Students studying foreign languages often wish to enjoy authentic foreign-language content for example, foreign-language videos and comics. Existing means of presenting this content, however, are suboptimal from the perspective of language learning. We have developed a pair of tools that aim to help learners acquire the foreign language while enjoying authentic, foreignlanguage material. One to...

Digital Learning Playground: supporting authentic learning experiences in the classroom Gwo-Dong Chen a , Nurkhamid a b , Chin-Yeh Wang c , Su-Hang Yang d , Wei-Yuan Lu e & Chih-Kai Chang f a Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan b Faculty of Engineering, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia c Research Center ...

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted on the application of an on-line human-computer dialog system with natural language (chatbot) on the teaching of foreign languages. A keywords-based human-computer dialog system makes it possible that the user could chat with the computer using a natural language, i.e. in English or in German to some extent. So an experiment has been made usi...

Dataless text classification [Chang et al., 2008] is a classification paradigm which maps documents into a given label space without requiring any annotated training data. This paper explores a crosslingual variant of this paradigm, where documents in multiple languages are classified into an English label space. We use CLESA (cross-lingual explicit semantic analysis) to embed both foreign lang...

     This project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in English as a foreign language by Iranian speakers. Results of translation and picture judgment task show although L2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in English, they were constrained by ...

The Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLCTS) helps people quickly acquire communicative skills in foreign languages and cultures. More than 20,000 learners worldwide have used TLCTS courses. TLCTS utilizes artificial intelligence technologies in multiple ways: during the authoring process, and at run time to process learner speech, interpret learner actions, control the response of...

rom diplomatic negotiation to translation of foreign communications to interpreting in conflict zones, language skills are vital to national security. Because it is sometimes difficult to predict which languages will be of strategic importance in the future, U.S. Government agencies need to select and train personnel in new languages as quickly as possible. A common strategy is to identify pers...

The aim of this study is to determine the effects acmeological-based teaching activities in foreign language lessons on learners' self-efficacy, learning motivation and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) skills. research was carried out Faculty Foreign Languages, Department Theory Practice Languages Training a university Kazakhstan 2021-2022 academic year. study, which conducte...