Learning to construct verbs in Navajo and Quechua.

Learning the meaning of verbs: insights from Quechua

A resource-light approach to learning verb valencies

Here we describe a work-in-progress approach for learning valencies of verbs in a morphologically rich language using only a morphological analyzer and an unannotated corpus. We will compare the results from applying this approach to an unannotated Arabic corpus with those achieved by processing the same text in treebank form. The approach will then be applied to an unannotated corpus from Quec...

Learning English Auxiliary Modal Verbs by Iranian Children

Modal verbs in English are challenging to learn by speakers of other languages. The purpose of thiswas to shed light on the use of gesture in learning English modal verbs by Persian-speaking children.To achieve this, 60 elementary Iranian learners, studying at some institutes in Karaj took part in thisstudy. The participants were randomly put into one experimental group and one control group. T...

Concordance-Based Data-Driven Learning Activities and Learning English Phrasal Verbs in EFL Classrooms

In spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream EFL. The major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. Phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning English as a foreign language due to their semantic op...

The Effect of Conceptual Metaphor Awareness on Learning Phrasal Verbs by Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

The ability to comprehend and produce phrasal verbs, as lexical chunks or groups of words which are commonly found together, is an important part of language learning. This study investigates the effect of ‘conceptual metaphor awareness’, as a newly developed technique in Cognitive Linguistics, on learning phrasal verbs by Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To meet this objective, two intact ho...