Etymological Elaboration in Chéngyǔ 成语 Teaching

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In a spoken language translation system, when the input utterance can’t be successfully parsed and translated, if the system can provide the other possible expressions of the input, it will be very helpful to improve the performance of the translation system. This paper introduces an approach to paraphrasing Chinese utterances. In this approach, an input utterance is first analyzed in terms of ...

Vocabulary Instruction Method and Specialized Reading Comprehension: Build a Bridge or Wash it away

The present study aimed to examine and compare the impact of teaching economic terms through etymological elaboration with three more conventional methods of vocabulary instruction in ESP courses in Iran, that is, teaching through contextual definitions, L1 translation, and implicit instruction on the learners' general comprehension of economic texts and their understanding of author's opinion....

Deep encoding of etymological information in TEI

In this paper we provide a systematic and comprehensive set of modeling principles for representing etymological data in digital dictionaries using TEI. The purpose is to integrate in one coherent framework both digital representations of legacy dictionaries and born-digital lexical databases that are constructed manually or semi-automatically. We provide examples from many different types of e...

Minimum Description Length Modeling of Etymological Data

On the Effects of Linguistic, Verbal, and Visual Mnemonics on Idioms Learning

Finding more effective ways of teaching second language idioms has been a long standing concern of many teaching practitioners and researchers. This study was an endeavorto explore the effects of three linguistic mnemonic devices (etymological elaboration, keyword method, and translation) on EFL learners’ recognition and recall of English idioms. To achieve the purpose of the study, ninety male...