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Language Learner Strategies

Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2009
Language Learner Strategies, an edited volume born from a series of meetings at the International Association of Applied Linguistics Congress in the early 2000s, provides a comprehensive overview into the past, present, and proposed future of the field of language learner strategies (LLS). Principally written for language or education researchers, this
Sera J. Hernandez
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Strategies and the Language Learner

Educazione Linguistica Language Education, 2012
The active role of the learner in the language learning process has been thoroughly acknowledged in the past fifty years. The discussion on the centrality of the learner in the acquisi- tion of a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) is essentially based ...
D’Este, Claudia
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LANGUAGE TRANSFER IN LEARNER LANGUAGE

EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture, 2016
In using the foreign language they are learning, learners tend to use forms that deviate from the target language (TL) norms. The question that arises is whether these forms are the result of transfer or the result of some other causes; and if transfer does exist in learner language, whether it diminishes with the development of the learner TL ...
Warsono
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Language, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission

, 2023
This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique (Port-Louis, 1948).
Kihm, Alain, Saddour, Inès, Andorno, Cecilia, Saturno, Jacopo, Granget, Cyrille; University of Toulouse, Pallotti, Gabriele, Kihlstedt, Maria, Watorek, Marzena, Felce, Catherine, Fon Sing, Guillaume; Université Paris Cité, Granfeldt, Jonas, Repiso, Isabel; Universität Salzburg, Ågren, Malin, Trévisiol, Pascale, Rast, Rebekah, Dimroth, Christine, Leclercq, Pascale, Kriegel, Sibylle, Benazzo, Sandra   +18 more
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Language Models are Weak Learners

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36, 2023
A central notion in practical and theoretical machine learning is that of a $\textit{weak learner}$, classifiers that achieve better-than-random performance (on any given distribution over data), even by a small margin. Such weak learners form the practical basis for canonical machine learning methods such as boosting.
Hariharan Manikandan, Yiding Jiang, J. Zico Kolter   +2 more
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Phrasal Verbs in Learner English: A Corpus-based Study of Lithuanian and Polish Learners of English

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2020
Phrasal verbs, though very common in the English language, are acknowledged as difficult to acquire by non-native learners of English. The present study examines this issue focusing on two learner groups from different mother tongue backgrounds, i.e ...
Božena Garbatovič, Jonė Grigaliūnienė   +1 more
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Empowering Vietnamese EFL Learners at Tertiary Level: Investigating Factors Shaping Learner Autonomy in English Language Acquisition

Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning, 2022
This study scrutinizes the viewpoints of Vietnamese students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) regarding determinants impacting their autonomy in English language acquisition.
Thi Anh Nguyen, Tra Huong Nguyen, My Hoang Nguyen, Thuy Trut Phạm, Thao Thanh Le, Yen Hoang Phuong, Thu Thi Anh Huynh   +6 more
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Building Bridges: The Effects of Having an Adult Learner in a Language Class

Yaşadıkça Eğitim, 2023
The purpose of the study is to analyse the effects of having an adult learner in a language class. The study was conducted in a university Preparatory Class (EPC) and was carried out with 4 EPC instructors, 5 EPC students and 1 adult learner (AL).
Sinan Bataklar, Aygül Bahadır
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Learners' Languages

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2022
In "Backprop as functor", the authors show that the fundamental elements of deep learning -- gradient descent and backpropagation -- can be conceptualized as a strong monoidal functor Para(Euc)$\to$Learn from the category of parameterized Euclidean spaces to that of learners, a category developed explicitly to capture parameter update and ...
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Learner Autonomy and English Language Course Achievement Mediated by Foreign Language Learning Anxiety

Sakarya University Journal of Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine learner autonomy perceptions and English language course achievement mediated by foreign language learning anxiety. In the study, carried with 472 undergraduate students, utilizing the relational survey model, it was
Özlem Karakış
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