We report the results of a qualitative and quantitative lexical comparison between Bangime neighboring languages. Our indicate that status language as an isolate remains viable, speakers have had different levels contact with other Malian populations at various points throughout their history. speakers, Bangande, claim Dogon ancestry. The Bangande portray this connection to through fact ...

The present study was conducted to evaluate data driven learning (DDL) combined with Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) as an approach to improving vocabulary knowledge of Iranian postgraduates majoring in teaching English, English literature and translation. The purpose was to help language learners get familiar with DDL as a student-centered method taking advantage of a computer progr...

The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated...

The present study was conducted to evaluate data driven learning (DDL) combined with Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) as an approach to improving vocabulary knowledge of Iranian postgraduates majoring in teaching English, English literature and translation. The purpose was to help language learners get familiar with DDL as a student-centered method taking advantage of a computer progr...

Learner modeling Authentic Text ICALL First Language Acquisition Stages of First Language Acquisition Typical stages of first language acquisition: I Babies play with making sounds and around six months, typical babies begin to babble I use sequences of consonants and vowels, e.g., bababa I Quickly start learning words by first birthday I Form simple 2-word utterances by the time they turn 2 I ...

The invited talk will introduce Computer-Aided Language Processing (CALP) as an emerging area of practical interest and significance and will present experiments of several CALP applications which show that while no quality is lost, much time is saved when employing CALP tools. Computer-aided language processing: context, history and examples The past years have seen a variety of promising Natu...

ion. An abstraction is commonly viewed as the act of taking away – the formation of an idea apart from the concrete existence or specification thereof. A computer abstraction can be viewed as the result of dropping out nonessential, complicating details. An abstraction defines that which is salient to the problem solution, and in doing so, identifies the extraneous details that can be ignored i...