Using Richly Annotated Trilingual Language Resources for Acquiring Reading Skills in a Foreign Language

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  • Dragoç Ciobanu
  • Tony Hartley
  • Serge Sharoff
چکیده

In an age when demand for innovative and motivating language teaching methodologies is at a very high level, TREAT the Trilingual REAding Tutor combines the most advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques with the latest second and third language acquisition (SLA/TLA), as well as computer-assisted language learning (CALL) research in an intuitive and user-friendly environment that has been proven to help adult learners (native speakers of L1) acquire reading skills in an unknown L3 which is related to (cognate with) an L2 they know to some extent. This corpus-based methodology relies on existing linguistic resources, as well as materials that are easy to assemble, and can be adapted to support other pairs of L2-L3 related languages, as well. A small evaluation study conducted at the Leeds University Centre for Translation Studies indicates that, when using TREAT, learners feel more motivated to study an unknown L3, acquire significant linguistic knowledge of both the L3 and L2 rapidly, and increase their performance when translating from L3 into L1.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006