The tagging of discourse is important not only for natural language processing research, but for many applications in the social sciences as well. This chapter describes an evaluation of a range of different tagging techniques to automatically determine the attitude of speakers in transcribed psychiatric dialogues. It presents results in a marriage-counseling domain that classifies the attitude...

Background: A considerable amount of research has been done to explore the key factors that affect learning a second language. Among these factors are students' learning strategies, motivation, attitude, learning environment, and the age at which they are exposed to a second language. Such issues have not been explored extensively in Saudi Arabia, even though English is used as the medium of te...

The tagging of discourse is important not only for natural language processing research, but for many applications in the social sciences as well. This paper describes an evaluation of a range of different tagging techniques to automatically determine the attitude of speakers in transcribed psychiatric dialogues. It presents results in a marriage counseling domain that classifies the attitude a...

This study examines factors that determine the attitudes of learners toward a blended e-learning system (BELS) using data collected by questionnaire from a sample of 396 students involved in a BELS environment in Vietnam. A theoretical model is derived from previous studies and is analyzed and developed using structural equation modeling techniques. Several theoretical findings from previous st...

This study examines language learning strategy (LLS) use in connexion with foreign language attitude, proficiency and general school achievement among lower secondary students in Years 5 and 8 (n = 868) in Hungary. An adapted version of the Strategies Inventory for Language Learning questionnaire was used for data collection. The results showed that Hungarian students mainly engage in metacogni...

This immediately raises the question what it is exactly that can be the object of an attitude; what kind of thing is the meaning of a sentence? Attitude reports give us a nice context in which to study this question and thus have a central importance for the semantics of natural language. However, the study of propositional attitudes mainly helps us to see what meanings are not. Unfortunately i...

Attitude to language is a construct that explains linguistic behaviour in particular. It may be positive or negative as well as instrumental or integrative. It varies from favourably to unfavourably or vice-versa in language learning and acquisition, choice and use of language in different domains and hence, it is important in the question of survival and development of a particular language an...

the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the perceived social self-efficacy of the students of english and their foreign language classroom anxiety. the required data were gathered through the application of the original versions of two standard questionnaires: smith and betz’s (2000) 25-item scale of perceived social self-efficacy (spsse) and horwitz, horwitz and...