The present article focuses on the presentation of a proposal for definition concepts used in our learning model virtual environments referred as competencies and outcomes, based an analysis existing bibliography English, Spanish Russian experience accumulated during 7 years work this modality.

We describe a “distant annotation” method where we mark up the semantic tense, event type, and modality of Chinese events via a word-aligned parallel corpus. We first map Chinese verbs to their English counterparts via word alignment, and then annotate the resulting English text spans with coarse-grained categories for semantic tense, event type, and modality that we believe apply to both Engli...

This study investigates the effectiveness of three high variability training paradigms in training 42 speakers of American English to correctly perceive and produce Spanish intervocalic /d, Q, r/. Since Spanish spirantization and English flapping both affect /d/ intervocalically, the acquisition of the /d/-/Q/ contrast proves difficult for English learners of Spanish. The acquisition of the tri...

This study investigates the effectiveness of three high variability training paradigms in training 42 speakers of American English to correctly perceive and produce Spanish intervocalic /d, r, r/. Since Spanish spirantization and English flapping both affect /d/ intervocalically, the acquisition of the /d/-/r/ contrast proves difficult for English learners of Spanish. The acquisition of the tri...