unsupervised statistical language learning
Integrating Language Learning Strategy Instruction into ESL
Ngày tải lên :
06/09/2013, 10:10
... of language
learning strategies, to highlight the relationship between strategy use and language learning
tasks, and to methodically increase students' existing repertoire of language learning ... social/affective strategies they posses to attend to
the language- learning activity. However, whereas experienced language learners can
approach language- learning problems in a systematic way and are ... instruction into language lessons?
What Are the Learning Outcomes of Strategy
Instruction?
Language learning strategy instruction is a teaching approach that aims to raise learner
awareness of learning...
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Personalizing Language Learning in Large Classes(motivation)
Ngày tải lên :
06/09/2013, 10:10
... choice of topic and information learned are more important in their process
of learning.
Personalizing Language Learning in Large
Classes
Chao-ching Lin
As an EFL college teacher in Taiwan, ... but also to go beyond the textbooks and make learning related to the student's
life. It is very possible to create a personalized language learning environment in a big
college classroom ... "meaningful and personalized learning& quot; I was trying to help them to obtain.
An Example of How I Created Personalized Learning
Here is an example of how I created personalized learning in my college...
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Using Games to Promote Communicative Skills in Language Learning
Ngày tải lên :
06/09/2013, 10:10
... games in language- learning can be summed up in nine points.
Games
• are learner centered.
• promote communicative competence.
• create a meaningful context for language use.
• increase learning ... learning motivation.
• reduce learning anxiety.
• integrate various linguistic skills.
• encourage creative and spontaneous use of language.
• construct a cooperative learning environment.
• foster ... suitable for
reinforcement of individual language skills and easily applied in the classroom. One feature
of these games is that students with lower language ability in a team can still contribute...
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Using Presentation Software to Enhance Language Learning
Ngày tải lên :
06/09/2013, 10:10
... introduction and conclusion, reflection of
comprehension.
Language learning seems to occur most effectively when students have opportunities to use
language for real purposes. Purposeful activities ... observed
real involvement and language use resulting from focus on content rather than on language.
While creating esthetic presentations in English, students use the language productively
and ... students revise their
presentations, and it seems this revision and recycling process enhances language learning.
Thirdly, in purely oral presentations, even if the teacher gives organization guidelines,...
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Tài liệu Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment ppt
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16/01/2014, 23:20
... Response
2
General Information
The Comprehensive English Language Learning
Assessment (CELLA) is a four-skill language
proficiency assessment for English Language
Learners (ELL) students.
Testing window ... order.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Division of Bilingual Education
and World Languages
Comprehensive English Language
Learning Assessment
CELLA-Middle School
Spring 2009
22
Probing Questions
... Yvonne Lim-Petersen, Supervisor 305-995-1210
31
19
Speaking Sections
Comprehensive English Language
Learning Assessment (CELLA)
Practice and Scoring
Question #1
Rubric, page 193
Scoring...
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Tài liệu Technically Speaking: Transforming Language Learning through Virtual ... docx
Ngày tải lên :
16/01/2014, 23:20
... technology in second
language learning. In H. Byrnes (Ed.), Learning
foreign and second languages: Perspectives in research
and scholarship (pp. 209-237). New York: Modern
Language Association.
Brammerts, ... Hawai’i Second Language Teaching
and Curriculum Center.
Bush, M. D. (1997). Implementing technology for
language learning. In M. D. Bush (Ed.), Tech-
nology-enhanced language learning (pp. 287-349).
Lincolnwood, ... their own
language learning environment and thereby re-
Silke von der Emde, Jeffrey Schneider, and Markus Kötter 213
their own native language also automatically
made students’ own language learning...
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Second language learning
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05/02/2014, 22:31
... second language learning.
The importance of motivation in second language learning
Language learning is remarkably different from other kinds of learning because of its
social nature. Learning ... importance of
motivation in second language learning, (3) Types of motivation in second language
learning, (4) Literature in language teaching, (5) Literature in teaching language skills ,
(6) Folktales ... difficult process. In order to be successful, a language learner needs motivation
to continue his/her learning. Obviously, meaningful involvement in language learning
happens only when learners find...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reductions"" docx
Ngày tải lên :
19/02/2014, 19:20
... informa-
tion sources during word learning.
1 Introduction
From learning sounds to learning the meanings of
words, social interactions are extremely important
for children’s early language acquisition (Baldwin,
1993; ... are
a crucial information source for grounded language
learning.
We also showed that the importance of the differ-
ent social cues in grounded language learning can
be evaluated using “add one cue” ... California
mcfrank@Stanford.edu
Abstract
This paper uses an unsupervised model of
grounded language acquisition to study the
role that social cues play in language acqui-
sition. The input to the model consists...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: " Mining the Web for Language Learning" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
20/02/2014, 05:20
... crucial role in
language learning. Engkoo offers new methods for
the self-exploration of language based on the applied
linguistic theories of learning as discovery” and
Data-Driven Learning (DDL) ... examining extracting language
knowledge from the real-time web for translation in
news scenarios. Additionally, we are actively min-
ing other language pairs to build a multi -language
learning system.
Acknowledgments
We ... translation or language learning,
losing out on synergy that can reduce inefficiencies
in the user experience.
This paper presents Engkoo, a system for explor-
ing and learning language. Different...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Reading Level Assessment Using Support Vector Machines and Statistical Language Models" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
20/02/2014, 15:20
... relative to
each other.
4.1 Statistical Language Models
Statistical LMs predict the probability that a partic-
ular word sequence will occur. The most commonly
used statistical language model is the ... using statistical language models.
In this paper, we also use support vector
machines to combine features from tradi-
tional reading level measures, statistical
language models, and other language ... and Good-
man, 1999). We used the SRI Language Modeling
Toolkit (Stolcke, 2002) for language model training.
Our first set of classifiers consists of one n-gram
language model per class c in the set...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Japanese OCR Error Correction using Character Shape Similarity and Statistical Language Model " pptx
Ngày tải lên :
20/02/2014, 18:20
... zero-frequency problem. Al-
though it has been studied in many areas such
as speech recognition, statistical language modeling
and text compression, no previous work has exam-
ined on the smoothing ... times is c/(n + r).
923
Japanese OCR Error Correction using Character Shape
Similarity and Statistical Language Model
Masaaki NAGATA
NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories
1-1 ... novel OCR error correction method
for languages without word delimiters that have a
large character set, such as Japanese and Chinese.
It consists of a statistical OCR model, an approxi-
mate...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Generating statistical language models from interpretation grammars in dialogue systems" potx
Ngày tải lên :
22/02/2014, 02:20
... Two decades of statistical language
modeling: Where do we go from here? In Proceed-
ings of IEEE:88(8).
Rosenfeld R. 2000. Incorporating Linguistic Structure
into Statistical Language Models. ... comparison of in-
grammar recognition performance.
3 Language modelling
To generate the different trigram language models
we used the SRI language modelling toolkit (Stol-
cke, 2002) with Good-Turing ... modelling the
same language as the Nuance grammar, gives such
an important gain in performance that it lowers
the WER with 22%. We used the Chi-square test
of significance to statistically compare...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning" potx
Ngày tải lên :
08/03/2014, 02:21
... generalization model), is
the language of the background knowledge,
is
the language of the (positive and negative) exam-
ples, and is the hypothesis language. The gen-
eral ILP -learning problem is undecidable. ... difficult than learning syntax alone. In for-
mal grammar learning theory it has been shown that
learning from “good examples,” or representative
examples, is more powerful than learning from ... are made con-
stants).
The language of examples, are syntagmas
of the representative sublanguage, which are
ground atoms. We only have positive examples.
The hypothesis language, , is a LWFG lat-
tice...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
08/03/2014, 04:22
... a general software library
for language modeling, the GRM Library, that includes
many other text and grammar processing functionalities.
1 Motivation
Statistical language models are crucial components ... described to construct
a language model based on a weighted automaton. When
, the language defined by the classes, is
a code, the transducer is unambiguous.
Denote now by the language model constructed
from ... of
many modern natural language processing systems such
as speech recognition, information extraction, machine
translation, or document classification. In all cases, a
language model is used in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning" doc
Ngày tải lên :
08/03/2014, 05:20
... Database
Retrieval in a Learning Environment for
Japanese as Second Language ”, Proceedings
of AIED ’97, pp.247-254.
Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for
Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning
Jun’ichi ... recent classroom of second language
learning, communicative approach(H.G. Wid-
dowson, 1977) is promoted in which it mat-
ters for the students to become aware of the
language use, i.e. the functionality ... Chicago Press.
M.Nagao ( 1996 ) : “ Natural Language Process-
ing ”,Iwanami-Shoten.
V. M. Holland, J. D. Kaplan, M. R. Sams ( 1995
): “ Intelligent Language Tutors – Theory
Shaping Technology...
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