Grammatical competence of ESL teachers

Grammatical Competence and Parsing Performance

Much psycholinguistic experimentation in recent years has been concerned with the nature of the human processes that give rise to the difficulties associated with sentences such as The author read the review smiled and Whilst he was writing the review flowed onto the page. The problem, of course, is that language is ambiguous, and these examples illustrate that in the face of local ambiguity, t...

Computer Competence of School Teachers

Grammatical Competence Development of Nursery School Children Acquiring Persian

This qualitative study is conducted to answer four questions: First, whether there is a difference between the grammatical competence development of a group of children aged 2.6 (two years and six months) and a group of children aged 3.6 (three years and six months). Second, whether there is a significant difference between the two age groups concerning their Mean Length of Utterance (MLU). Thi...

Assessment of ESL Learners' Syntactic Competence Based on Similarity Measures

This study presents a novel method that measures English language learners’ syntactic competence towards improving automated speech scoring systems. In contrast to most previous studies which focus on the length of production units such as the mean length of clauses, we focused on capturing the differences in the distribution of morpho-syntactic features or grammatical expressions across profic...

Attitudes of Preservice Teachers Towards Teaching Deaf and ESL Students

This study explored preservice teacher attitudes towards teaching a deaf student who uses Australian Sign Language (Auslan) compared to a student who is new to Australia and speaks Polish. The participants were 200 preservice teachers in their third or fourth year of university education. A questionnaire was created to measure attitudes, and participants were also asked to list teaching strateg...