Improving Learner Performance in Producing Grammatical Structures

improving learner performance in producing grammatical structures

this experimental study examined the effectiveness of using focused and unfocused tasks on iranianintermediate efl learners’ performance in producing noun, adjective, and adverb clauses. in addition,the aim of this study was to explore the effects of form-focused instruction and the feedback studentsreceived from their teacher after doing focused grammar tasks. data consisted of the scores ofth...

Grammatical Structures and Logical Deductions

Learnersourcing: Improving Learning with Collective Learner Activity

Millions of learners today are watching videos on online platforms, such as Khan Academy, YouTube, Coursera, and edX, to take courses and master new skills. But existing video interfaces are not designed to support learning, with limited interactivity and lack of information about learners’ engagement and content. Making these improvements requires deep semantic information about video that eve...

Network Data Modeling via Grammatical Structures

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Grammatical structures for word-level sentiment detection

Existing work in fine-grained sentiment analysis focuses on sentences and phrases but ignores the contribution of individual words and their grammatical connections. This is because of a lack of both (1) annotated data at the word level and (2) algorithms that can leverage syntactic information in a principled way. We address the first need by annotating articles from the information technology...

Grammatical Competence and Parsing Performance

Much psycholinguistic experimentation in recent years has been concerned with the nature of the human processes that give rise to the difficulties associated with sentences such as The author read the review smiled and Whilst he was writing the review flowed onto the page. The problem, of course, is that language is ambiguous, and these examples illustrate that in the face of local ambiguity, t...