... for you).–SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPAREAND CONTRAST –72■As you go through your day, compareandcontrast things around you. Compareand contrast, for exam-ple, your current job ... (a compareandcontrast essay might tell youwhich car is better) or which savings bond to invest in(a compareandcontrast essay will show you whichbond is best for you).–SIMILARITIES AND ... essential for the compare and contrast technique. Look what happens, for example,when the writer does not discuss corresponding parts:–SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPAREAND CONTRAST –70...
... foreign and second language. Good choice and use of learning strategies would help learners become more independent and autonomous as well as improve learners’ language competence and communicative ... differences in language learning, language learning strategies, as well as gender differences in language learning strategies and give rationale for the study. Chapter two describes and justifies ... significance of language learning strategies in language teaching. Firstly, by examining the strategies used by second language learners during the language learning process, educators and researchers...
... of motivation and speaking teaching. In the chapter, the main approaches to motivation and de-motivation in foreign language teaching are discussed. The main theories of foreign language speaking ... The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.15.Gardner, RC. (1985). Social Psychology and second language learning: The roles of attitudes and motivation. London: ... studies by Rubin (1975) and Naiman et al. (1978), and drew on a number of characteristics and the qualities of the good language learners. According to them, a good language learner would:-...
... zip buzz piece price peas prizeListen and Repeat: IV. Homework: A. Use Wh-questions to rewrite the following sentences: 1. He will have bread and milk tomorrow. 2. Peter went fishing ... folk inging folk ssongongss..6.6.I’d like a pieI’d like a piecece of bread and of bread and ssome peaome peass, plea, pleasese.. Choose the word that contains the ... lesson:A.A. ACTIVITIES :ACTIVITIES : 1. Activity 1:1. Activity 1: a. Listen and a. Listen and repeat:repeat: FOR EXAMPLE:WHO ? : WHO IS HE?WHERE? :WHERE WAS HE BORN? 13245To...
... the green dress?ASSISTANT: It’s 30,000 dong LAN: And what about the violet dress?ASSISTANT: It’s 35,000 dong UNIT 9: AT HOME AND AWAY LANGUAGE FOCUS 31.How much is it ?2. Prepositions.3. ... ,…………………………………………….…… , and ……………………………… ………………. Minh: How about tomorrow?Nga: I …………………………………………………… , …………………………………… ,……………………………………… , ………………………………………… ,……………………………………………… …… , and …………………………………………… ... Stayed at Hoa’s housewill study English clean roomhelp my Mom see a movievisit my grandmother B. Ask and answer the questions with a partner, using HOW FARã- HOW FARã How far is it from....
... second language, the study of another languageand culture can only enhance their perception and understanding of other cultures. No matter what the underlying motivation to study a second language, ... inSecond Language Acquisition Jacqueline Norris-Holt This paper explores Gardner's socio-educational model and the significance of motivationas a contributing factor in second language (L2) acquisition. ... the amount of time spent studying the language and then output, expressed as linguistic performance when investigating language learning.In order to examine language learning in the Japanese context...
... 1: Getting Started - Listen and Read + Language focus 1Saturday, october 9th 2010 1. Ba and his family had a two - day trip to their home village.-> Ba and his family had a day trip ... They visited Ba’s uncle.ListeningListen and Answer the questionsLesson 1: Getting Started + Listen and ReadWe will listen to the text about Ba, Liz and family taking a day trip to the countrysideSaturday, ... wish ? Homework: - Learn the new words by heart. - Do exercise 1 (Language focus) page 28,29 - Prepare for ‘speaking + Languagee focus 2,3‘ 12 35 67 84d/ Collecting eggse/ Harvesting...
... relationships between achievement and school and familyvariables,7. to reinforce the call for high academic standards and educationalreform, and 8. to argue for system and school accountability.The ... Disabilities and English -Language Learners, Summary of a Workshop. Judith Anderson Koenig, edi-tor. Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and ... withDisabilities and English -Language LearnersSummary of a WorkshopJudith Anderson Koenig, editorBoard on Testing and AssessmentCenter for EducationDivision of Behavioral and Social Sciences and EducationNATIONAL...
... plans.precision, recall, and F1 (harmonic mean of preci-sion and recall) of these plans are shown in Table 2.Compared to Chen and Mooney, the plans producedby SGOLL has higher precision and lower recall.This ... a precision, recall, and F1of 87.07, 71.67, and 78.61, respectively for the in-ferred plans. The trained semantic parser’s preci-sion, recall, and F1 were 88.87, 58.76, and 70.74, re-spectively. ... se-mantic understanding of navigation instructions.2.1 Navigation TaskThe goal of the navigation task is to build a sys-tem that can understand free-form natural -language instructions and follow...
... Springer-Verlag.D. Jurafsky and J. Martin. 2008. Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.R. Kneser and H. Ney. 1995. Improved backing-off form-gram language modeling. The 20th ... parsing and language modeling. Computational Linguistics,27(2):249-276.S. Wang et al. 2005. Exploiting syntactic, semantic and lexical regularities in language modeling via directedMarkov random ... three linear Markovchains. We generalize Jelinek and Mercer’s originalrecursive mixing scheme (Jelinek and Mercer, 1981) and form a lattice to handle the situation where thecontext is a mixture...
... e.g. Lee and Myaeng’s (2002) genre and subject detection work and Boulis and Ostendorf’s (2005) work on featureselection for topic classification.For our LM classifiers, we followed Boulis and Ostendorf’s ... development and testsets. The dev and test sets are the same size and eachconsist of approximately 5% of the data for eachgrade level.measures. For comparison to other methods, e.g.Flesch-Kincaid and ... lists and/ or a superfi-cial representation of syntax. Our approach uses n-gram language models as a low-cost automatic ap-proximation of both syntactic and semantic analy-sis. Statistical language...
... quality photocopies, and faxes are still difficult to process and cause many errors. The accu- racy of handwritten OCR is still about 90% (Hilde- brandt and Liu, 1993), and it worsens dramatically ... 91% for magazines and introductory textbooks of science and technology. (Ito and Maruyama, 1992) used part of speech bigram model and beam search in order to get multiple candidates in their ... combinations of exactly and approximately matched words using a Viterbi-like word segmentation algorithm and a sta- tistical language model considering unknown words and non-words (Nagata,...
... contact with two languages (grammars), say, T1 and T2. Since Cl > 0 and c2 > 0, [1] entails that pl and P2 reach a stable equilibrium at the end of language acquisition; that is, language learners ... Prentice Hall. Niyogi, P. and R. Berwick (1996). A language learn- ing model for finite parameter space. Cognition 61: 162-193. Pierce, A. (1992). Languageacquisitionandand syntactic theory: ... Seidenberg, M. (1997). Languageacquisitionand use: Learning and applying probabilistic con- straints. Science 275: 1599-1604. Stolcke, A. (1994) Bayesian Learning of Probabilis- tic Language Models....