive English Language Learning ... understanding of English ã is not comprehensible in English NR No Response 7 After Testing  Collect, count and return all test materials to the test chairperson at the end of the day.  Report...

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... evaluation of syn- tactic complexity of non-native speech. Thus, it has been demonstrated that NLP tech- niques can compute existing scores of language pro- ficiency. However, the definition of first -language developmental ... stan- dard measures of language development: (i) MLU, a measure of utterance length, (ii) mean depth of de- pendency parse trees, a measure of syntactic com- plexity similar to that of Yngve (1960), ... The acquisition of regular and irreg- ular past tense forms. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16(5):589–600. S.H. Long and R.W. Channell. 2001. Accuracy of four language analysis...

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... Practice of English Language Teaching deals specifically with the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is not focused especially on English as a Second Language (ESL) although much of ... users of a language are proficient in a range of language skills, though not all of them have the same range of sub-skills. It will be our responsibility to see that the students' language ... subconscious knowledge of language use, and of language as discourse. Communicative competence involves not just language competence (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) but also a knowledge of how language is used...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 11:15

... academic discourse, such as in the delivery of an oral presentation. STANDARD 2: English language learners will speak in English for a variety of basic interpersonal and academic purposes, ... their denotative meaning , such as, “Break a leg!” STANDARD 2: English language learners will speak in English for a variety of basic interpersonal and academic purposes, with fluency, using ... speaking in a variety of situations, such as, “I’ll have a half of this sandwich.” b. Speak with a moderate yet non- native degree of fluency on a variety of social and academic...

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... published studies of the English literacy of children in Canada who are English language learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read- ing development of ELLs and characteristics of reading ... experienced in one language will be experienced in other languages. LIPKA , SIEGEL, AND VUKOVIC: LITERACY SKILLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS 43 with measures of English rhyme detection and English phoneme ... development of English language skills in ELLs from different language backgrounds should include a focus on transfer between the first and second languages, the special characteristics of each language...

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... determination of English- language learner status should be based on measured proficiency in English. He has found that it is not often done this way, in part because there are few tests of English proficiency ... identification of English- language learners. He has found that the typical practice is to classify students as English- language learners if their proficiency in English is limited for the purposes of classroom ... Elliott, professor at the University of Wisconsin; Gerald Tindal, professor at the University of Oregon; Jamal Abedi, adjunct professor at the UCLA Gradu- ate School of Education and director of technical...

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... of an English word. n is the introduced length of an English sentence. ).,|( CJ mlijd k In the above equation, we assume that the po- sition probability is independent of the position of ... probability for the English- Japanese alignment. 4.3 Distortion Probability in Model 3 With the English language as a pivot language, we calculate the distortion probability of model 3. For ... alignment approach for languages with scarce resources using bilin- gual corpora of other language pairs. To perform word alignment between languages L1 and L2, we introduce a pivot language L3 and...

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... consists of the following 4 elements: ã Selection of application domain. ã Development of a manually-bracketed corpus (tree- bank) of the domain. ã Creation of a grammar with a large coverage of ... broad but not unrestricted range of sentence types and the availability of large corpora of computer manuals. We amassed a corpus of 40 million words, consisting of several hundred computer manuals. ... incorrect, since two of its part -of- speech labels and one of its bracket labels differ from those of the treebank parse. Grammar writing and statistical estimation: The task of developing the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... variety of needs of English were often “on call” for the variety of needs of English were often “on call” for the variety of needs of English were often “on call” for the variety of needs of English ... assess the English language profi ciency of all California’s English language language profi ciency of all California’s English language language profi ciency of all California’s English language ... teaching of English language learners. improve their teaching of English language learners. improve their teaching of English language learners.  eir top choices included second language...

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... algorithm, describing it as a generalization of EM with certain desir- able properties, most notably the gradual increase of difficulty of learning and the ease of imple- mentation for NLP models. We ... Statistical Language Learning. MIT Press. M. Collins and Y. Singer. 1999. Unsupervised models for named-entity classification. In Proc. of EMNLP. T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas. 1991. Elements of Information Theory. ... variants. In M. I. Jordan, editor, Learning in Graphical Models. Kluwer. F. C. N. Pereira, N. Tishby, and L. Lee. 1993. Distributional clustering of English words. In Proc. of ACL. A. Rao and K. Rose....

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... developing cognitively plausible models of human language processing. Developing computational models is of scientific importance in so far as models are im- plemented theories: models of language process- ing ... studies hu- man language processing, as a source of informa- tion about the design of efficient language pro- cessing systems. Indeed, psycholinguists have un- covered an impressive array of relevant ... computational linguists are often not aware of this literature, and results about human language processing rarely inform the design, implementation, or evaluation of artifi- cial language processing...

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... 63 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the ACL, pages 58–65, Ann Arbor, June 2005. c 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics Empirically-based Control of Natural Language Generation ... behaviour of a natural lan- guage generation system by correlating in- ternal decisions taken during free generation of a wide range of texts with the surface sty- listic characteristics of the ... controlled during the generation of short medical in- formation texts. 1 Introduction This paper 1 is concerned with the problem of con- trolling the output of natural language generation (NLG)...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

... the most inter- esting aspect of which is a model of the acquisi- tion of a second language. This model (instan- tiated with information from the ASL /English language model) is used to highlight ... nent of an intelligent tutoring system that is designed to help foreign language speakers learn standard English. The system models the gram- mar of the learner, with this instantiation of the ... component of the ICICLE (Interactive Com- puter Identification and Correction of Language Errors) system. The system is designed to be a tutorial system for helping second -language (L2) learners of...

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