Investigating the Features that Affect Cue Usage of Non-native Speakers of English
نویسندگان
چکیده
At present, the population of non-native speakers is twice that of native speakers. It is necessary to explore the text generation strategies for non-native users. However, little has been done in this field. This study investigates the features that affect the placement (where to place a cue) of because for non-native speakers. A machine learning program – C4.5 was applied to induce the classification models of the placement.
منابع مشابه
Investigating the Predominant Levels of Learning Objectives in General English Books
This study investigated nine General English books (five produced by non-native Iranian speakers and four produced by native speakers) in terms of learning objectives in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (2001). The aim was to find out which levels of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy are dominant in the books. So, the contents of the books were codified based on a coding scheme designed by Razmjoo and Kazempurf...
متن کامل"C u @ d Uni": Analysis of academic emails written by native and non-native English speakers
The present study examined email communication practices of two groups of students in Iran and the United States to uncover the probable differences between Iranian and American email communication norms. The study also aimed at investigating how power distance in academic centers influences students’ choices of communication strategies in email writing. The use of two politeness strategies nam...
متن کاملInvestigating Non-Native English Speaking Graduate Students’ Pragmatic Development in Requestive Emails
The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native English speaking students’ (NNESs) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native English speaking students (NESs) and compared learners ...
متن کاملThe Prosody of Discourse Structure and Content in the Production of Persian EFL Learners
The present research addressed the prosodic realization of global and local text structure and content in the spoken discourse data produced by Persian EFL learners. Two newspaper articles were analyzed using Rhetorical Structure Theory. Based on these analyses, the global structure in terms of hierarchical level, the local structure in terms of the relative importance of text segments and the ...
متن کاملDistribution of Prodrop Syntactic Properties in L2 English of Persian Speakers
This study set out to investigate the distribution of the syntactic properties associatedwith the prodrop parameter by Persian-speaking L2 learners of English in an attemptto examine the (un)attainability of native-like knowledge and (in)accessibility of UGin adult SLA. To do so, 92 participants were assigned into different levels of L2knowledge based on their performances on the Oxford Placeme...
متن کامل