... study, therefore, hopes to find out whether there exists a mutual set of languagelearning strategies among these students and whether there appears a relationship between their languagelearning ... Olga, 2003) define learning strategies as the different ways in which learners try to understand the grammar, meanings and uses, and other aspects of thelanguage they are learning (p.9) Some ... between proficiency andlanguagelearning strategy use in Vietnam with that in other countries For the four main reasons, further research into thelanguagelearning strategy use of language learners...
... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Frequency of languagelearning strategy use 36 4.2 The correlation between students’ languagelearning strategies and their English proficiency 46 4.3 Key strategies and ... C (2003), Languagelearning strategy use and proficiency: The relationship between patterns of reported languagelearning strategies (LLS) use by speakers of other languages (SOL) and proficiency ... Foundations Studies, AIS St Helens, Auckland, New Zealand, pp 1-25 Hismaoglu, M (2000), Languagelearning strategies in foreign languagelearningand teaching, The Interner TESL Journal, (8) Hsiao,...
... researcher will present the rationale of the study, the objectives, the scope, the methods, the significance, andthe organization of the study Statement of the problem and rationale of the study With ... as well as learning strategy uses and to examine whether there are any significant links between languagelearning motivations andthe choice of languagelearning strategies Moreover, the research ... initiate L2 learningand later the driving force to sustain the long and often tedious learning process” Although these opinions are not exactly the same, they all show that motivation refers to the...
... of their crucial role in languagelearning Engkoo offers new methods for the self-exploration of language based on the applied linguistic theories of learning as discovery” and Data-Driven Learning ... translation and so on 3.2 Main Components Now we present the basic components of Engkoo, namely: 1) the crawler, 2) the extractor, 3) the filter, 4) the classifiers, 5) the SMT systems, and 6) the indexer ... maintained and updated after each round of the mining process The second layer consists of the extractor, the filter, the classifiers andthe readability evaluator, which are applied sequentially The...
... concordance is kept current and relevant to the To make these up to date and relevant The bilingual texts that go into TotalRecall must be rearranged and structured We describe the main steps below: ... article from files and put them into the database, we need to segment articles into sentences and align them into pairs of mutual translation While the length-based approach (Church and Gale 1991) ... which will record the users’ query behavior and their background We could then analyze the data and find useful information for future research Acknowledgement We acknowledge the support for this...
... Agreeably, all the types of learning strategies are useful and necessary in thelanguagelearning process However, if one makes thelanguage competence the main focal aim, then the cognitive strategies ... verifying or clarifying their understanding of the new language They seek confirmation of their understanding of thelanguage - Guessing/Inductive inferencing: using the previously obtained linguistic ... they have in mind After they understand about the strategy, they will experiment it with the reading text of the lesson with the help and encouragement from the teacher The strategy should be...
... instability in the Middle East, to the natural disaster in Japan or the debt situation in the European countries and raising the ceiling debt in the United States, high unemployment Therefore, the reduction ... department, the board of directors andthe chief administrative department mainly conducts marketing activities They go to the schools andthe companies to introduce the products The company ... published in any other work The data published in my paper is taken from the research, and statements from the article of organizations and individuals consulted and used as prescribed In the process...
... movements around the world The third hypothesis, the hybridity hypothesis, is based on the thesis that there is no pure or authentic culture distinct from others and claims the need for a synthesis of ... hypothesis of language use andlearning 2.3 English Language Use and Learning: Towards a Hybridity Hypothesis Taking into account the spread of English in Continental Europe andthe aim of the ... with other speakers who are members of different speech communities And in my understanding, the focus is here on language use rather than on language development and acquisition and on the socio-pragmatic...
... learning, their attitudes toward the class andthe subject, the atmosphere andthe outcome Aims of the study The survey on the first-year students‟ English languagelearning style preferences at ... learning styles in a language class andthe teaching styles of teachers with negative effects on the quality of students‟ outcome and on their attitudes toward the class andthe subjects 12 The ... feedback and error correction, andthe importance of understanding learning style 3.1 Students’ interest in learning English The answers for the first andthe second question show that all of the...
... given only the names andthe home town of two pairs of mothers and daughters in the UK and then he searched online for information that they had shared in social media One mother and daughter ... Arrange the words in the correct order Give student pairs/groups the cut-up quotation below and ask them to order it to form the original quotation Show the quotation on the whiteboard and ask them ... 2014? Spider-Man Watch the video and answer the question? Can you remember any of the buildings or landmarks that you saw in the video? These include the Acropolis in Greece, the Eiffel Tower in...
... which are related to the components (factors) of writing, the model of using CLIL in language teaching and learning, the focus of using CLIL in teaching andlearning language, andthe contextual setting ... Eliminates the - Assume the first language - writing’s process Disadvantages - Ignores the (L1) andthe rhetorical second understanding of texts social language (L2) similar, and - context of the texts ... achieve the goal of learningthelanguage [ ] To learn second language is seen as referring to the extent to which the individual works or strives to learn the 26 language because of the desire...
... By following the current national language policy that only recognizes and promotes Setswana and English at the expense of the other languages that exist in the country, the adult language program ... maintains the hegemony andthe gap between the poor andthe rich, the major and minority groups In order to redress poverty the adult education program needs to be aware of the social functions of language ... Setswana and English contributes to an assimilation of these groups into Setswana, killing their identities and ignoring the knowledge and experience embodied in their native languages and cultures The...
... effectively However, in the thesis, the researcher wants to find out the attitudes, as well as the cultural awareness in teaching andlearning spoken English of the teachers andthe students of 10 ... of paper Language expresses, embodies, and symbolizes cultural reality and in return cultural knowledge makes language alive Therefore, they co-exist and support each other The idea of the world ... teaching andlearning language. ” (Eli Hinkel, 1999) In fact, language is part of a culture; language is deeply embedded in a culture; languageand culture cannot be separated, and we cannot teach a language...
... trainers/educators, and learners) first to understand the structure of the brain and how it works They must then identify personal strengths and areas for improvement related to the theoretical concepts and ... HOW LEARNING OCCURS The term learning is often misused when related to the training of adults andthe education of children True adult learning environments focus on the participant and not the ... brain-compatible learning on the Internet Also, attend conferences and workshops and read books and articles on the topic, such as those listed in the Resources for Trainers section in the appendices ● THE...
... wall on the left is occupied by the bed Then, on the wall next to the bed there is a big 38 closet with two shelves and space to hang clothes It is next to the door On the right hand wall there ... four shelves In the farther left corner …(5) the room, there is a chest of drawers The rest of the short wall on the left is occupied by the bed Then, on the wall …(6) the bed there is a big closet ... placed The rest of the short wall on the left is occupied by the bed As you walk through the door, you see the desk on the right side of the long wall Then, on the wall next to the bed there is...
... equally to each of them The only link between the representation andthe theorem is the term ^ (t) The theorem states that the expected number of instances of any schema at the next time-step ... problemspecific and representation-specific operators, hybridisation with other search techniques, the handling of constraints, the interpretation of the schema theorem, the meaning of genes andthe efficacy ... that the edges rather than the vertices of the graph are central to the TSP While there might be some argument as to whether or not the edges should be taken to be directed, the symmetry of the...
... we use the 19 other folds to construct a language model and then score the utterance in this fold with that language model The largest widely-available corpus for language modelling is the Web ... from the external language models by defining a reranker feature for each external language model The value of this feature is the log probability assigned by thelanguage model to the candidate ... feature is the log of the “figure of merit” used to guide search in the noisy channel model when it is producing the 25-best list for the reranker The log figure of merit is the sum of the log language...
... (Lascarides and Asher 1993) This framework has already been successful in accounting for other phenomena on the interface between thelexiconand pragmatics, e.g Asher and Lascarides (1995) Lascarides and ... unless the bag in (5b) is one of the bags mentioned in (5a) i.e, u = Z and B = member-of For otherwise the events in (5) are too "disconnected" to support ant" rhetorical relation On the other hand ... 3[C/C'] stands for the SDRS which is the same as save that the condition C in is replaced by C' Integrating Lexical P r e f e r e n c e s and Pragmatics \Ve now extend SDRT and DICE to handle the probabilistic...