Language Learners’ Acculturation Attitudes

Ethnic Identity and Acculturation of English as Second Language Learners: Implications for School Counselors

The Attitudes of Iranian EFL Learners toward Cross-Cultural Factors in Language Learning

The cultural background in language teaching has, for a number of reasons, recently moved to the foreground. Broadly speaking, there has been a shift in emphasis in course design from a pre-occupation with form to an interest in content. This article describes the results of a survey designed to elicit the views of students on what language teaching should be about. 400 students learning Englis...

Non-native Chinese language learners' attitudes towards online vision-based motion games

Learning to write Chinese characters is often thought to be a very challenging and laborious task. However, new learning tools are being designed that might reduce learners’ tedium. This study explores one such tool, an online program in which learners can learn Chinese characters through vision-based motion games. The learner’s gestures are detected by a computer webcam, which sends the messag...

The Synthesis of Language Learners

An index for an r.e. class of languages (by definition) is a procedure which generates a sequence of grammars defining the class. An index for an indexed family of languages (by definition) is a procedure which generates a sequence of decision procedures defining the family. Studied is the metaproblem of synthesizing from indices for r.e. classes and for indexed families of languages various ki...

Synthesizing Noise-Tolerant Language Learners

An index for an r.e. class of languages (by definition) generates a sequence of grammars defining the class. An index for an indexed family of languages (by definition) generates a sequence of decision procedures defining the family. F. Stephan’s model of noisy data is employed, in which, roughly, correct data crops up infinitely often, and incorrect data only finitely often. Studied, then, is ...