Second Language Acquisition

This paper presents the Natural Language Processing-based linguistic analysis tool that we have developed for Japanese as a Second Language teachers. This program, Zero De- tector (ZD), aims to promote …...

We developed three systems based on automatic paraphrasing techniques to help En- glish learners and English-language beginners. One system extracts personal error patterns in the user’s English usage. The second …...

. Since Talmy (2000 a&b) introduced his linguistic typology based on event conflation, it has been the source of much debate and ongoing research. One area that can particularly benefit …...

. This paper investigates the developmental process through which L2 learners acquire two „imperfective‟ aspect markers in Korean, -ko iss- (progressive and resultative) and -a iss- (resultative) which attempts to …...

AbstractCollocations play a significant role in second language acquisition. In order to be able to offer efficient support to learners, an NLP-based CALL environment for learning collocations should be based …...

. Cognitive linguists contend that learners’ awareness of motivations is the key in not only second language acquisition but also figurative language learning. Two cognitive-oriented methods are proposed to raise …...

We demonstrate how data-driven ap- proaches to learner corpora can support Second Language Acquisition research when integrated with visualisation tools. We present a visual user interface support- ing the investigation …...

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The prosody of questions in French as L2 This paper focuses on the acquisition of the tonal and prosodic structure of questions in French as a L2. Our study …...

Optimization of a tutoring system from a fixed set of data In this paper, we present a general method for optimizing a tutoring system with a target application in the …...

AbstractIn this paper we describe the language resources developed within the project “Feedback and the Acquisition of Syntax in Oral Proficiency” (FASOP), which is aimed at investigating the effectiveness of …...

AbstractThe appropriate use of collocations is a challenge for second language acquisition. However, high quality and easily accessible Chinese collocation resources are not available for both teachers and students. This …...

AbstractA fundamental question in language learning concerns the role of a speaker’s first language in second language acquisition. We present a novel methodology for studying this question: analysis of eye-movement …...

AbstractThe literature frequently addresses the differences in receptive and productive vocabulary, but grammar is often left unacknowledged in second language acquisition studies. In this paper, we used two corpora to …...

This paper presents Revita, a Web-based platform for language learning—beyond the beginner level. We anchor the presentation in a survey, where we review the literature about recent advances in the …...