Results 291 to 300 of about 668,326 (343)

Mathematics Exercise Generator

2020
Nowadays, the process of teaching and learning is changing from a traditional model in which teachers were the source of information to a model in which teachers appear as advisors who carefully observe students, assist in the selection of information by identifying their learning needs, and support students in their autonomous study.
Maria Paula Oliveira, Paula Carvalho
openaire   +2 more sources

Language Exercise Generation

International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications, 2014
This manuscript presents an approach to the automatic generation of open cloze exercises based on arbitrary English text. The exercise format is similar to the open cloze test used in Cambridge English certificate exams (FCE, CAE, CPE). The presented method also makes it possible to adjust the difficulty of the resulting exercises to better suit ...
openaire   +1 more source

SOL: an exercise in defining a language

Fundamenta Informaticae, 1979
A language for operation on a stack (SOL) is defined formally, also from the semantic point of view. The semantics is an input-output semantics which uses functions from sequences (of integers) of indefinite length to sequences (of integers) of indefinite length as models of the computation on a stack.
Maggiolo-Schettini, A., Uccella, G.
openaire   +2 more sources

Clever programming languages exercises

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 1993
Books about programming languages usually propose exercises and questions requiring little creativity from students. Most exercises do not induce deeper thoughts about characteristics of languages and constructions. The paper proposes some exercises showing new constructions under unusual viewpoints, stimulating creativity.
openaire   +1 more source

Can computers generate language learning exercises?

2023
In an era where chatbots like ChatGPT can converse or generate programming code similarly to humans, one would think that nowadays technologies should be capable of generating language learning exercises. Surprisingly enough, we are not there yet.
openaire   +1 more source

A specification language for static analysis of student exercises

2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2008
In this paper we use formal software engineering techniques to support one of the most difficult steps in software engineering: learning to use a programming language. In order to support numerous exercises of a large number of students some automatic support for checking the solutions and providing hints for the occurrence of erroneous code fragments ...
Goedicke, Michael, Köllmann, Carsten
openaire   +2 more sources

Probing a Short Story with Language Exercises

Foreign Language Annals, 1981
ABSTRACT In advanced high school classes, the Vocabulary‐in‐Context and the Question‐and‐Answer exercises illustrated in this article are used to enhance the reading and understanding of literary texts. The Vocabulary‐in‐Context exercise begins with activities in vocabulary building and comprehension and continues with an exercise on reading enrichment.
openaire   +1 more source

Adding classes to the C language: An exercise in language evolution

Software: Practice and Experience, 1983
AbstractThe C language is a fine tool for writing compact and efficient programs. It is relatively easy to produce good compilers for, and the number of tools available for supporting program‐ ming in C is large, especially in its ‘home environment’, the UNM system.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Fallacy of the Natural Language Exercise

The German Quarterly, 1945
SOME years ago, one of my students, upon being asked why the verb was at the end of the clause, replied that the past perfect tense required the verb in that position. Of course, one whose mind worked in this way was far from brilliant; and yet he was not altogether to blame for his answer.
openaire   +1 more source

The Language of the Other: Testimonial Exercises

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2010
“Mon Dieu! quel succès!” such was the response of the Moroccan novelist, poet, and sociologist AbdelkéBir Khatibi (1938–2009) when he learned that his 1974 study of the “intersemiotics” of the Islamic body, La blessure du nom propre (“The Wound of the Proper Name”), which dealt, in part, with the monotheistic interdiction against tattoos, had inspired ...
openaire   +1 more source