The growing recognition of the important role that technology plays in language learning has been reflected increasingly dynamic and productive discussions on topic second (L2) heritage (HL) instruction writing theory [...]

Abstract To complement earlier studies of writing development in the BAWE corpus successful student ( Nesi & Gardner 2012 ; Staples et al. 2016 ), we examine Systemic Functional Linguistics notion Theme as used by L2 writers across first- and third-year two distinctive discourse types: persuasive/argumentative Discursive assignments soft disciplines Experimental report hard sciences. analys...

Determining whether an author is writing in their native language (L1) or a second language (L2) is a problem that lies at the intersection of four traditional NLP tasks: native language identification, similar language identification, detecting translationese, and grammatical error correction. In general, the goal of the language learner is to improve their proficiency until their writing is i...

concept. In order to help tutors provide effective scaffolding, Aljaafreh & Lantolf (1994) attempt to catalogue some of the characteristics of effective scaffolding in an L2 context. They suggest scaffolded help needs to be offered only when needed and removed as soon as the learner is able to function independently; graduated according to the learner’s changing proficiency needs; and must be g...