Dr. Stephen Krashen answers questions on The Comprehension Hypothesis Extended

The Comprehension Hypothesis Today: An Interview with Stephen Krashen

The problem of second language acquisition and its true nature is a controversial issue in second language teaching. Different camps propose different methods to approach the very nature of second language acquisition. Among these, Stephen Krashen and his advocates raised the issue of implicit second language teaching and the prominence of input that are expounded in the present article. In so ...

Diagnosing Meaning Errors in Short Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions

A common focus of systems in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) is to provide immediate feedback to language learners working on exercises. Most of this research has focused on providing feedback on the form of the learner input. Foreign language practice and second language acquisition research, on the other hand, emphasizes the importance of exercises that require the lea...

Evaluating Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions in Context

Ramon Ziai1, Niels Ott1, Detmar Meurers2 1Sonderforschungsbereich 833, 2Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen . .Research Questions . • What linguistic representations can be used robustly and efficiently in an automatic meaning comparison? • What is the role of context and how can we utilize knowledge about it in comparing meaning automatically? Context heremeans questions and r...

Metal-on-Metal: Questions & Answers

on the effects of pictorial clues on the efl learners listening comprehension development

the following null hypothesis was proposed: there is no significant difference between the efl students listening comprehension development receiving pictorial cues and those receiving no cuse. to test the null hypothesis, 52 male and femal freshmen students of medicine studing at iran university of medical scinces were randomly selected from a total population of 72 students. to ensure that th...