Most research that observed online discussions compared them to either written (e.g., Hewing& Coffin, 2007) or oral discourse Joiner et al., 2008), never compiling the three modalities, and they did not provide comprehensive results regarding both form Interaction. Academic essays debates have been widely consumed in EAP classroom. However, effectiveness of synchronous forums EFL academic c...

Different methods of language teaching have tried to help EFL learners to develop good language skills based on their various perspectives. Research findings have underscored the effect of using task types in promoting language skills in terms of accuracy in written discourse. Therefore, this study set out to investigate whether there is an evidence of correct use of simple past tense (Accuracy...

Quizizz is an online assessment tool as a fun multiplayer classroom activity that allows all students to practice together with their computer, Smartphone and I Pad. The main purpose of this research was find the effect implemening quizziz in discourse Universitas Majalengka. population were semester four studens English department, samples 22 students. This belongs pre-experimental one group p...

Communicative alignment refers to adaptation to one’s communication partner. Temporal aspects of such alignment have been little explored. This paper examines temporal aspects of lexical and syntactic alignment (i.e. tendencies to use the interlocutor’s lexical items and syntactic structures) in task-oriented discourse. In particular, we investigate whether lexical and syntactic alignment incre...

In this paper we present an overview of recent developments in discourse theory and parsing under the Linguistic Discourse Model (LDM) framework, a semantic theory of discourse structure. We give a novel approach to the problem of discourse segmentation based on discourse semantics and sketch a limited but robust approach to symbolic discourse parsing based on syntactic, semantic and lexical ru...

We present a method of extracting opendomain commonsense knowledge by applying discourse parsing to a large corpus of personal stories written by Internet authors. We demonstrate the use of a linear-time, joint syntax/discourse dependency parser for this purpose, and we show how the extracted discourse relations can be used to generate opendomain textual inferences. Our evaluations of the disco...

Judges, wrote Professor Harry Jones, "are human beings, not ex officio members of the communion of saints, and they often have to hammer out by discourse decisions and doctrines that are not foreordained by anything written in the skies." 1 Yet the literature about judicial decision making generally reflects concern with "the judge" as either an ideal abstract or a specific personality. Little ...

The purpose of this study is to find a practical solution for improving writing skill among Iranian high school learners of EFL. The main question was whether pragmatics had any priority over traditional methods in improving writing or not.  Forty high school students were selected on the basis of their performance in PET (2009). In addition the following instruments were also used in this quas...

In any well-written mathematical discourse a certain amount of mathematical and meta-mathematical knowledge is presupposed and implied. We give an account on presuppositions and implicatures in mathematical discourse and describe an architecture that allows to effectively interpret them. Our approach heavily relies on proof methods that capture common patterns of argumentation in mathematical d...