The lack of a sufficient amount of data tailored for a task is a well-recognized problem for many statistical NLP methods. In this paper, we explore whether data sparsity can be successfully tackled when classifying language proficiency levels in the domain of learner-written output texts. We aim at overcoming data sparsity by incorporating knowledge in the trained model from another domain con...

Due to the potential of literature to expresses both cultural values and universal human values, its study can promote internal as well as international communication. The literary reader’s creative (or rather, ‘co-creative’) role and the imaginative involvement engendered by this role encourage a dynamic interaction between reader, text and external world. Today, with the interdisciplinary out...

background: as english has increasingly become the lingua franca in science and international journals require native- like academic writing standards from nonnative researchers, there is more pressure on nonnative scholars to write their research articles more accurately and appropriately in english.this study was conducted to determine the most-occurring language-related errors which iranian ...

The intricate links between heritage/home language (HL) use and heritage identity of heritage-bilinguals are well established. Less is known about the degree to which their proficiency or acculturation contributes host identities psychological health. present study investigated this with a diverse sample heritage-bilingual students (N = 220; Mage 25.43 years) across first, ‘1.5’ (re...

This article is devoted to the research into possibilities of using electronic platforms in teaching a foreign (English) language at law school. The relevance topic confirmed by need find latest interactive forms University students state educational level due development world economic system, as well evolution system education whole.The author determines necessity online student teaching, off...

This study investigates intergroup homogeneity within high intermediate and advanced L2 writers of English from Czech, Finnish, German, and Spanish first language backgrounds. A variety of linguistic features related to lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity, and cohesion were used to compare texts written by L1 speakers of English to L2 writers of English in order to examine if L2 writin...

Word recognition in spoken language is known to be a dynamic, incremental, and continuous process. As words unfold in time, listeners activate a range of potential lexical candidates, including those that share semantic (Yee & Sedivy, 2006) and phonological (Allopenna, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 1998) features with the target word. Among the methodological techniques used to probe real-time recogni...

Fifty-nine Japanese college students of English at two different proficiency levels were evaluated for their ability to produce a speech act request in spoken role play task. Learners’ production was analyzed quantitatively by rating performance on six-point scale overall appropriateness, as well qualitatively identifying the directness linguistic expressions used requests. Results revealed sig...