in an effort to expand the disciplinary discussions on transfer in l2 writing and because most studies have focused on transfer as reuse and not as an adequate adaptation of writing knowledge in new contexts, the present study as the first of its kind aimed to explore the issue of adaptive transfer in an english for general academic purposes (egap) writing course. the study thus focused on type...

although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in l2 writing research. the small number of previous studies (e.g., li, 2007; brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

This paper reports on the development of a finite state system for finding grammar errors in Swedish text written by children. The writing problems are more frequent for this group and the distribution of the error types is different from texts written by adults. The detection approach involves subtraction of automata that represent two “positive” grammars with varying degree of detail. The dif...

Breaking the Rules: Liberating Writers Through Innovative Grammar Instruction (2003) is a book on teaching English Grammar, composition, and practicing language rules efficiently in more independent individualistic sense away from old approaches of Grammar- Translation Method that have been used since ages. Edgar Schuster well-known author for his great interest studying exploring mastering str...

Rhetorical approach is a tool that can be used to analyze essay writing. Not only but also help us making an essay. By using rhetorical, the writer narrate, describe, classify, and give example. This research discusses about structure difficulties of tertiary learners in writing based on rhetorical approach. The sample this was they became source data research. Writing test as instrument Here, ...

provides a forum for the states to explore ideas and state-specific strategies, build and expand a collective knowledge base, and initiate cross-state collaborative activities that benefit each state with economies of scale and cost-efficiency. A primary focus for the New England Compact is the implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. Current Compact projects include activ...

English learning is often thought of as words, grammar and sentence patterns, or a combination foreign languages cultures. In fact, rhetoric, an writing skill, great significance to writing. Many people think that the application rhetoric in will only make article mechanical rigid. Therefore, many learners pay less attention process learning. Flexible use various rhetorical devices can more viv...

The recently published Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology does not spend a single word on computer-aided language learning (CALL). Indeed, present-day CALL systems hardly employ Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Reasons for this state of affairs are not hard to find. First of all, current language teaching methods tend to emphasize oral language skills, espe...

Explanation has become a standard feature in many expert systems today. Adapting from this work, a study was made to determine the types of explanation required in a grammar writing system and to investigate design and iimplementation issues. The first version of this explanation facility is based on a derivational history of the inferencing process, and although no supplementary knowledge is u...

Developing a Tree Adjoining Grammar which contains the information necessary for building the basic compositional semantics of sentences is a highly complex engineering task. To ensure consistency, ease of writing, of maintainance and of debugging, it is therefore important that this information be described at the appropriate level of abstraction. In the first part of this paper (sections 2 an...