Learning through standard English: Cognitive implications for post-pidgin/-creole speakers

Adaptive Learning in Computing for Non-English Speakers

The mastery of foreign languages has become a core competency for Computing students both in the pursuit of their studies and to facilitate their future job search. The European Commission has identified CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) as a strong alternative to Language Immersion and Content-Based Instruction. CLIL refers to “educational settings where a language other than the...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

Post-focus Compression in English-Cantonese Bilingual Speakers

Post-focus compression (PFC), the lowering of fundamental frequency and intensity after focus, is previously found in English but not in Cantonese. This study examines the possible transfer of PFC between these two languages through bilingualism. It is found that out of ten bilingual EnglishCantonese speakers, eight have PFC in their English, but none has PFC in their Cantonese. This finding su...

CMU Haitian Creole-English Translation System for WMT 2011

This paper describes the statistical machine translation system submitted to the WMT11 Featured Translation Task, which involves translating Haitian Creole SMS messages into English. In our experiments we try to address the issue of noise in the training data, as well as the lack of parallel training data. Spelling normalization is applied to reduce out-of-vocabulary words in the corpus. Using ...

English and Korean Speakers’

In this study, I carried out a quasi-experimental task that attempted to examine some aspects of the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis; namely, the extent to which the grammar of one’s language affects one’s way of thinking about the experienced world. A task was designed to evaluate the influence that language operates on the mind of native English and Korean speakers in the categorization of spatial act...