Automatic analysis of syntax is one of the core problems in natural language processing. Despite significant advances in syntactic parsing of written text, the application of these techniques to spontaneous spoken language has received more limited attention. The recent explosive growth of online, accessible corpora of spoken language interactions opens up new opportunities for the development ...

The colossal time spent on learning grammatical rules of a language may still not make a learner proficient in that language. The sociolinguistics perspectives have moved to the notion that there is more to learning a language than learning about rules and grammar. Since the use of a language is seen as a social activity, the concept of ‘communicative competence’, that is, knowing what to say, ...

central to vygotsky-inspired sociocultural theory (sct) is the notion of zpd seen by sla researchers as a useful framework within which l2 teaching and learning can take place. van lier (2004) argues that the zpd could be activated in diverse proximal contexts (pcs) and is not limited to the expert-novice scenario. . this study probed whether iranian efl learners' collaborative task performance...

The article deals with the analysis of content professionally oriented teaching foreign languages to students non-linguistic specialities at higher educational establishments. It has been proved a language includes following: spheres communicative activity, topics and situations, linguistic acts material which take into account professional development students; (phonetic, lexical, grammatical ...

This study examined how school-aged children process different grammatical categories. Event-related brain potentials elicited by words in visually presented sentences were analyzed according to seven grammatical categories with naturally varying characteristics of linguistic functions, semantic features, and quantitative attributes of length and frequency. The categories included nouns, adject...

In English teaching, there has been a dichotomy between language and literature. Literature is sometimes perceived as isolated from language. Teachers of are reluctant to teach literature feeling that they do not possess the competence in feel similar reluctance due perception master grammar adequately. This article tries find possible way teaching grammatical aspects through literary works by ...

While recent changes in Machine Translation state-of-the-art brought translation quality a step further, it is regularly acknowledged that the standard automatic metrics do not provide enough insights to fully measure the impact of neural models. This paper proposes a new type of evaluation focused specifically on the morphological competence of a system with respect to various grammatical phen...