: Individual learner differences play an integral role in second language acquisition and interested researchers and practitioners cannot get a full appreciation of second language learning if they ignore these significant variables. This study investigated how willingness to communicate (WTC), learner subjectivity, and anxiety in learning the L2 correlate with Iranian students’ English pragmat...

Interacting at a distance: a critical review of the role of ICT in developing the learner–context interface in a university language programme Journal Article How to cite: Hampel, Regine and de los Arcos, Beatriz (2013). Interacting at a distance: a critical review of the role of ICT in developing the learner–context interface in a university language programme. Innovation in Language Learning ...

In this paper, we present evidence that the acquisition of the phrase structure of a natural language is possible without supervision and with a very small initial grammar. We describe a language learner that extracts distributional information from a corpus annotated with parts of speech and is able to use this extracted information to accurately parse short sentences. The phrase structure lea...

Using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to develop learner autonomy is a challenging task in the context of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). A new, double channel model for developing learner autonomy is proposed. This provides the basis for an experimental study, which investigates the impact of an autonomous learning platform (ALP). Both self-directed learning and social...

russian language, with regard to its grammar, is a language with its own special complexities, hardly found in other languages. although languages are different from each other, they have some similarities as well. the iranian learner, while learning russian, analyzes the sentences using patterns similar to his/ her native language patterns. occasionally, such native patterns cause the learner ...

In this paper, we discuss how error annotation for learner corpora should be done by explaining the state of the art of error tagging schemes in learner corpus research. Several learner corpora, including the NICT JLE (Japanese Learner English) Corpus that we have compiled are annotated with error tagsets designed by categorizing “likely” errors implied from the existing canonical grammar rules...

Opening the learner model is a process involving the learner as a collaborator in building a model of his beliefs. The interaction plays a crucial role here since it provides both the system and the learner with a medium to reflect on the learner’s beliefs. In this paper we describe a computational framework for the interactive maintenance of open learner models. It adopts some approaches from ...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

Second language acquisition research since the 90s has emphasized the importance of supporting awareness of language categories and forms, and input enhancement techniques have been proposed to make target language features more salient for the learner. We present an NLP architecture and webbased implementation providing automatic visual input enhancement for web pages. Learners freely choose t...