ENGLISH GRAMMAR TEACHING ENHANCEMENT: FROM RULES TO REASON-BASED APPROACH

Approach to Learning Production Rules for Grammar-Based Functional Design

This paper outlines the problem of efficiently formalizing functional design rationale in form of graph-rewriting production rules. It is argued that genetic programming provides a feasible machine learning approach to this.

A Contrastive Study of Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Approach in Teaching English Grammar

The Grammar Translation Method and the Communicative Approach have both played important roles in grammar teaching. Which is better, the Grammar Translation Method or the Communicative Approach? This paper aims to compare the controllability and feasibility of these two approaches and find out which one is more suitable for grammar teaching in Taiwan. Two classes were selected and taught by the...

A Socially Dynamic Approach to Teaching Grammar

English for Specific Purposes: Proposing an Innovative Approach to Teaching English to Medical Students

Background: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. However, at many Iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the Grammar Translation Method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. The present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching English to Medical students that ca...

An Artificial Immune System Based Approach for English Grammar Checking

Grammar checking and correction comprise of the primary problems in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Traditional approaches fall into two major categories: Rule based and Corpus based. While the former relies heavily on grammar rules the latter approach is statistical in nature. We provide a novel corpus based approach for grammar checking that uses the principles of an Artificial...